Professional Blackjack

Name: Professional Blackjack
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ISBN: 9780688008185

ISBN-10: 0688008186

ISBN-13: 9780688008185

Edition: N/A

Authors: Stanford Wong

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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

Introduction	p. 15
Dealer Action on Soft 17	p. 16
"Pack" and "Deck"	p. 16
Multiple Numbers For Some Decisions	p. 17
Win Rates	p. 17
Benchmark Rules	p. 18
Generic Basic Strategy	p. 22
Calculating Basic Strategy	p. 23
Pairs	p. 24
Soft Hands	p. 25
Hard Hands	p. 28
Surrender	p. 28
Insurance	p. 29
The High-Low System	p. 30
High-Low Count	p. 31
Count Per Deck	p. 32
Estimating Your Edge	p. 34
Jumping into a Game in Progress	p. 36
Effect of Rules on Strategy	p. 36
Insurance	p. 37
Pairs	p. 38
Doubling Down	p. 40
Soft Standing	p. 42
Hard Standing	p. 43
If the Dealer Hits Soft Seventeen	p. 44
Summary Strategy Tables	p. 45
Importance of Strategy Tables	p. 45
Insurance	p. 52
A 10-Count for Insurance	p. 54
Bustout Bet	p. 56
Double Down	p. 58
Double on Any Number of Cards	p. 58
Double on Two or Three Cards	p. 59
With Multiple-Card Surrender	p. 59
With Surrender After Doubling	p. 66
Split	p. 67
Resplits	p. 68
Double Any Number of Cards	p. 68
No Hole Card	p. 80
Lose Only Original Bet to a Natural	p. 81
Lose All to a Natural	p. 81
Any 21 Ties Dealer Natural	p. 85
Surrender	p. 89
Early Surrender	p. 90
Late Surrender	p. 92
Multiple-Card Surrender	p. 94
Surrender After Doubling Down	p. 96
Second-Chance 21	p. 96
Five Cards	p. 98
Half a Bet	p. 99
Automatic Win	p. 119
Double Pay on Five-Card 21	p. 124
6-7-8 Etc	p. 125
6-7-8	p. 126
Double Pay for 6-7-8	p. 126
Triple Pay For 6-7-8	p. 130
7-7-7	p. 138
Over/Under 13	p. 142
Basic Strategy	p. 142
Single Deck	p. 143
Counting Cards	p. 145
Halves Count	p. 148
Double Exposure	p. 156
Estimating Your Edge	p. 157
Basic Strategy	p. 158
Counting Cards	p. 159
Win Rates at Double Exposure	p. 175
Finer Points	p. 183
Expected Win	p. 183
Risk	p. 189
Chance of Reaching All-Time High	p. 200
Avoid Going Broke: Use Proportional Betting	p. 201
Optimal Bet Size	p. 201
Overbetting	p. 206
Stopping Rules	p. 207
The Optimal Number of Simultaneous Hands	p. 208
All Decisions Are Approximations	p. 211
Which Counting System	p. 213
How Many Numbers To Learn	p. 215
Side Count of Aces	p. 217
Two-Card Combinations	p. 217
Resolving Toss-ups	p. 218
Quick and Accurate	p. 218
Thorp's Complete Point Count	p. 219
With Other People at the Table	p. 220
Shuffles	p. 222
New Decks Shuffled, But Not Together	p. 223
Single-Deck Shuffle Study	p. 224
Speedof Blackjack	p. 231
Search For Streakiness	p. 239
Appendix B	p. 252
Glossary	p. 334
Selected References	p. 342
Index	p. 346
Publications By Stanford Wong	p. 349
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