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Summary: Excellent text book and reference
Review: All serious blackjack players own this book. It is a good read and a frequent reference. Chapter 9, on risk of ruin, is important reading for serious gamblers. Ch 10 is a very good quick reference to find the relative favorability and win rate approximations for hundreds of the permutations of rules, number of decks, and betting strategies for blackjack games. I'm a professional gambler and I refer to this book often. It easily ranks among the five or six "must own" books in the field of blackjack.
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Summary: This book has no realworld value
Review: BJA2 has little value for the realworld player. The author goes into minute detail of cardcounting intricacies as if we're dealing with rocket science. No mention of the fact that casinos are adding to their cardcounter catching techniques almost daily. Any true advantage player knows cardcounting is the easiest of all edges for the house to recognize. Where is the mention of other, more profitable techniques? Sadly, nowhere in these pages. "Playing The Pros Way"? I don't think so.
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Summary: Card counters love it
Review: Blackjack Attack is an excellent book, and has been very well received by a most critical audience -- visitors to BJ21.com, the busiest blackjack web site. The material in the book can be valuable to you if you learn to count cards to win at blackjack in casinos. Stanford Wong
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Summary: Ridiculous Overkill
Review: Blackjack is not that hard to play. But Schlessinger makes it sound as if we're dealing with intricate brain surgery. We aren't. If you want to know the "secret formula" of professionals you might consider this. If you play games with deep penetration, count cards in these games, structure your betting to get to double the number of decks you are playing against when the count is positive, and get that money out there in high counts, you will win. It is that simple. Schlessinger's book is truly ludicrous in its intricacies. His math isn't wrong, it just isn't necessary to play winning blackjack. If you are looking for good blackjack books to give you a handle on this game, look elsewhere.
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Summary: One of the better blackjack books
Review: Don Schlesinger has a special ability to take theory and original work and make it more practical and understandable. Chapters 1, 7, and 9 are excellent and chapter 10 is a book of its own. This book contains some excellent technical and mathematical content and Don trys to solve many problems. My only objections to this book is that most of the book is material from past Blackjack Forum articles and the author is a little biased on certain issues. Overall, it is must reading.
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Summary: An instant classic in the field
Review: Every serious blackjack player ought to own this book. Schlesinger explains the mathematical underpinnings of the game with great authority and applies them to practical considerations of casino play, particularly "card counting." In so doing, he makes many original contributions to the game. Chief among them is his analysis of the varying rules and conditions that can affect the player's advantage from casino to casino (and even from table to table within one casino). Schlesinger's anecdotes about his own experiences in the game keep the book lively. There have been hundreds of books written about blackjack over the years. I've read a great many of them. I believe that "Blackjack Attack" joins Thorp's "Beat the Dealer" and Wong's "Professional Blackjack" as the three classics in the field
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Summary: Attack Shooting Blanks
Review: I found this book to be completely lacking in any new ways to beat blackjack. Furthermore, the methods espoused by this book are well known to all casinos in the world and are very easy to spot. Furthermore, this book is dangerous for the novice player yet useless for the working pro.
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Summary: Not for the average player
Review: I have to ask a question . Who are all these people who commented on this book? The author lists all these glowing comments but not one is attributed to a person. Is this ridiculous or what? He could have just written all these things to sell the book. The book itself is good but not great. It is overkill as far as I'm concerned. It should come with a warning that it is the trivia book of blackjack. I think a book like KO Blackjack is far superior because it teaches you how to win without getting a headache.
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Summary: Confusing Book
Review: I was really confused reading this book because the author goes into too much detail. I couldn't figure out what was important or what was just information of interest. Is blackjack really this complicated that a whole book has to be written on it like this? It was way over my head and I think most people will find it dull and boring. Also the pages fell out as the binding wasn't very good. Maybe for professional players this is a good book but for gamblers even card counters it is just too confusing. The author isn't even a professional player but a Wall Street guy.
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Summary: Don Schlesinger is the World's #1 Authority on Blackjack
Review: I've bought several good books on blackjack (The World's Greatest Blackjack Book, Best Blackjack, Blackjack a Winner's Guide, Professional Blackjack, Beat the Dealer, Theory of Blackjack, Burning the Tables on Vegas, Blackjack Attack) and the two best are Burning the Tables in Vegas (BTV) and Blackjack Attack (BJA). In BTV it covers counting along with the entire lifestyle and behavior needed to prosper in the casino playing blackjack. In BJA Mr. Schlesinger covers every significant detail relating to the modern game. His famous "Illustrious 18" play variations gives the beginning player 90+ % of the advantage available though card counting in one very simple package. Throughout the book he uses several other blackjack authorities (some are authors of the above mentioned books) to verify his findings on many of the finer points of the game. This book assumes you already know how to card count using the most popular basic card counting system in use today, Hi-lo. This system is covered comprehensively in most of the other books forementioned. PEace
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