Betting on Blackjack: A Non-Counter's Breakthrough Guide to Making Profits at the Tables

This is the first blackjack book I read, and although I've read other books and aritcles throughout the years, I keep coming back to this one. In fact I usually review it before each trip to the casino. I really don't agree with any of the poor reviews here. First of all this book is well written simply from a gramatical standpoint. It is apparent that the author has quite a bit of intelligence and experience. The bottom line as the author points out is to keep your gambling experience sane. If you follow his methods you are sure to do just that. No longer do I have those long drives home from a few hours of the casino wondering why the heck I ever decided to gamble in the first place. So many people I see come to the blackjack table play without any coherent betting strategy. They may know how to play but have no idea how to bet, and without a betting strategy to add to your basic playing strategy I don't see how you can win in the long run. Card counting may be good, but I find it too taxing for me, and I was a math minor in college. Besides with all the concentration you have to do to count cards you tend to lose sight of the other nuances of the game. For example spotting trends. While some readers may scoff at the thought, believe me, I experience it everytime I sit at a blackjack table. What do you think it is when you lose 5, 6, 7, or up to 13 hands in row? Or win the same amount in a row? You ever notice that during a paticular shoe you're losing two hands and winning the next. Believe me it happens. The author has many other peices of wisdom that has proven true in my experience. Joining the table at the right time is important. If you obseve a table and notice that all the players are being consitantly creamed by the dealer then don't join that table. Try to play with as few players as you can, and if possible, go one on one with dealer. I've found that the advice in this book work for me. I'm not getting rich or breaking the casino, but people who have a lot more money than me have spent millions of dollars trying to do that and have failed (John Daley, Charles Barkley, Gladys Knight, etc.). I've found that I win a lot more and enjoy gambling a lot more because I follow the methods and advice in this book. I've modified the method somewhat to fit my style as the author suggest, but the advice I've come to realize, I should never modify. For instance, I try never go to the table without enough money to stay in the game long enough to win. Once I reach my goal I get up and take a break even if I'm winning. I also break my gambling up into scessions as advised by the author. I don't win all the time, but since using the method and advice in this book I'm ahead of the casino. This author stresses that dicipline will be the difference between winning and losing at the casino. I difintely agree.

I've known that basic strategy alone was not the key to success at Blackjack. For the past couple of years, I began to look at the underlying patterns of wins and losses. I came up with a betting scheme that was similar to what's described in this book. This book combines sound play (basic strategy), intelligent money management, and the concept of loss recovery better than I was able to do on my own. In reference to the reviewer who talked about losing 20 some hands in a row...get a new hobby, bro.

Controversy, controversy, wow, what a varied number of reviews on this book! I have read the last two reviews on this book, actually I read them all, and just had to first respond to that last scathing review, and second, say to those last two reviewers ... "Stick to your statistics classes and leave the Gambling to folks who really understand trends and odds!" I've been trying to win consistently at Blackjack for years and finally a person has come along that really understands what happens at a Blackjack table, you can tell that this guy has been around the block when it comes to this game, I mean I saw myself in many of the stories and philosophies he lays out in the book, trust me, it's great stuff! Listen, this game will "Crush" the average player who has no idea that there is a defined playing and betting strategy that should be employed and "married" together, especially a method on how to recover from a bad streak of losses, I've been trying for years to ascertain just how to implement a successful loss recovery method and the author of this book has just answered all my hopes for a solution. The previous reviewer spent a lot of time trying to "debunk" this book based on all the supposed "Serious" statistics and standard deviations, I think he is under the impression that we are trying to hit a 1 square meter area on the moon with a "Precision Designed Slingshot", but what he has really done has shown me his real accumen at playing this game, it's got to be totally NON-EXISTENT! He made a comment that once he lost 23 times in a row; well I'm here to tell you that I lost a series of bets ... 15 to be exact (calculate the odds on that happening!), and I fully recovered all the losses and made a tidy profit in the next five bets following that unbelievable loss sequence, and certainly could have never have done that if I wasn't using the methods outlined in this book! And that is exactly what the author tries to get across in the book, recovering from long loss sequences, implementing a methodology to get you back from the "Red Zone" plus a profit. Besides, if you are playing "Double" or "Single Deck, it's very rare to lose even eight hands in a row; at any rate, the methods outlined in this book will certainly easily wind you out of even that length of a loss sequence with nice profit at the end of it! It makes me mad when folks like these fellas post reviews when they haven't really tried using what the author outlines, because if he had, clearly he would have seen that these methods do in fact WORK! I'll wager he never really even read the book all the way through. I mean the author's central theme is to back the bets down to table minimum when the cards are going against you when you are in a serious loss series, and when you start winning go into "CLB" mode and start chopping down the losses until you finally are back on top with a profit for that entire series! Geez, what is so hard to believe about that! And, he also cautions his p

This book is the best thing that has happened to me since I have read it only a short time ago I have made way over 30,000 in profit and more to come I use the methods to exact and literaly never have a losing session I highly reccomend this book to all blackjack players and the best part about it is you dont have to be a genious to use these methods they are simple betting stradegies...Good luck to all

I HAVE STUDIED EVERY BLACKJACK TECHNIQUE AVAILABLE TO EXAUSTION, AND IN TODAYS CASINO,COUNTING IS NO LONGER EFFECTIVE. I HAVE ALWAYS FELT THAT A NEGATIVE PROGRESSION OR SIMILAR TECHNIQUE IS THE ONLY WAY TO CONSISTANT WINNING. THIS BOOK HAS HELPED ME TIE TOGETHER ALL THE LOOSE INS AND IN MY FIRST 8 TRIPS USING THIS METHOD I HAVE WON 8 TIMES. MATHMATICIANS MAY TELL YOU WHY THIS WOULD NOT WORK, TAKE IT FROM A GAMBLER , YOU WILL BE SUCCESSFUL IF YOU PRACTICE THIS SYSTEM WITH AN AGRESSIVE CLB PAYBACK, I RECOMMEND 50 PERCENT AND IF A LOSS GO BACK TO W7 OR 8 UNTIL YOU GET HEALTHY. YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHAT I SAID AFTER YOU READ THIS, IF YOU HAVE THE BANKROLL AND THE ABILITY TO READ YOU WILL BE SUCCESSFUL. THANKS FOR A GREAT BOOK