Heroes of our time.
What is the current situation in the sphere of the war between the tokens and the players? Are there people to follow today? Fortunately, despite the big changes in the game itself and in the reaction of casino players, blackjack is still alive and very popular. Thanks once again to Edward Thorp.
We are now living in the Internet age. If Uston at the time was able to stand out from the crowd only due to his and his own spin-off publicity, now everyone can easily communicate with the blackjack stars.
Peter Griffin – is a great mathematician, developer of blackjack theory, now deceased. No blackjack expert would say a word without referring to Griffin. Arnold Snider is a noted player, strategy developer, and author of many books. A man of excellent soul with a perfect sense of humor, always contradictory. Stanford Wong as always a bit reserved and a bit introverted, but extremely scrupulous and always fighting the casino. Don Schlesinger was able to explain the most intricate details of blackjack in simple and clear language.
The internet abounds with many resources where you can meet the best players in the world and ask them any questions you want. There are still many unanswered questions.
Many unique books were published; new game systems and techniques are being developed. Every day betting forums answer and ask thousands of questions. The players are becoming more educated, intelligent and well prepared. Despite the obvious worsening of the rules, you can still win at blackjack.
The casino is getting more and more paranoid about “advantage” players. Attempts to worsen the rules and terms of the game even to the detriment of their own reputation and profits, massive blacklists, efforts to legalize laws beneficial to them – all of these are not just American. During half a century of struggle, the casinos did not understand that they are cutting their throats. The fact that you can win at blackjack attracts a lot of money. More than 1% of the world’s players do not represent any risk for casinos. However, in order to save every dollar, casinos are spending millions of dollars on the most advanced computer technologies, personality identification programs, computer databases, they are creating new devices to fight counters. Moral ethical standards are frequently violated and legal limits are abused.
Happy ending.
What future holds for an ordinary accountant? There are only two opposing opinions so far.
The gloomy:
Technologies will kill the game. Casinos will develop some dirty electronic trick that will not allow a competent professional player to gain an advantage. Blackjack will die becoming just another slot machine. Casinos will puncture all players, all blacklists will merge into a common one, and advantage play will cease to exist.
The Optimist:
“What one person has built, the other can easily dismantle.” Blackjack can’t help it!
First, players will always keep inventing something new in response to changes in the game. There is no such thing created by one person, that another person cannot exaggerate. Second, casinos should finally realize that most of their profits are due to the theory that you can win at blackjack. The transformation of this intellectual game into fights with stupid slot machines will deprive casinos of money.
Personally, I hope that the human intellect wins. May the war between casinos and players continue forever. Let both parties rack their brains to defeat each other. Let this fight be vehement, but honest and respectful with the rival.
The intellect will always win.