Tournament Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
Practice Matters
Despite their illegality
Despite their illegality you will find some modern-day machinations. In 2009, an iPhone application made card counting available for mass consumption. But, remember the ramifications and think twice, perhaps three times before you pull your phone out your pocket…
Stanford Wong – the Relentless Player
Stanford Wong – the Relentless Player Also known as John Ferguson, Stanford Wong is best known for publishing the book Professional Blackjack in 1975. Wong tells the tale of having read Thorp’s Beat the Dealer in 1963 and by the tender age of 14 he was already working out his own Blackjack strategies and then double checking if his own strategies matched Thorp’s (before having even seen them). Wong later even found a way to beat the Continuous Shuffling Machines (or CSM’s). Many of Wong’s strategies are still very active today (see ‘Wonging’ above). Like some of his predecessors, Wong has made it into the Blackjack Hall of Fame.