Once you’ve covered the essentials, it also gives some helpful advice on basic strategy, so you can always use the cards you’ve been dealt to your advantage. The calculator will then state the best strategy action to take (the one that will minimise the house edge). His book Playing Blackjack as a Business was published in 1971 and includes strategies he developed with the high speed computers made by Julian H. His book Blackjack Blueprint was published in 2005 and has everything you need to know about blackjack and how to make money playing it.

This crop of noob-friendly books on blackjack is brimming with practical advice, intriguing hacks, and much more, all curated to help you zoom from a naïve amateur to a pro player in a breeze. If you are super geeky and simply MUST have a better explanation, check out Mike Shakleford’s video where he builds basic strategy from scratch using excel and watch his other video where he determines the house edge the same way.Million Dollar Blackjack by author Ken Uston is widely regarded as the definitive volume on counting cards.

Whether you’ve picked up a few online poker tips from reading One of a Kind, got a few insights into blackjack from The World’s Greatest Blackjack Book or you’re excited to do more than read about the history of gambling after completing Roll The Bones, you can get into the action for real with BetMGM. You may have seen his team featured in the documentary Holy Rollers: The True Story of Card Counting Christians, and has been covered by New York Times, CNN, and The Colbert Report. Uston’s own methods of card counting are presented in this book, and he used them to make millions in the casinos of Las Vegas and Atlantic City.The last thing you should think about when it comes to basic strategy is whether or not to take another card. In this title, Fred Renzey teaches players how to convincingly play and win at the game of blackjack. The refreshed edition packs even more insights on practical stuff like getting rebates on blackjack losses, disguising chips, hiding wins, protecting your personal privacy at online casinos, reducing the risk of identity theft, and much more. Blackjack rules are generally set by regulations that establish permissible rule variations at the casino's discretion. Some games allow unlimited resplitting, while others may limit it to a certain number of hands, such as four hands (for example, "resplit to 4").