21 Best Books About Blackjack
We look at the 21 best books on Blackjack available today to help you with your strategies and advantage play
There are a whole host of books on the market to assist you in winning at blackjack. These range from the accessible to the incomprehensible, from the reflective meandering prose of recounting memorable events of the author’s past to the positively text-book-esque dry statement of fact.
Whichever style you believe will suit you best there is almost certainly a book on Blackjack for you that will provide you with invaluable information as you attempt to turn your blackjack six decks strategy into winnings. Many of them cover a whole host of topics and several detail numerous strategies.
So which of these tomes should you pick up at your local bookstore? Well that all depends on both what you wish to know and the style you wish to be used when someone tells you. Thankfully the variety of titles on offer means there’s something for everyone amongst our list of the 21 best books about Blackjack.
Great for beginners this somewhat overly enthusiastically titled book gives an introduction to the game that many find useful and informative.
2. Bootlegger’s 200 Proof Blackjack
This superb book details not only the basics but some of the finer points of finesse that can lead players to have an advantage at the tables.
3. Basic Blackjack
Does pretty much what it says on the tin providing blackjack tips for the newer players of the game and does a jolly good job of listing the notable variations in the game.
4. Fundamentals of “21”
With an introduction to the hi-low counting system amongst its pages this is a good introductory work about the game and how it is best played.
5. Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One
Perhaps the daddy of Blackjack books this volume turned the casino world on its head by being first to publicize a card counting system that allowed players to consistently win. Now as much an historic classic as player’s guide.
6. Professional Blackjack
In the follow up to his earlier work Mr. Wong delves deeper into the game and the blackjack strategies known as card counting without blinding the reader with science or statistics.
7. Blackjack for Blood: The Card-Counters’ Bible, and Complete Winning Guide
With detailed descriptions of the Omega II counting system and other betting strategies this book tends towards the big stake players but the examples are easily employed by those on a budget.
8. Modern Blackjack
Benefiting from being a free online book this is perhaps a must-read in that it lists some of the basic “noob errors” that Mr. Wattenberger made early on and talks about how to avoid them in two volumes
9. Blackjack Attack: Playing the Pros’ Way
This is by no means a text for beginners and tends towards the complexity of mathematical analysis and statistical awareness. If you’ve played (and counted) a while it may be for you, but if not, get a different tome.
10. Burning the Tables in Las Vegas: Keys to Success in Blackjack and In Life
Based on all time winnings perhaps one of the greatest players in the world Mr. Andersen penned this work on covering one’s counting and remaining unobtrusive in victory. Extremely useful stuff.
11. Big Book of Blackjack
If you want to know it, it’s probably in here. Listing blackjack tricks in detail alongside a good all round grounding many aspects of the game today, this also examines team play and indeed the history of the game as a whole.
12. The Theory of Blackjack: The Compleat Card Counter’s Guide to the Casino Game of 21 (6th Edition, Indexed)
A now classsic volume which examines the academic and mathematical aspects of blackjack. On that basis it is probably NOT the right book for a beginner or someone not fascinated with mathematics.
13. Blackjack Bluebook II – the simplest winning strategies ever published (2006 edition)
With an emphasis on accessibility for a variety of skill levels, this cleverly written A-to-Z resource provides some interesting twists on the run of the mill books about blackjack.
14. Knock-Out Blackjack: The Easiest Card-Counting System Ever Devised
This describes the knock-out unbalanced system of counting that is easier to employ than many of the other counting systems and nearly as powerful as the traditional hi-lo strategies.
15. Winning Blackjack for the Serious Player
This very wide ranging book that outlines numerous different strategies including counting systems for beginners and emphasizing the value of true counts in advantage play.
16. Play Blackjack Like the Pros
Having lived it Kevin has written a broad range of topics covered in good detail providing the basic player with a good grounding in blackjack tips from advantage play to team play.
17. How to play winning blackjack
Although originally published in 1980 this ebook goes into the mathematics behind basic strategy from the perspective of an expert. Many regard this as a classic text.
18. Comp City: A Guide to Free Casino Vacations, Second Edition
Not limited to Blackjack this book is a good guide to casino comp gathering and if one considers this dollar value acquisition it can be a great addition to a blackjack strategy guide.
19. Blackjack Blueprint: How to Play Like a Pro
Part-Time
Perhaps the best book on our list for those transferring from basic to more advanced strategies it is presented in a very easily read style.
20. Playing Blackjack as a Business
Basic strategy methods and systems examined in detail without theatrical additions and at least three counting systems studied in detail.
21. Blackjack: The Basic Strategy Book – 1001 Problems and Drills
A good book to have around when you’re practicing this volume gives ample scope to train yourself up in whatever strategy you’ve chosen to employ.
