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Title: Burning the Tables in Las Vegas: Keys to Success in Blackjack and in Life by Ian Andersen, Stanford Wong ISBN: 0-929712-84-6 Publisher: Huntington Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Should You Buy the Second Edition?
Comment: What's new in this second edition of Burning the Tables in Las Vegas? Mostly Chapter 9 on Green Chip Play. If you have a copy already, it's probably not worth it to buy the new edition, but you might want to borrow a copy to read this short new chapter on low-roller betting. In a nutshell, Andersen tells you how to win with $25-$50 bets, but don't expect to make a living at it.
Andersen spends about half the book talking about the mechanics of blackjack, and only the first few pages cover the basics. The rest is strategy and tactics, and he brings Stanford Wong along to add his expertise. The other half of the book covers topics that are not specific to blackjack, but are just as important: history, psychology, money management, risk management, health, demeanor. It is difficult to say exactly how much of a professional gambler's success is due to playing well and how much is due to people skills, being alert, reading a room, and staying healthy.
This is an up-to-date book that takes into account the way casinos operate today, not twenty years ago. Andersen adds a lot of what should be common sense to the nuts and bolts of playing winning blackjack. You probably don't need someone to tell you not to piss off the dealer (or even shoot them a disgusted look when you're losing), but it doesn't hurt to be reminded. Especially by a proven winner.
Rating: 5
Summary: Ian Andersen is the best!
Comment: There are simply no other players quite as experienced as Ian Andersen. Even if you are not interested in counting cards, his experiences make for great stories and wonderful anecdotes. If you are serious about card-counting, then this book will pay for itself with the Ultimate Gambit. This book is perfect for your first trip to a casino as well as the experienced card-counter.
Rating: 4
Summary: High-roller fact and fantasy
Comment: Ian Andersen is an entertaining writer as well as a longtime high-stakes professional blackjack player. With his latest offering, "Burning the Tables in Las Vegas," Andersen has attempted to update his classic from the '70s, "Turning the Tables on Las Vegas," and make it relevant to today's game. The results are mixed. "Burning" is a good read for sure, with many fascinating vignettes about life in the high-roller fast lane, as well as quite a bit of useful information for pros on how to survive and prosper in an age of high-tech casino surveillance. But, all that aside, it still left me wanting. Andersen may write about blackjack with the entertaining talent of, say, a Bryce Carlson, but he lacks the solid mathematical knowledge of a Carlson, or a Wong, or a Schlesinger to back it up. For example, with his so-called "Ultimate Gambit," he is all too happy in the name of camouflage to reduce his edge to not much more than half a percent, and then throw even more ev out the window with fairly large bets at craps and other negative-expectation games. His whole approach smacks of a certain lack of appreciation for the harsh realities of variance and standard deviation. Don't get me wrong, "Burning" is a very good book, and I think serious bj players will find it enjoyable and useful, but in the real world of professional play--high stakes or otherwise--it laces in a little too much fantasy with the facts to rate five stars.
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Title: Knock-Out Blackjack: The Easiest Card-Counting System Ever Devised by Olaf Vancura, Ken Fuchs ISBN: 0929712315 Publisher: Huntington Press Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Professional Blackjack by Stanford Wong ISBN: 0935926216 Publisher: Pi Yee Press Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Blackjack For Blood: The Card-Counters' Bible, and Complete Winning Guide by Bryce Carlson ISBN: 0935926232 Publisher: Pi Yee Press Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Blackjack Attack, 2e by Don Schlesinger ISBN: 0910575150 Publisher: RGE Publishing Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Theory of Blackjack, 6th Edition by Peter A. Griffin ISBN: 0929712137 Publisher: Huntington Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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