More History of Blackjack
Next few year were quite happening. Many books with
more systems devoted to winning blackjack were published.
Some of them even proposed to provide enough information
to allow the reader to live off the profits of their
efforts, such publications like Lawrence Revere's "Playing
Blackjack As A Business" and Stanley Roberts' also helped
to share the wealth with his winning systems in his book
"Winning Blackjack". Soon blackjack began to compete with
craps as the most popular casino game in the state of
Nevada.
With inception of computer in this field, now it was
possible to perform million of hands blackjack
simulations, this allowed the players to produce
sophisticated game strategies and many scientists,
mathematicians, university professors, and other
intellectuals began writing books on the game. Now it was
a real threat to the casinos, because they were afraid of
the latest technologies like computer simulation and the
books, this was a potential threat to there margin of
profit. To counteract this computer simulated strategies
the casinos has now introduced multiple deck games rather
then single deck game in 1970.
A living legend of the period indeed worth mentioning was
Ken Uston, who used five computers that were built into
the shoes of members of his playing team in 1977. The
gamblers won over a hundred thousand dollars in a very
short time, but one of the computers was confiscated and
sent to the FBI. The FBI experts concluded that the
computer used public information on BlackJack playing and
was not a cheating device. As a result of his astounding
success, Uston was barred from at least seven of the major
Las Vegas casinos and sued them for violating his civil
rights. He was found dead in a rented apartment in Paris
in 1987, the cause of death remaining undetermined.
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