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PREFACE

Itis definitelypossible to win atblaclgack-thathas been proven beyond any doubt. This book explains how to win at blackjack by counting cards. It contains a simple explanation of a powerful wimring system, the high-low. More importantly; this book explains how to win in a casino - how to win without getting kicked out. This material has been thoroughly tested in casinos throughout the world. Part of the content of this book originally appeared in Professional Blackjack. The remainder ofthis book is mostly rewrites of articles that first appeared in one or another of the newsletters: Stanford Wong's Blackjack Newsletter, Current Blackjack News, Blackjack World, . Nevada Blackjack, and Winning Gamer. (Ofthose, only Current Blackjack News is still published.) The format for much of that material is letters from readers and responses to those letters. Thanks to all the readers who sent letters to Pi Yee Press; without them, this book would not exist.

5 Here is an example. Areader asks: What doyou tell peoplethatyou do? I mean, suppose you are at a party and someone asks you what you do. Do you tell them that you play blackjack?

I have a variety ofanswers ro that question. Sometimes I tell people that I am in investments. When they follow up with "What kind ofinvestments?" I say "shortterm." I am telling the truth - my average investment lasts less than a minute. If I want to discourage further questions when someone asks me what I do, I say thatI am in insurance. Again I am not tellinga lie, because I do buy insurance when the count per deck is high enough. All the decision numbers in this book have been derived on a computer. The software you can. useto verify them, and to derive related results, is Blackjack Count Analyzer. Many people have contributed to the success ofthis book. In contrast to literarytradition, most ofthem shall remain nameless in orderthattheymaycontinue to play casino blacIgack unencumbered by recognition. I am particularly grateful to the contributions made b~ in alphabetical order: Daniel Forbes, Marvin French (also known as Marvin L. Master), Peter Giles, and Donald Schlesinger. All four ofthese people are hig~y-skilled, successful blackjack players; their words are expert opinions. These are not the only highly skilled, successful blacIgack players in the world of course; they are merely the ones who wrote the most wonperfulletters that found their way into my newsletters. All who read this book are benefiting from their contributions. AnthonyCurtisdeserves specialthanks. Heis a good friend and my best source of news about great casino giveaways. Most ofthe top money-making opportunities of chapter 7 I learned about courtesy of Curtis.

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Curtis,DonaldSchlesinger,JohnSpeer, andMichael Dalton also deserve thanks for reading a draft copy of this manuscript and suggesting changes. Schlesingeris Mr. Eagle Eye on elTors. Speer contributed many clarifications and cleverphrases, suchas"pacifythe eye in the sky" on page 71. Any remaining errors are ofcourse my responsibilit)T. Ifyou find an elTor, please tell me aboutit. I will correct it in the next printing. This book started out as a revision of Professional Blackjack, my first book on card counting. I realized quickly that I had so much material to add that the project would be more manageable ifbroken into two or more books. My plan is to incorporate the rest of Professional Blackjack into a book on advanced card counting. A related book, c