When you play a blackjack game strategically and watch it work in your favor its always a great feeling as a player, let alone readers like us who would like to use various strategies and get all the mileage we possibly can! The history of blackjack card counting dates back to 1962 when Edward O. Thorp published his first book ‘beat the dealer’, where he sketched out a few theories and emphasized on the foundation of card counting. Andy Bloch was another well-known person in the card counting business, and was part of the MIT blackjack team, who released an instructional DVD on ‘beating blackjack’. Continue reading →