Best Blackjack

Rating:
Summary: The One Book You Need
Review: I have read about a dozen BJ books in the last year and this was the best overall book. I liked it better than KO Blackjack because it is clearer and more fun to read. The author mixes advice and strategies with great stories of Vegas and his experiences at the tables. It is a very comprehensive book and really shows you how to get the edge. It is never dry or dull.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent Book with Great Advice
Review: I really enjoyed this book and I learned a lot from Scoblete. he made it fun to read and when I went to the casino I was fully prepared. This book is worth its weight in gold!

Rating:
Summary: Wonderful Book
Review: Most gambling books are so poorly written and so filled with misinformation that you feel ripped off after you read them. Not this one. Frank Scoblete has laid out a clear way to beat the game of blackjack without offering any pie-in-the-sky promises of untold riches. He describes what games are the best to play and how to play them. He shows how to count cards and explains what are the real essentials for getting an edge. The book contains a great amount of information but Scoblete's writing style is so smooth and his anecdotes and stories are so much fun that the reading moves along at a good clip. This book is the best I have ever read in the gambling field and I've read many books.

Rating:
Summary: F & F = Fun and inFormative
Review: I usually don't have fun when I read a gambling book as most gambling writers are dry as dust. But Scoblete's book was different. Not only did I learn an incredible amount but I had fun doing it. This was a great book!

Rating:
Summary: Well Thought Out and Approachable Book
Review: Several of the blackjack books I read up until this one were poorly written and cared more for showing off the author's knowledge than about teaching players what the best methods were for beating the casinos. It was hard to tell what was important and what was just interesting stuff. This book is different. Frank Scoblete lays out the criteria for what a good blackjack game is and what a bad blackjack game is and then he goes on to show how to use basic strategy and card counting to beat the good games. The book is well organized and allows you to gain knowledge in increments that you can assimilate. Yet it is thorough. I learned more about blackjack from Scoblete's book than I did from writers who are considered the top blackjack theorists in the field. Perhaps that's why Scoblete is the number one gambling writer because he knows how to give his knowledge in ways normal people can understand. What also made this book a very enjoyable reading experience was the fact that Scoblete weaves in interesting stories, both from his personal experience and from gambling lore, to give a fuller idea of what playing in a casino really means. The book in my opinion is a masterpiece. It has helped me tremendously at the tables.

Rating:
Summary: Taught Me What I Needed To Know
Review: I have been playing a version of basic strategy for many years and losing my short. So I picked up this book from Amazon over the holidays and studied it carefully. It has made an amazing difference in my blackjack play because I realized that I was playing many hands incorrectly. Scoblete also taught me to count cards and it wasn't even that hard! The book is also a lot of fun to read because Scoblete tells some really great stories to go with his strategies. This was worth everypenny I paid for it.

Rating:
Summary: Great Book
Review: I have been playing blackjack at Foxwoods for several years using basic strategy. I was losing consistently with only an occasional win. I decided I wanted to learn how to count cards and also to get insights into the game that might help me win more often. I read three books, the last by Frank Scoblete. This book was the best. It was a thorough view of all relevant aspects of blackjack from a writer who obviously has played the game successfully for many years. Many of the experiences he wrote about in his book I had had at the tables myself. I found his approach to card counting to be the best because he cut through all the garbage I had to wade through in the other two books I read and got to the essential core of the matter. That is no easy task because many blackjack writers pride themselves on charts and graphs that explore trivia. After a while you forget what's important and what isn't. Scoblete's book wasn't like that. He stuck to the essentials which are 1. what games to play based on penetration and rules, 2. what strategies to employ based on number of decks, 3. the few variations that really matter in basic strategy based on the count, 4. which counting system is really the best to use based on ease of use and ability to use for long periods of time. He also had some really funny stories about players so that the book isn't all just strategy or dry stuff. I think most blackjack players or would be blackjack players will find this book to be excellent. Experienced players will probably find his discussion of "dealer tells" to be interesting and his stories to be amusing. This is a great book.

Rating:
Summary: Excellent and Complete Analysis of Various Systems
Review: This book has a complete analysis of various ways to approach blackjack. It has excellent information on various counting systems and it shows quite clearly that the simplist systems are often the best systems because the difference in expectation between complex and simple is marginal. I especially liked Scoblete's analysis of which games to play and which to avoid. His sections on guerrilla methods of play, sometimes called Wonging after Standford Wong, a blackjack expert, in positive counts and his single-deck scanning strategies for deciding insurance are excellent. Scoblete shines in his ability to put theory into context and show how his ideas and methods actually work in a casino. This is one of a half dozen books written about blackjack that are really quality literature as opposed to get rich quick nonsense. It is evident from the massive amount of research that Scoblete has done and the hundreds of sources he relates that the man has done his homework. If you want to be a winner or have a good shot at winning, this is a very valuable book. It is also a very enjoyable read as Scoblete is a fine writer who knows how to use anecdotes toget his points across. He deserves his best selling status for sure.

Rating:
Summary: What a disappointment!
Review: This book ought to be called "What I thought I learned in Blackjack 101--but didn't".It is slim on content, and what little there IS, the author apparently copied from others. He has no counting system of his own,and--after quoting from others' books--says he uses the simplest counting system (a method primarily designed for, and used only by, beginners)BECAUSE HE SAYS THE OTHER SYSTEMS ARE TOO HARD FOR HIM TO REMEMBER! He obviously lacks any understanding for the mathematics behind the game. The idea that players should jump into a game "only if the count is plus 1 or more" and then leave the casino after playing only one or two hands--"as soon as the count turns negative" IS LUDICROUS! He is a self-styled "scanner" who thinks that jumping into a game for one or two hands, with bets of only 2-4 units at a time, and then leaving, is the way to become a winner! If you follow his advice , you will become a loser like those seen at casinos every day, who come to your table for just two hands,and then leave, after messing up the cards for everyone else. The worst part of this book is that it is training unsuspecting innocents to become LOSERS as well. Skip this book, if you really want to win!

Rating:
Summary: don't buy it!
Review: this book just talk about trash, and if u know just a little bit about blackjack. then u know this book is useless. So don't waste your money!