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Summary: Excellent Book for General Strategies and Card Counting
Review: If you are looking for an intelligent and enjoyable book on blackjack; one that will teach you what you need to know to win without wasting your time on trivia like so many other books do, then this book is for you. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and I also learned a lot about what games to play and what games to avoid. Scoblete is highly skilled writer and he makes what could be a boring subject quite interesting and, in some chapters (the ploppy from hell, the million dollar bum, his blackjack diary)downright amusing if not hilarious. I think this is an outstanding book and should be read by anyone who is the least interested in blackjack.
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Summary: I'd Give This TEN Stars if I Could
Review: I already knew much of the technical stuff that is in this book. I knew basic strategy and I knew the KO counting system, which is a level-one system like the one discussed in this book, the hi-lo. However, Scoblete is such an important writer in the gambling field that I decided to read this book just to see what all the raves were about. Now I know. Not only is the book extremely well written, but it has insights and ideas that I have not run across before. I especially loved the anecdotes that Scoblete uses to highlight his ideas and theories. The book is well researched and quite informative. As other reviewers have stated the book is also a very enjoyable one to read. I think blackjack players of all skill levels, from beginners to pros, will find something in its pages. Based on this book alone, I would say that Scoblete well deserves his reputation as the best gaming writer in the business.
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Summary: Best Blackjack is Blackjack's Best
Review: This book has everything you need to know to go from a novice to an advantage player, one who plays with an edge over the casinos. It is expertly written and enjoyable to read.
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Summary: Best Blackjack is Comprehensive and Enjoyable
Review: Frank Scoblete's book "Best Blackjack" has several outstanding virtues. It is extremely well written. Most gambling books are not. Scoblete's style is flawless and he makes the game of blackjack actually fun to read about. The book contains valuable information about basic strategy and card counting. Although these things are by no means unique to Scoblete's book, he is the first to really explain in simple language which blackjack games can actually be beaten using these techniques and which can't. he is very honest about the natureof the edge that a blackjack card counter can get and how easy itis for the casino to offer inferior games that even skilled players can't beat. That was refreshing. Other blackjack books that I've read tend to overstate what you really can achieve playing this game. Scoblete has some unique sections in this book, some dealing with techniques to figure out the dealer's hole card such as "tells". He intersperses the analytical with absolutely fantastic stories about Las Vegas players and events. His blackjack diary at the end is worth the price of the book alone. This is the best book on blackjack that I've read. Ihave used Scoblete's advice on the gaming ships and I can tell you from my own personal experience, the man knows what he's talking about.
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Summary: Good reading
Review: Even if you do not plan to be an expert player, this book is very interesting and enjoyable. You'll learn about the methods and the players. If you are serious about the game, you may have a slight edge (in The Netherlands for example you cannot count the cards and it limits the counting techniques you can apply) but do not expect making big money, and even less a living out the different methods (to say it otherwise you better have a "normal" job or write books about blackjack). It does not mean you cannot have fun
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Summary: I Went from Pathetic to Semi Pro
Review: I read this book about four years ago when I first started playing blackjack. It taught me so much that I soon was beating the casinos consistently, utilizing the game analysis that Scoblete recommends. I think this book is one of the best blackjack books ever written. It saved my gambling life.
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Summary: Informative & enjoyable!
Review: Scoblete has the ability to mix useful information and storytelling in a unique way. Many other books and authors, although informative, can put you to sleep with their dry style of writing and the same old re-hashed info about how to play and counting. Scoblete is anything but this, and interlaces the "lessons" with real life stories and experiences, sometimes extremely funny! Especially interesting is his 17-day foray into Las Vegas, with a day-by-day tally of his wins and losses, sprinkled with the usual anecdotes about the strange casino players he calls "Ploppies."
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Summary: Scoblete is a genius!
Review: This was the best Casino Book I've ever read!! Scoblete is an amazing writer....I highly recommend this book and all of his other books. --Jason P.
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Summary: I agree with the title
Review: I agree with most of the other reviewers, this is the best blackjack book I've read, and I've read quite a few of them.Most BJ books are either useless to the serious or semi-serious BJ player, or are about count strategies that are useful but the book itself is so theoretical and tedious it will bore you to tears. Not so with Mr. Scoblete's tome. In a breezy and easily understandable style, he covers the basics of single and multiple deck strategy for various gambling venues, then moves on to advanced counting strategies. Where this book excels, he then gives practical suggestions on how these strategies can be applied in real life, without being preachy about only doing it "his way", as some authors do. He also flavors the book with his own experience and self recognized bias (the section on "ploppies" is a hoot!) This book has information that will be useful for a novice's first session at a table, or a more serious player looking to improve their skills. If you are planning to purchace one BJ book, make it this one.
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Summary: This is the Best
Review: I have read several blackjack books. They got the point across but they were dull as dishwater. This was the best one of all. Scoblete makes the concepts easy to understand. Having now played the way he recommends, I can see how his methods can get you an edge over the casinos. This book also has many enjoyable stories and insights. If you want to learn blackjack or just have a good read, this is the book for you.
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