Hollywood Blackjack

Highly detailed information on casino Blackjack as played worldwide, including over 100 variations, modern basic strategy, modern card counting systems, casino heat, current casino conditions, strategy comparisons, scams and myths, casino comportment and stories from the road. See the preview at www.qfit.com/book. This is Volume I. Volume II is available with advanced strategies. Blackjack expert Don Schlesinger said "What Norm fails to tell you is that this monumental work is one of the most important, comprehensive, pieces of research ever done on the game of blackjack...."

From the first turn of the card to getting out of a foreign country with a suitcase full of cash, this is the most comprehensive book ever written on learning to play blackjack for profit. This book covers everything from basic strategy to counting cards, from maximising potential going solo to playing on a blackjack team. Casino competitions, tournaments, location play, shuffle tracking, playing in disguise, outwitting the eye in the sky, and other advantage-play techniques it is all here. Best of all, the techniques you learn can be used part-time as a money-making hobby, just as author Rick Blaine has used them for years while pursuing a career in finance.

Author Nathaniel Tilton was just a regular guy with a regular job when he read Bringing Down the House and decided he wanted to do what the players in that book did. A journey through the inner world of card counting, the lessons of teamwork, and the clandestine pursuit of beating the odds, in The Blackjack Life Tilton relates the story of his personal journey through the smoke-filled casinos in which he and his playing partner gambled, to the seedy backrooms that he hoped he would never see. More than just wins and losses, The Blackjack Life is about the growth of a man who discovered himself through the unlikeliest of places – the world of professional blackjack -- and who now shares his informed view of the opportunities that still exist for skilled players and what it’s really like to travel that road today.

Hollywood Blackjack is an uncensored, irreverent guide to annihilating the casinos at their own game, as well as the story of the author's rise from starving actor to revered professional gambler. With his Mensa-certified IQ and over-the-top attitude, Dave Stann covers the technical aspects of winning at blackjack in an easy-to-understand fashion and shares his own experiences as a gambler who plays both under the casino radar and under the hot lights of Hollywood. This book takes all of the basic, most pertinent information necessary for beginning card counters and presents it step by step in an organized fashion with both attitude and colorful language. Designed to attract the young and hip, this book is physically attractive, written by a blackjack celebrity, and covers all the details. From basic strategy to the powerful Hi-Lo count system, index numbers to proper betting techniques, the all-important camouflage plays to avoiding casino countermeasures, Hollywood Blackjack brings it all together while the author puts it all out there. Along with stories of the author's play in front of the cameras, this book both educates and entertains. For players and fans alike, Hollywood Blackjack takes you into, around, and inside-out the world of the multi-talented Bad Boy of Gambling.

Valentine's Men He had the right stuff! Brave, built and with blue eyes to die for, Captain Blackjack McConnell was deadly in the air and a danger to female hearts. Only one thing scared the fearless flyboy—love! So when he found himself falling for scientist Sue Rigger, Blackjack ejected. Only years later did the pilot discover he and Sue had made a child together. And now he was back—demanding a chance at fatherhood and a second chance with Sue. Their undeniable attraction was still as explosive as fire to jet fuel, but this time around, Sue swore that it was Blackjack who was going to get burned….

At once informative, comic, and plaintive, Seeing Red—Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins is an anthology of critical reviews that reexamines the ways in which American Indians have traditionally been portrayed in film. From George B. Seitz’s 1925 The Vanishing American to Rick Schroder’s 2004 Black Cloud, these 36 reviews by prominent scholars of American Indian Studies are accessible, personal, intimate, and oftentimes autobiographic. Seeing Red—Hollywood’s Pixeled Skins offers indispensible perspectives from American Indian cultures to foreground the dramatic, frequently ridiculous difference between the experiences of Native peoples and their depiction in film. By pointing out and poking fun at the dominant ideologies and perpetuation of stereotypes of Native Americans in Hollywood, the book gives readers the ability to recognize both good filmmaking and the dangers of misrepresenting aboriginal peoples. The anthology offers a method to historicize and contextualize cinematic representations spanning the blatantly racist, to the well-intentioned, to more recent independent productions. Seeing Red is a unique collaboration by scholars in American Indian Studies that draws on the stereotypical representations of the past to suggest ways of seeing American Indians and indigenous peoples more clearly in the twenty-first century.