Many of today’s blackjack writers hawk the faulty old school methods of the 1950s and ‘60s without having read the old school books very carefully.
For example, today’s pundits often bemoan the advent of lower blackjack payouts, telling their readers not to play at casinos who pay at a ratio of 6:5 instead of the traditional 3:2. Yet they then recommend their readers play multideck games (games with more than two decks), which bring players a much greater disadvantage than the new lower blackjack payouts.
Then the players who’ve read the misguided mumbo jumbo from today’s blackjack writers (most of whom are not true players) come to my events and expect to get methods that work as well against the worst blackjack games – the 6- and 8-deck games – as against the single and double games. But that’s impossible. (Although my methods can beat the 6-deck games, as I did professionally in Atlantic City when my career began, no methods can win as much against those games as they do against the better, more predictable single and double deck games.)
No one can make the worst games as winnable as the best. And if they claim they can, they’re frauds.
Lawrence Revere
The originators of the old school methods – more honest than their sycophants today – admitted their methods did not work well against multideck games. In fact, even the 4-deck games (no longer to be found) that disappeared by the late ‘90s proved too much for most if not all of the old school methods. In 1969’s Playing Blackjack As A Business, Lawrence Revere wrote this about 4-deck games:
Lance Humble, co-author of The World’s Greatest Blackjack Book (1980) also noted that multiple deck games were less winnable than single deck:
Lance Humble
And Humble said (three decades ago) that 6-deck games were not winnable or worth playing:
So why are today’s blackjack writers claiming the old school methods work against the 6- and 8-deck games?
And why do most old school players think they are using the correct methods to beat the multideck games?
Lance Humble Quote No. 2
Richard Harvey is a world renowned blackjack researcher and innovator, expert player, blackjack coach and professor, columnist and bestselling author of Blackjack The SMART Way (the NEW Gold Edition), Cutting Edge Blackjack (the NEW Third Edition), NEW Ways To Win MORE at Blackjack and the audio book Richard Harvey’s Blackjack PowerPrep Session. Have blackjack questions? Send them to rharvey2121@netscape.net. For more info see www.blackjacktoday.com.
