Blackjack Hall of Fame Part 2
2006 Blackjack Hall of Fame inductee was James Grosjean. He authored “Beyond Counting” which focused on the dealer’s hole cards. Although every tactic used by James Grosjean was legal at the time, he was insulted and arrested for his practices. In retaliation, he sued Caesars Casino, Imperial Palace and Griffin Detective Agency for wrongful arrest. James Grosjean won the case forcing Griffin Detective Agency into bankruptcy. This landmark case protect the honour of professional gamblers from defamation by the casino management.
In his book “Beyond Counting”, James Grosjean explores the games in great detail to discover new ways to exploit the hidden advantage that few can see. He is one of the few blackjack professionals who has the skills to point out further advantages beyond card counting. These mathematical advantages turn the edge in favour of the players. After reading this book, you become the casino, while the casino become the player. In other words, you are playing with a small edge and at the same time the casino has to foot all the costs associated with running a casino. Unfortunately, this much sought after book is not available at your local bookstores because it is not available to the public. You must know James Grosjean or be recommended by someone in his inner circle before you can get hold of the book.
The 2007 Blackjack Hall of Fame inductee was John Chang. John Chang was the former manager of the MIT Blackjack Team. The Mickey Rosa character in the movie 21 was inspired by the true story of the MIT Blackjack Team.
Movie 21 is a 2008 American heist drama film based on the true story of the MIT Blackjack Team as told in Bringing Down the House, the best-selling book by Ben Mezrich. Movie 21 is directed by Robert Luketic. The stars are Jim Sturgess, Kevin Spacey, Laurence Fishburne, Kate Bosworth, Liza Lapira, Jacob Pitts, and Aaron Yoo. Despite some criticism over the the selection of the cast, movie 21 was a number one box office hit in the United States and Canada during its first and second weekends of release.
2008 saw four inductees. Roger Baldwin, Wilbert Eddie Cantey, Herbert Maisel and James McDermott were collectively inducted. They were also known as “The Four Horsemen of Aberdeen”. Roger Baldwin was the mastermind. While serving in the U.S. Army in the fifties, they discovered and published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association the first accurate basic strategy for Blackjack, using only desk calculators. The publication is known as “Mathematician Co-Authored Guide to Winning at Blackjack”.
Wilbert Eddie Cantey was a hardworking Army sergeant and mathematician at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland’s Harford County in the 1950s. He loved mathematical challenge. So when a private in his analytical office gave him a mathematical quiz, he accepted the challenge.
Wilbert Eddie Cantey joined Roger Baldwin, James McDermott and Herbert Maisel to figure out the best way to beat the Las Vegas casinos in blackjack. They spent thousands of hours burning the midnight oil for more than one and a half year. They researched the blackjack game using desk calculators and probability law to find a statistically winning strategy.
From their research, the mathematicians wrote a 1956 article for the Journal of the American Statistical Association, “The Optimum Strategy in Blackjack,” and in 1957 published a small book, “Playing Blackjack to Win: A New Strategy for the Game of 21,” which became one of the most widely used references.
We were going to be young rich people,” recalled Herbert Maisel, who went on to teach at Georgetown University and who remained close friends with Wilbert Eddie Cantey. “We worked out the best way to play the game. Unfortunately, we figured out we would lose in the long run.”
The colleagues, who came to be known in the gambling world as the Four Horsemen of Aberdeen, never tried to beat casino dealers to garner big bucks from gambling. But they were rewarded this year in Las Vegas for their contributions to the game.
“It was an honour, in so many ways, to be able to use mathematics to figure out the game of blackjack,” Cantey told the Las Vegas Sun, after he and his friends were inducted into the Blackjack Hall of Fame.
Cantey died at the age of 77 from complications of pancreatic cancer at Genesis Layhill Center in Silver Spring.
2009 Blackjack Hall of Fame inductee was Richard W. Munchkin.
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In “Gambling Wizards”, Richard W. Munchkin explored the minds of eight masters of the game. He interviewed them in-depth to learn how they think, how they play, and what made them successful. The interview subjects include: Billy Walters (sports betting), Chip Reese (poker), Doyle Brunson (poker), Mike Svobodny (backgammon), Stan Tomchin (backgammon and sports betting), Cathy Hulbert (blackjack and poker), Alan Woods (blackjack and horse racing), and Tommy Hyland (blackjack).
Richard W. Munchkin lives in Santa Clarita, California, with his wife Nelia and sons Nicholas and Alexander.
2010 Blackjack Hall of Fame inductee was Darryl Purpose. He was a former professional advantage player and a performing songwriter.
This famous gambler and musician did a benefit concert for a carousel at a planetarium. Besides his love for music, Darryl Purpose also believe in contributing for a good cause. As a Nederland resident and friend of Carousel of Happiness, he is pleased to support a good cause by offering music.
2011 Blackjack Hall of Fame inductee was Zeljko Ranogajec, a professional gambler from Australia, and a former blackjack professional player. Ranogajec won by two votes ahead of new nominee Bob Nersesian. Other nominees included Bill Erb, Ian Andersen, Don Schlesinger, Allan Wilson, and Jess Marcum.
Zeljko Ranogajec was one of the most prolific and innovative advantage players of all time. Starting with a few hundred dollars decades ago, his feats of winning hundreds of millions dollars in blackjack (and in other gambling ventures) have been written about in numerous publications, and he is now known as “the world’s biggest punter.”
2012 Blackjack Hall of Fame inductee was Ian Anderson.
In the mid-1970s, Ian Andersen wrote “Turning the Tables on Las Vegas”, the classic book on casino comportment. With regard to card counting, this book is out of date as you can easily find better books today. This is the first book that teaches you how not to get barred as a card counter. Indeed, this book offers enough tips to show you how to look more like a regular gambler. Anyone who count cards to win in blackjack should read this book.
As the first book to address the meticulous details of how to get away with winning in blackjack by card counting, “Turning the Tables on Las Vegas” was the book that converts recreational winners into blackjack careers. After its publication, however, Andersen disappeared from the scene to produce a sequel “Burning the Tables in Las Vegas–Keys to Success in Blackjack and in Life”.
Since 1976, Ian Andersen has been developing his personal approach for success in blackjack, poker, and other of life’s games. His strategy combines elements of mathematics, psychology, mental and physical well-being to create a brand new approach to winning.
“Burning the Tables in Las Vegas” addresses virtually every aspect of blackjack advantage play: game selection, table selection, casino selection, tipping, guises, disguises, false identification, credit, comps, risk, heat, employee relations, dress, demeanour, diet and longevity. Ian Andersen also explains that not only emotions, in particular guilt and anger, but also skills, such as discipline and interpersonal competence, can affect your potential for profit.
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