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  2. Jerry L. Patterson - Wikipedia

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    [2] [3] [1]: 51 In 1982, a lawsuit initiated by Ken Uston prohibited the Atlantic City casinos from barring card counters but allowed the casinos to establish new blackjack rules making it much more difficult to attain an advantage in the multi-deck shoe game, except for players willing to play to the long-term. Since most of Patterson's ...

  3. Card counting - Wikipedia

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    A blackjack game in progress. Card counting is a blackjack strategy used to determine whether the player or the dealer has an advantage on the next hand. Card counters try to overcome the casino house edge by keeping a running count of high and low valued cards dealt. They generally bet more when they have an advantage and less when the dealer ...

  4. Blackjack - Wikipedia

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    Blackjack players using basic strategy lose on average less than 1% of their action over the long run, giving blackjack one of the lowest edges in the casino. The house edge for games where blackjack pays 6 to 5 instead of 3 to 2 increases by about 1.4%. Player deviations from basic strategy also increase the house edge. Dealer hits soft 17

  5. Three-card monte - Wikipedia

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    To play three-card monte, a dealer places three cards face down on a table, usually on a cardboard box that provides the ability to set up and disappear quickly. [4] The dealer shows that one of the cards is the target card, e.g., the queen of hearts, and then rearranges the cards quickly to confuse the player about which card is which.

  6. Edward O. Thorp - Wikipedia

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    Based on his achievements, Thorp was an inaugural member of the Blackjack Hall of Fame. [14] He also devised the "Thorp count", a method for calculating the likelihood of winning in certain endgame positions in backgammon. [15] Edward O. Thorp's Real Blackjack was published by Villa Crespo Software in 1990. [16]

  7. Ken Uston - Wikipedia

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    In 1979 Space Invaders became his video game of choice and, after his blackjack team made $350,000 in Atlantic City, they rented a house in California and bought a Space Invaders machine. The game appealed to him in part because of the trick of counting one's shots to get the maximum number of points for the spaceship at the top of the screen.

  8. Aces and eights (blackjack) - Wikipedia

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    The objective of blackjack is for a player to defeat the dealer by obtaining a sum as close to 21 as possible without accumulating a total that exceeds this number. [3] In blackjack, the standard rule is that if the player is dealt a pair of identically ranked initial cards, known as a pair, the player is allowed to split them into separate hands and ask for a new second card for each while ...

  9. Gambling mathematics - Wikipedia

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    The mathematics of gambling is a collection of probability applications encountered in games of chance and can get included in game theory.From a mathematical point of view, the games of chance are experiments generating various types of aleatory events, and it is possible to calculate by using the properties of probability on a finite space of possibilities.