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1. Mathematically very sound and easy to read, this book presents an unbalanced 10-count system. This system's playing efficiency is quite good(.61), and because it is an unbalanced system with the pivot point at the 2.0 non-ten/ten ratio it has a perfect insurance correlation. It's betting correlation is weak compared to more complex counting systems, but with a separate ace count the BC can be brought above 0.90. Because of the ease of keeping count, and with the pivot point at the point of betting favorability, I think this is a good system to use for multiple deck games (though when it was written single-deck games predominated, and the initial chapters are written for single-deck games). I have used this system to good effect. If you want a system for shoe games where you can have an advantage over the casino, yet can keep an accurate count and still relax, this may be the system for you.

1 comments about The Blackjack Hijack.

1. The Blackjack Hijack is a definite genre mixer, combining "math whiz beats Vegas" with 1970s disaster movie (the eponymous "hijack." But the book doesn't stop there: it throws in a bit of everything: a faked suicide, apartment living in Las Vegas, and of course the obligatory love interest. There are even musings on comparative civil engineering and subway construction in San Francisco, New York, and Montreal.
   
   But what truly sets this novel apart from others of its ilk is its improbable linkge of the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy with one man's plan to strike it rich through blackjack. The cover image shows the expected blackjack hand, rather amusingly retouched. The top half of the jack is a mustachioed gunman, visibly irate at his bad 1970s big hair, while the bottom is "Jack" Kennedy himself. I ususally say that the truth is stupider than fiction, but this might be exception that proves the rule.
   
   The plot isn't much: Harry Allen, structural engineer, finds the perfect betting system, which involves multiply his base bet by ten at set intervals. Though he is in communication with the book's narrator, a newspaper columnist who has published a book on card counting, he "doesn't have to count cards for the system to work." You read that right. The great secret to winning at blackjack isn't card counting, which actually has solid math behind it, but getting the right betting system.
   
   Don't ask me why, but Allen is motivated by the Kennedy assassination to develop this system, create a dual identity, and then, years later, "commit suicide," only to reemerge in Las Vegas.
   
   Interesting cultural history stuff here, as we see what Las Vegas casinos were like in the early 1970s (at least in the author's perception), and what it was like to move to a small apartment back then. Apparently it was no problem at all to pick up soon-to-be divorced hotties before you even got your TV hooked up.
   
   By the time the book gets around to the hijack, there's something like 40 pages left, and it seems like something of an anti-climax. It's interesting, though, to see how calm everyone is about the hijacking, and how the hijackers have simple demands--a definite artifact of the world before 9/11.

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