It’s the stuff that gamblers’ dreams are made of. Blackjack player Don Johnson revealed in a magazine interview how he won $15 million from three Atlantic City’s casinos in about five months. Previously tightlipped about how he did it, Johnson said he played “fair and square” but he did have some favorable conditions when he […]
Month: December 2014
Macau trumps Vegas with $270 minimum bet
Las Vegas has first class shopping, dining and nightlife. But for serious gamblers, Macau holds all the aces. The city’s $45 billion casino industry is now roughly seven times bigger than Vegas, and eye-popping growth has attracted the biggest players, including Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts. Gambling in the former Portuguese outpost has been […]
Blackjack Tournament Strategy
So you’ve got a good grasp of basic blackjack strategy-you’ve studies up on your odds and strategy charts, you understand the rules of blackjack like the back of your hand and you understand how blackjack tournaments work. Where do you go from here? If you want to increase your odds of winning in the next […]
MIT Blackjack Team
“The first year I played, we returned 154 percent to our investors. That’s after paying off expenses. You try and do that on Wall Street.” – Jeff Ma, member of the MIT Blackjack Team. How did a bunch of college kids from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University become the most feared blackjack […]
Randomization
There are exactly 52 factorial (expressed in shorthand as 52!) possible orderings of the cards in a 52 card deck. In other words there are 52 × 51 × 50 × 49 × ··· × 4 × 3 × 2 × 1 possible combinations of card sequence. This is approximately 8×1067 possible orderings or specifically […]