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BASIC
BLACKJACK
STANFORD WONG
Pi Yee Press
BASIC
BLACKJACK
by
Stanford Wong
Pi
Vee Press
copyright ©
1992, 1993, 1995
by
Pi
Yee Press
All rights reserved.
No
part of this book may be repro-
duced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic
or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by
any information storage and retrieval system, without
permission in writing from the publisher. Inquiries should
be addressed to Pi Yee Press, 7910 Ivanhoe
#34,
La Jolla,
CA 92037-4511.
ISBN 0-935926-19-4
Printed
in
the United States ofAmerica
345678910
cover photo: Michael McCall
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BASIC BLACKJACK
PREFACE
This manual is the most comprehensive discus-
sion of blackjack basic strategy
in
existence. Included
is advice for proper play for almost
any
rule variation
you will encounter
in
any blackjack game anywhere.
Many rules variations have appeared since 1979,
when I began publishing monthly newsletters. Every
time I learn about a new rule for blackjack, I work out
a strategy for playing against it and share the strategy
with
my
newsletter readers.
Many
of the strategies
published
in
this book first appeared in
my
newslet-
ters. Others of these strategies first appeared
in
my
long-out-of-print
Blackjack in
Asia.
Also included is the best of another out-of-print
book,
Winning Without Counting,
the first blackjack
book that explained how to
win
without counting cards.
The price of
Winning Without Counting
originally was
high ($200), but its value was even higher - particu-
larly the material on warps, the raison d'etre for the
book. Dave Douglas is the person to whom I am thank-
ful for introducing me to warps. I made a lot of money
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playing the warps at Las Vegas Club. That was the
easiest game
to
beat that I have ever found, and I am
grateful that it lasted as long as it did.
As
pit bosses at
Las Vegas Club became aware that its blackjack game
really was the most liberal
in
the world, they took a
step that stopped the giveaway: They had their dealers
stop peeking at hole cards under lOs.
Thus s_ome of the material in this book has been
published
previousl~
but
lllVariOUS
hard-to-find back
issues of newsletters and in books now out of print.
Almost all strategies in this book are calculated
by a software product I created for IBM PCs:
Blackjack
Analyzer.
You can buy this software and reproduce any
advice
in
this book.
Win rates
in
this book.are estimates based on
simulations by
Blackjack Analyzer.
At a minimum,
enough hands are simulated to bring the standard
error down to 0.03%; generally that requires twenty
million hands.
The best way to find out which casinos have the
best rules for blackjack is through
Current Blackjack
News,
a monthly newsletter published by
Pi
Yee Press.
For ordering information, write to
Pi
Yee Press, 7910
Ivanhoe #34, La Jolla, CA92037-4511 or call (619) 456-
4080.
Thanks
to
Anthony Curtis and Dave Douglas for
reading a
draft
of
this manuscript and
making
helpful
suggestions. Thanks to Donald Schlesinger and John
Speer for catching typos
in
the first printing.
In
the 1993 printing: Spooking was recognized as
illegal.
In
the 1995 printing: Nine tables were added
~d
the cover was improved.

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