Beyond Counting : Exploiting Casino Games from Blackjack to Video Poker |  | Author: James Grosjean
Publisher: RGE Publishing
Category: Book
Buy New: $2,000.00
as of 7/30/2010 14:55 CDT details
New (1) Used (5) from $465.00
Seller: Bucky T
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 2297740
Media: Paperback
Pages: 223
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 10.6 x 8.5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0910575177
EAN: 9780910575171
ASIN: 0910575177
Publication Date: 2000
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
Wow. August 20, 2006
Elihu D. Feustel (South Bend, IN)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
For professional gamblers, this book is the best you'll ever get.
Grosjean presents a wide variety of material. This text assumes the reader is a successful gambler, and has mastered all beginner and intermediate material. If you are a blackjack card-counter and have made 50k from BJ, you have the background to fully appreciate this book.
This presents material from two different angles, each of which is original. He first analyzes traditional games (not just Blackjack) and shows you ways to beat them, with a mathematical focus on exploiting weak dealers (there is an exceptional analyzis of 3-card poker). Second, he presents a new way of thinking for "textbook gamblers" (those who profit from books, but don't develop original ideas for themselves.) This focus opened my eyes to new ways to profit, notably in Blackjack. One other thing that is surprising for a book of this price - the methods explained are legal.
Some auction sites will list this book from $500-$2000. If 1. you don't know people "in the know", 2. you have at least 50k in capital, and 3. you play a lot of +EV BJ, this book is worth the auction price.
Before you buy a used copy, be aware that Grosjean is releasing a new edition of "Beyond Counting" in 2006 or early 2007. Grosjean's website notes that there might be two versions - the normal one, and one for accredited professionals. Given what I read in the original edition, it would not surprise me if he removed a lot of exceptional material for the republication.
Fantastic book - extremely useful and lucid August 22, 2007
Rock Sedan
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is an amazingly lucid and very useful book. It provides valuable advice to get an edge in many casino games - all legal advice, of course. Essential, but, sadly, hard to get.
Regarding the sequel: It is already about a year late, and the publishers stopped posting publishing date updates on their website in February 2007.
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