Risk and Reward The Science of Casino Blackjack
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Risk and Reward The Science of Casino Blackjack Second Edition
Risk and Reward
N. Richard Werthamer
Risk and Reward The Science of Casino Blackjack Second Edition
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N. Richard Werthamer Chelsea Technologies Sag Harbor, NY, USA
ISBN 978-3-319-91384-1 ISBN 978-3-319-91385-8 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91385-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018942354 1st edition: © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 2nd edition: © Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by the registered company Springer International Publishing AG part of Springer Nature. The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
Preface
How did a physicist like me get involved with blackjack? I skied in. As a young doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, I would occasionally join my friends on ski trips to the Lake Tahoe area. Always on a student’s tight budget, we found that we could stay inexpensively in Reno motels and that the cheapest meals were at the coffee shops astutely placed at the back of the town’s casinos. I found it hard to pass all the gambling frenzy without joining in. Fortunately for that budget and my financial peace of mind, I was usually lucky in winning a few dollars. Once, I paid for my entire trip with an unlikely hit at roulette. When I learned that an optimized method for playing blackjack (what is now called Basic Strategy) had been published in a scholarly statistics journal, I quickly looked it up in the university library. Blackjack became my game of choice for subsequent Tahoe excursions and, in later years after skiing and I had parted company, for trips to other destinations with casinos. But my real recreation of choice became blackjack analysis!
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