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The blackjack game we have grown to enjoy today was called simply “21″ in North America until World War II began. John Scarne describes how the game became known as “Black Jack” in his New Complete Guide to Gambling (1961). According to Scarne, the horse-betting rooms around Evansville, Indiana, began offering payoffs of 3 to [...]

The dice used in Over & Under and craps and the little white balls on roulette wheels all behave in a random fashion every time they roll. The numbers that they generate are totally independent of each other. Contrary to what many players believe, they bear no relationship to those numbers that may have come [...]

When novice players hear the term “counting cards,” they conjure up an image of a process that, computer-like, remembers the rank of every card played. From this information mathematical calculations must be quickly made, to determine the best plays to make at any given time. Although miniaturized computers can be used successfully to this end [...]

Many casual players believe that, all other factors being equal, the odds of winning at a single-deck game are the same as in shoe games. They figure that, although more decks are used, the same relative number of cards is still involved; therefore, even for a card-counter, there is no advantage to playing in one [...]

Even those readers who are not mathematically inclined should read the first part of this chapter, which dispels the ten most common misconceptions about the game. The last half presents a variety of information and tables likely to be of more interest to those players who enjoy figuring out odds for themselves and understanding the [...]