Blackjack Forum Arnold Snyder
As the editor of an online trade journal, Blackjack Forum which began in 1981, Arnold Snyder provides quality and specific information for not only fellow professional players, but for new players as well. The element in his forum’s success is that all of the information is put out for free and on his own time. Blackjack Forum founder Arnold Snyder and Bishop of the First Church of Blackjack giving a sermon sponsored by Ballys Reno in 1987. Snyder's sermons is a spoof and provides humorous hope.
The Blackjack Hall of Fame honors the greatest blackjack experts, authors, and professional players in history. It was launched in 2002, and its physical premises are in San Diego, California.
History[edit]
The Blackjack Hall of Fame is housed at the Barona Casino, in San Diego, California. The Barona Casino awards to each inductee a permanent lifetime comp for full room, food, and beverage, in exchange for each member’s agreement never to play on Barona’s tables.[1]
In winter 2002, a diverse selection of 21 blackjack experts, authors, and professional players were nominated for membership in the Blackjack Hall of Fame. The public was allowed to vote for about a month through the Internet. The final voting was completed at the January 2003 Blackjack Ball, an event open only to selected professional blackjack players and experts and hosted by blackjack author Max Rubin,[1] whereby the first 7 members were inducted.[1]
The following year, at the 2004 Blackjack Ball, 2 more inductees were added, again with primary voting done by professional gamblers at the Ball. Nomination of candidates, after 2006, has become the permanent responsibility of the members of the Blackjack Hall of Fame themselves[2] whilst the vote on the candidates that have been nominated is conducted by the invitees to the Blackjack Ball.[3] The Hall of Famers inducted 2 more members per year through 2006, and then agreed to drop to only 1 person per year.
However, in late 2007, 4 new members, were inducted in the Hall of Fame 'as a group'.[4]
Inductees[edit]
The current members of the Blackjack Hall of Fame are the following:
- Al Francesco, 2002, one of the founders of the concept of blackjack teams.
- Peter Griffin, 2002, mathematician, theoretical pioneer and author of The Theory of Blackjack.
- Arnold Snyder, 2002, former professional player, author and editor of Blackjack Forum.
- Edward O. Thorp, 2002, author of the 1960s classic Beat the Dealer
- Ken Uston, 2002, professional player and author who popularized the concept of team play, often playing in disguise and successfully suing the Atlantic City casinos for the rights of card counters.
- Stanford Wong, 2002, author and popularizer of the strategy known as 'Wonging'.
- Tommy Hyland, 2002, manager of one of the longest-running blackjack teams.
- Max Rubin, 2004, expert and author, known for media reporting about gambling events, and optimizing casino comps.
- Keith Taft, 2004, inventor who manufactured hidden computerized devices to aid advantage play.
- Julian Braun, 2005, pioneering author who used computers to analyze blackjack statistics.
- Lawrence Revere, 2005, author of Playing Blackjack as a Business and blackjack teacher
- James Grosjean, 2006, computer analyst and professional player, author of the classic Beyond Counting, who successfully sued casinos and the Griffin Agency.
- John Chang, 2007, former manager of the MIT Blackjack Team; was the basis for the Mickey Rosa character in the movie 21.
- Roger Baldwin, Wilbert Cantey, Herbert Maisel and James McDermott, 2008, collectively known as 'The Four Horsemen of Aberdeen'[5] who, while serving in the U.S. Army in the 1950s, discovered and published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association the first accurate basic strategy for Blackjack, using only desk calculators.
- Richard W. Munchkin, 2009, blackjack and backgammon expert,[6] author,[7] film director and producer.[8]
- Darryl Purpose, 2010, former professional advantage player and performing songwriter.[9]
- Zeljko Ranogajec, 2011,[10] professional gambler from Australia, former blackjack professional player.
- Ian Andersen, 2012, expert and author[11][12]
- Robert Nersesian, 2014, Las Vegas lawyer specializing in lawsuits by players against casinos.
- Don Schlesinger, 2015, author, researcher, columnist, editor of numerous blackjack books, and long-time Blackjack player.[13]
- Bill Benter, 2016, blackjack team manager and horse-racing expert. One of the highest earning gamblers in history.[14]
- Don Johnson, 2017, beat the Atlantic City casinos for over $15 million.[15]
- Wally Simmons, 2018, blackjack and horse handicapping pro.[15]
- Rob Reitzen, 2019
- Anthony Curtis, 2020, blackjack tournament player, author, publisher of the Las Vegas Advisor, a newsletter founded in 1983 that covers discounts in Las Vegas, and operator of Huntington Press.[16]
References[edit]
Blackjack Forum Arnold Snyder Obituary
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- ^Blackjack Forum
- ^'ThePOGG Interviews - Arnold Snyder Blackjack Hall of Fame Inductee'. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
- ^Las Vegas Sun : They invented Basic Strategy
- ^Yvonne Shinhoster Lamb (6 July 2008). 'Mathematician Co-Authored Guide to Winning at Blackjack'. The Washington Post.
- ^'A Profile of Richard Munchkin' BlackjackHero.com, 2008
- ^Gambling Wizards: Conversations with the World's Greatest Gamblers Huntington Press, April 2003, ISBN978-0-929712-05-5
- ^Richard Munchkin at the IMDB.com
- ^Darryl Purpose web site.
