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The proficiency of card counting in blackjack is one that is often credited with the legendary blackjack player Ed Thorp, but skillfulness was actually in the middle of the twentieth century, when the popular book play blackjack to win, was published in 1957.
Before then, there was no real blackjack strategy - in fact it was more of a game based on assumptions and intuitions rather than something more solid.
The book is well written by the four players blackjack legendary Herbert Maisel, James McDermott, Wilbert Cantey and Roger Baldwin (or "The Four Horsemen" as they were more generally known), changed almost everything.
It contained the first mathematical strategy of blackjack and also spoke of a rudimentary system of counting cards that need the use of "adding machines" to help players become more successful.
This theory certainly had an impact on thoughts Thorpe took the Cavaliers and has developed a system that no longer requisite counting machines.
Instead, the system simply Thorpe is recommended by 16 different strategies based on maps that were distributed on the table at some point. The strategies were rudimentary and do not necessarily maximize the benefits due to the fact that there were no recommendations to increase the size of positions based on values of the cards of a player.
However, strategies have been published in "Beat the Dealer" the famous book, and despite initially low draw, his ideas enforced blackjack players in the world to watch the game in a different way.
Indeed, many of the more modern counting systems are still based around the original ideas that came with Thorpe.
This revolutionary new way of looking at blackjack Thorpe was a celebrity almost overnight and develops a fear casinos card counting blackjack players who have been able to eliminate the house edge.
Consequently, two years after Beat the Dealer was published in Las Vegas attempted to change the standard rules of Blackjack so that could be split Aces and Double would be limited to 11 hands completely.
The Blackjack society reacted so angrily that three weeks after the new rules were introduced; they were abandoned because of the absence of any activity on the tables.
Despite all these troubles, Thorpe continued to refine its strategy. In 1966 he published a new edition of Beat the Dealer which, including a new strategy Counting cards he called the "Hi-Lo count.
This new system was much more effective and encouraged players to vary the size of their development according to the maps he had seen out of the shoe.
