sfgiants: Blackjack Attack v.3

[sfgiants]

Greetings.

I have a copy of Blackjack Attack version 2. What are the benefits of getting version 3?

Any updates on KO?

TJ

[Don Schlesinger]

> I have a copy of Blackjack Attack version 2.
> What are the benefits of getting version 3?

Here is the Preface to the third edition. You decide if it's worth having the latest version.

There is much to be excited about in this third, ?Ultimate Weapon,? edition of Blackjack Attack. As the subtitle suggests, I have tried to cram in the pages of this one volume an incredible amount of highly sophisticated blackjack information. To that end, I have eagerly sought the advice and collaboration of some of the keenest minds in the area of blackjack research, and together, we have broken new ground in several ways.

Here, then, are the major additions and improvements to be found in this third edition: first and foremost is the complete revision of the Chapter 10 charts, by Norm Wattenberger, to include optimal betting ramps, unit sizes, SCOREs, and much, much more; a light piece, ?More on SCORE,? appended to the SCORE chapter, as we seek ways to distinguish between the ?original? concept of SCORE, and the ?generic? meaning the term has taken on; the complete version of the Optimal Departure study, which began in the second edition of BJA, but was completed in a subsequent issue of Blackjack Forum; four brand-new risk of ruin equations, encompassing goal-reaching and time-constraint concepts, and an enlightening testing of the formulas? accuracy, through the computer simulations of Norm Wattenberger; an entirely new Chapter 12, as a mythical blackjack team takes a ?Random Walk Down the Strip,? utilizing John Auston?s genial software application, BJRM 2002; a three-part Appendix, courtesy of the amazing Cacarulo, with almost 100 pages (!) of precise expectation tables, basic strategy charts (the most accurate in print), and effects of rules variations on basic strategy expectations; finally, a modified cover design, an enlargement of the book?s format, and, for collectors, an elegant hard-cover edition, which will be followed by a softcover version.

We learn to ?never say never,? but, with this ?Ultimate Weapon,? I believe I have furnished virtually all of the tools that the traditional card counter must have at his disposal to levy a full-blown attack on the casinos. I?m sure you?ll let me know if I?ve left anything out, but, for now, this third edition of Blackjack Attack contains just about everything I know about the game of blackjack. As one reviewer observed (speaking of the second edition), I suggest that you ?don?t leave home without it.? Enjoy!

Don Schlesinger

New York, February 2004

> Any updates on KO?

No. What would you want updated?

Don

[Hollywood]

> Here is the Preface to the third edition.
> You decide if it's worth having the latest
> version.

> There is much to be excited about in this
> third, ?Ultimate Weapon,? edition of
> Blackjack Attack. As the subtitle suggests,
> I have tried to cram in the pages of this
> one volume an incredible amount of highly
> sophisticated blackjack information. To that
> end, I have eagerly sought the advice and
> collaboration of some of the keenest minds
> in the area of blackjack research, and
> together, we have broken new ground in
> several ways.

> Here, then, are the major additions and
> improvements to be found in this third
> edition: first and foremost is the complete
> revision of the Chapter 10 charts, by Norm
> Wattenberger, to include optimal betting
> ramps, unit sizes, SCOREs, and much, much
> more; a light piece, ?More on SCORE,?
> appended to the SCORE chapter, as we seek
> ways to distinguish between the ?original?
> concept of SCORE, and the ?generic? meaning
> the term has taken on; the complete version
> of the Optimal Departure study, which began
> in the second edition of BJA, but was
> completed in a subsequent issue of Blackjack
> Forum; four brand-new risk of ruin
> equations, encompassing goal-reaching and
> time-constraint concepts, and an
> enlightening testing of the formulas?
> accuracy, through the computer simulations
> of Norm Wattenberger; an entirely new
> Chapter 12, as a mythical blackjack team
> takes a ?Random Walk Down the Strip,?
> utilizing John Auston?s genial software
> application, BJRM 2002; a three-part
> Appendix, courtesy of the amazing Cacarulo,
> with almost 100 pages (!) of precise
> expectation tables, basic strategy charts
> (the most accurate in print), and effects of
> rules variations on basic strategy
> expectations; finally, a modified cover
> design, an enlargement of the book?s format,
> and, for collectors, an elegant hard-cover
> edition, which will be followed by a
> softcover version.

> We learn to ?never say never,? but, with
> this ?Ultimate Weapon,? I believe I have
> furnished virtually all of the tools that
> the traditional card counter must have at
> his disposal to levy a full-blown attack on
> the casinos. I?m sure you?ll let me know if
> I?ve left anything out, but, for now, this
> third edition of Blackjack Attack contains
> just about everything I know about the game
> of blackjack. As one reviewer observed
> (speaking of the second edition), I suggest
> that you ?don?t leave home without it.?
> Enjoy!

> Don Schlesinger

> New York, February 2004

> No. What would you want updated?

> Don

Sounds like a good book.

I think i'm gonna invest in a copy.

Who is that by again?

Hollywood

[Don Schlesinger]

> Sounds like a good book.

> I think i'm gonna invest in a copy.

> Who is that by again?

I think you hold the personal record for most total copies bought by one individual. But then, you have very good taste! :-)

Don