Blackjack Apprenticeship is good. You can probably learn the things they teach from a bunch of books, videos, and posting on forums. That doesn't make it a bad product. People pay $1000 for professional seminars and conferences all the time. I would gladly pay $5000 for a James Grosjean seminar.


People who complain about "slick marketing" are either naive or improperly emotional. They're running a business. They have to market it. This is the kind of thing you hear from people who have never run a business. Or else their feelings are hurt because someone is monetizing something they don't think should be monetized. Who cares if someone monetizes card counting? No one owns it, and casinos deserve to be pounded for the way most of them treat customers.


I don't know that Ian Anderson actually won a lot of money at blackjack. James Grosjean has, and he uses phrases like "sometimes naked is the best disguise." Card counting is neither a strong nor rare game. It doesn't need to be protected as expensively as many think. You certainly shouldn't be doing silly things like artificially playing a low spread (one of the worst forms of cover) for a simple count game.