- ^'2011 Blackjack Ball', Blackjack Insider
- ^Turning the Tables on Las Vegas Vintage, February 1978, ISBN978-0-394-72509-3
- ^Burning the Tables in Las Vegas: Keys to Success in Blackjack and in Life (Gambling Theories Methods) Huntington Press, March 2003, ISBN978-0-929712-84-0
- ^'2015 Blackjack Ball' by Henry Tamburin, Blackjack Insider website
- ^Colon, Nicholas G. 'Inside The Blackjack Ball: An Exclusive Look At The Gathering Of The Smartest Gamblers In The World'. Forbes.
- ^ ab'What Are the Names of the People in the Blackjack Hall of Fame? Las Vegas Advisor'. Las Vegas Advisor.
- ^Dakton, Michael. 'Blackjack Hall of Fame - The Encyclopedia of Blackjack'. Blackjack Review.
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Arnold Snyder is a professional gambler and gambling author. He was elected by professional blackjack players as one of the seven original inductees into the Blackjack Hall of Fame which is hosted at Barona Casino[1][2] for his record as a blackjack player and his innovations in professional gambling techniques. He was the first blackjack authority to publish the importance of deck penetration (depth of the deal) in card counting, in his 1980 book The Blackjack Formula. He was also the first blackjack researcher to publish (in Blackjack Forum, 1981–1983) that radical simplification of blackjack card counting systems did not hurt earnings.
Since 1981, Arnold Snyder has been the editor of Blackjack Forum, a quarterly trade journal for professional gamblers. In 2004 Snyder moved the publication of Blackjack Forum from print to online due to time constraints imposed by playing more frequently and the frustration with dealing with the business side of the publication industry.[3]Blackjack Forum has published many articles about professional gambling, discussion of strategies and approaches for various games and interviews with many professional gamblers including Al Francesco, Keith Taft and Marty Taft, Tommy Hyland, Johnny Chang, Darryl Purpose.
His book Blackbelt in Blackjack is a guide to card counting and other professional gambling techniques in blackjack, with an emphasis on advice for winning in real-life casino play. In his book The Blackjack Shuffle Tracker's Cookbook, he published the first mathematical analysis of the value of different types of blackjack shuffle tracking, as well as the first analysis of how to most profitably track today's more complicated casino shuffles. The Big Book of Blackjack covers the history of blackjack, especially the history of the achievements of blackjack's most successful professional players.
In 2006, his book The Poker Tournament Formula provides mathematical analysis of the optimal strategy for multi-table poker tournaments with blind levels lasting less than an hour. The book also includes analysis of bankroll requirements for professional poker tournament players, as well as mathematical analysis of optimal poker tournament rebuy strategy.
Snyder has reviewed books by numerous gambling authors including the first edition of 'Blackjack Attack' by Don Schlesinger and 'The Blackjack Life' by Nathaniel Tilton[4] and has exposed numerous phony gambling systems.[5][6][7][8][9] Snyder's recommendations on gambling books and systems can be found at his websites.
Arnold Snyder is also known as an advocate for the rights of professional gamblers. His testimony in the Windsor, Ontario trial of blackjack team manager Tommy Hyland was instrumental in preserving the legal right to blackjack team play in Canadian and U.S. casinos. He has also testified as an expert witness in court cases involving the rights of blackjack hole-card players and dealer-tell players.
Arnold Snyder also compiled a book, Radical Blackjack that was due for publication in 2011 but was never released. Snyder decided not to publish the book due to some of the discussed techniques still being actively used by professional players and as such not wishing to endanger the integrity of the plays.[3]
Books by Arnold Snyder[edit]
- Blackbelt in BlackjackISBN1-58042-143-1
- Big Book of BlackjackISBN1-58042-155-5
- How to Beat the Internet Casinos and Poker Rooms
- The Poker Tournament Formula
- The Poker Tournament Formula 2
- The Blackjack Shuffle-Trackers Cookbook: How Players Win (And Why They Lose) With Shuffle Tracking
- The Blackjack Formula
- The Over/Under Report
See also[edit]
Blackjack Forum Arnold Snyder Funeral Home
References[edit]
Blackjack Forum Arnold Snyder Net Worth
- ^'Max Rubin - Blackjack Hall of Fame'.
- ^'Blackjack Forum Online - Blackjack Hall of Fame'.
- ^ ab'ThePOGG Interviews - Arnold Snyder Blackjack Hall of Fame Inductee'. Retrieved 9 August 2014.
- ^'ThePOGG Interviews - Nathaniel Tilton author of 'The Blackjack Life''. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
- ^'Blackjack Forum Online - Review of E. Clifton Davis' NBJ and WCB Blackjack Systems'.
- ^'Blackjack Forum Online - Winners' Testimonials: A Swami Pastrami Parable'.
- ^'Blackjack Forum Online - Non-Random Shuffle Blackjack Systems: Shuffle Bored, Anyone?'.
- ^'Blackjack Forum Online - Gambling Systems with Non-Disclosure Agreements'.
- ^'Blackjack Forum Online - Psychic Gamblers'.