Avery Cardoza - Winning Casino Blackjack for the Non-Counter

His candor is refreshing in its honesty For the casual player who is not inclined to devote the time necessary for mastering a count strategy, this is the best book Ive seen of its type.

ARNOLD SNYDER

First-round member of the Blackjack Hall of Fame

Author of Blackbelt in Blackjack, Big Book of Blackjack

Ive seen all the best, and Avery Cardoza ranks as one of the greatest blackjack players in the world. This book will make any beginning player a winner.

EDWIN SILBERSTANG

Gambling legend and author of over 20 gaming books

including Winning Blackjack for Serious Players

To My Father

Cardoza Publishing is the foremost gaming and gambling publisher in the world with a library of more than 200 up-to-date and easy-to-read books and strategies. These authoritative works are written by the top experts in their fields and with more than 10,000,000 books in print, represent the best-selling and most popular gaming books anywhere.

2010 NEW EDITION!

Copyright1981, 1986, 1992, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2010 by Avery Cardoza

Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2010921133

ISBN 978-1-58042-400-4

Avery Cardoza is the foremost gambling authority in the world and best-selling author of twenty-one gambling books and advanced strategies, including How to Win at Gambling, Secrets of Winning Slots, and the classic, Winning Casino Blackjack for the Non-Counter. Millions of players have learned how to play and win money at gambling following his no-nonsense practical advice.

Cardoza began his gambling career underage in Las Vegas as a professional blackjack player beating the casinos at their own game and was soon barred from one casino after another. In 1981, when even the biggest casinos refused him play, Cardoza founded Cardoza Publishing, the foremost and largest gaming publisher in the world. Cardoza Publishing, which is the home of many of the giants in the world of gambling, has published more than 200 gaming titles and sold more than ten million books.

Though originally from Brooklyn, New York, where he is occasionally found, Cardoza has used his winnings to pursue a lifestyle of extensive traveling in exotic locales around the world.

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This new edition has greatly increased in size to reflect the latest information on winning money at blackjack and to show you how to beat blackjack games anywhere in the world! There are more questions and answers to help you understand the big picture and the nuances of beating the game of 21, more information on getting that extra edge, and more frank discussion on finding the right games to beat including ones that should be avoided.

Ive kept the same approach that has made this book a modern classic for winning at blackjack and best-seller for almost thirty years. After clearly explaining the rules, variations and how the game is played I get right to the heart of the matterhow to win money at blackjack. Winning strategies are presented three ways for you to learn. First, I show the underlying principles of the strategies and explain concepts such as stiff cards, pat cards and the ten factor.

Then, I present the strategies in mini-chart form and the thinking behind each move so that you learn why each play is made. I call this thinking process, conceptual blackjack. Finally, to make sure the winning strategies are crystal clear, I present the Cardoza Master Charts to cover the correct plays for all blackjack games wherever you may find them!

This book is not just about showing you how to be a winner, but also, how to understand the game and be a thinking player. I could have called this book the Thinking Persons Guide to Blackjack. If you understand why you should make the proper plays, then you have a great chance to make the proper plays when you need to. And that will count for money in your pocket in the long run.

This book emphasizes winning, and thats what were here to do nowwin at blackjack!

Blackjack can be beaten! Once youve finished reading this book and learned the skills presented, youll find that there will be one major difference between you and 95% of the other playersyoull be a winner at blackjack!

Ill teach you how to win without the blind memorization and boring tedium usually associated with learning blackjack. The computer-tested basic strategies are carefully explained so that every play you make is easily learned. In addition, all the winning strategies are presented in easy-to-read charts.

Youll learn how to beat the single-deck game without counting cards and how best to adjust your play for multiple-deck games whether youre a player in Las Vegas, Northern Nevada, Atlantic City, the Mississippi riverboats and Indian reservations, or youre heading for play in Europe, Asia, the Bahamas, the Caribbean, or anywhere else blackjack is found.

Youll receive a wealth of information from this book. I cover the fundamentals of casino blackjackthe rules of the game, the players options, the variations offered in casinos around the world, how to bet, casino jargon, how to play and everything else youll need to know about playing winning casino blackjack.

Not only will I teach you the skills of winning, but just as important, Ill teach you how to walk away a winner. Money management is carefully explained to insure your success as a blackjack player. I also discuss emotional control, how to minimize losses when losing, and how to let your winnings ride, so that when you lose, you lose small, and when you win, you win bigthe overall result being that you walk away a winner!

For the first time, the winning concepts that have been successfully taught at the Cardoza School of Blackjack are now presented here so that you can win without counting cards.

So read this book carefully, and youll be among those players that the casinos fear, and for good reasonyou will be a consistent winner at blackjack!

OBJECT OF THE GAME

Your object in casino blackjack is to beat the dealer. This can be achieved in two ways:

• When you have a higher total than the dealer without exceeding 21.
• When the dealers total exceeds 21 (assuming the player has not exceeded 21 first).

In casino blackjack, if the player and the dealer both hold the same total of 21 or less, the hand is a push, nobody wins.

BUSTING OR BREAKINGAUTOMATIC LOSERS

If the drawing of additional cards to the initial two cards dealt causes the point total to exceed 21, then that hand is said to be busted, an automatic loss. Busted hands should be turned up immediately. Once you have busted, your hand is lost, even if the dealer busts as well afterwards. If the dealer busts, all remaining players automatically win their bets.