Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-one

Aces and Tens amount Appendix approximate basic strategy blackjack tables burned card calculations capital card counting cent advantage Chapter cheating complete deck dealer shows dealer's up card dealing seconds dealt dollars draw or stand drawing and standing edge effect Eights example favorable situations figure Fives strategy four Aces gain gambler's ruin gambling games Gaming Control Board give the player H H H hard 16 hard standing number hard total house advantage hundred hands large bets lose loss marked cards mathematical Michael MacDougall minimum standing number minutes Nevada number of hands pair splitting peek pit boss player's advantage Player's hole cards profit ratio reader round of play ruin probability rules variations running count shuffle small bets soft 17 soft doubling soft standing number soft total soft-seventeen rule split a pair split Aces stepup Suppose system players Ten-count strategy tions top card units winning strategies