Tag Archive: Card counting

Maybe you've already played a number of rounds of blackjack for the first time. Or may be you're a seasoned veteran, with years of experience under your belt. Nevertheless, both of these players would have asked themselves at some point, as to whether they could make a decent living playing professional blackjack. After all, how difficult can it be? To answer that question will require a serious amount of dedication to learning every aspect of blackjack advantage play, including counting cards.

Keith Taft was working as a teacher. And though a perfectly happy and contented family man, deep down he felt as though something was missing. One day, just by chance, he found himself sitting at a casino gaming table in Reno. Having tried various games, but finally settled on blackjack. Being of a mathematical mindset, he took home some winnings on his first outing. Considering he had never played before, this was something quite amazing. Afterwards he set about becoming a blackjack ninja.

Blackjack has certainly come a long way over the last couple of decades. Since the dawn of online casinos, games like blackjack have become increasingly popular. With the rise in use of mobile technology, it's no surprise that mobile gambling is the go-to for nearly all gamblers today. Of course, gambling via your phone is a much better experience when using iPhone blackjack apps. They are faster, more stable and offer better and more vivid colours allowing for a much better gaming experience.

The renowned blackjack player and team manager, Tommy Hyland has certainly had his fair share of hair raising moments during his card counting team career. Not just being content to count cards, back in those days, you could actually bring a tiny computer into the casino hidden on your body, and take advantage of it's computing power to allow you to place wagers at the optimum moment. Just imagine how overjoyed the casinos were to discover suck tricks.

Stanford Wong was the pen name of the blackjack author and team manager, John Ferguson. Having been interested in card games in his youth, he later was to form 2 very successful card counting blackjack teams, who would take casinos to the cleaners. But money was never his driving force. That was to better his knowledge, and he often took much less of the profits as he regarded the data collected from their adventures to be the most valuable commodity. Eventually, his identity was revealed on TV.