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BJI Newsletter, October 2012, #153
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	Blackjack Counter+Expert for Android and iPhone
Contains all features from Mentor, Counter and Expert in one App for Android and iPhone!

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Blackjack Expert is a game simulator and testing tool combined in one easy-to-use program. As you play blackjack, your decisions are tested: actions, index plays, bet sizes, and insurance. The software is packed with advanced features for mastering every aspect of Blackjack card counting. Whether you're just looking for a great Blackjack game or looking to learn card counting techniques, Blackjack Expert is the fastest way to improve your game. Card Counting can give you a statistical edge over the casino.

Blackjack Expert contains all of the powerful blackjack training features and drills our users have come to enjoy and expect in our products. The user interface has been greatly enhanced and simplified to leverage the great features of the Android and iPhone, making mastering card counting strategies on the go even easier!

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Also available... Blackjack Mentor for Android and Blackjack Mentor for iPhone.

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Also available for Windows

INTERVIEW WITH BLACKJACK TEAM MANAGER COLIN JONES by Henry Tamburin

"Henry Tamburin interviews Colin Jones, who co-founded and managed "The Church Team," one of the largest card counting teams in the past decade, taking millions from casinos along the way..."

Read Tamburin's complete article.

INCORPORATING "GRIFTER'S GAMBIT" INTO SMALL TEAM PLAY by Nathaniel Tilton

"In an effort to gather more ideas for incorporating strategies into small team play, I picked up a copy of the book Blackjack Essays by Mason Malmuth. The book explains Consolidated Betting (later renamed Grifter's Gambit). I see this as another technique for small-team play..."

Read Tilton's complete article.

THE BITCH OF THE BUFFETS by Vinny DeCarlo

"This incident occurred roughly six or seven years ago. I was working in surveillance for a Strip casino in Las Vegas when my boss asked me to figure out why their buffet was 'losing money'..."

Read DeCarlo's complete article.

LAS VEGAS BLACKJACK REPORT: PALAZZO, VENETIAN, and IMPERIAL PALACE by KC Brooks

"On the casino floor, you will find that the majority of blackjack games are eight decks. There are around forty tables with the rules; H17, DAS, RSA, and surrender. Table limits are $15-$5000, the house advantage is 0.49%, and a little less than two decks are cut off. There are seven tables of six decks with the rules; S17, DAS, RSA, and surrender. Table limits are $100-$10000, the house advantage is 0.26%, and one and a half deck's cut off..."

Read Brook's complete article.

LAS VEGAS BLACKJACK REPORT: HARRAH'S, GOLDEN NUGGET, and BELLAGIO by Stu D. Hoss

"For this month's BJI, I took a look at the casinos that readers of Casino Player magazine voted 'Best Blackjack Las Vegas'..."

Read Hoss' complete article.

MINNEAPOLIS TRIP REPORT by JPB

"It was had been less than a month since my last disastrous trip to Tunica. Fortunately, I found some decent low stakes game in Minnesota for a card counter, and even with the low stakes, I was able to make up about half of my huge loss in Tunica..."

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ATLANTIC CITY BLACKJACK REPORT by Frank Scoblete and Alene Paone

"Read the updates on the story about how Atlantic City's Golden Nugget casino got creamed at the baccarat table and get the latest playing blackjack playing conditions..."

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TIPS FOR HANDLING A TILT: FIVE WAYS TO AVOID BLOWING A BANKROLL by Basil Nestor

"It's slipping away... You can see it, and everyone else can see it, too. Embarrassing. The big tall stack of chips you had an hour ago is blunted and quickly shriveling. You have a beautiful pair of queens, but they go down in foul regicide when the dealer has a 6-5 that draws a jack for 21. Then you get another 20 but it pushes. Next comes a promising 7-4. You double down and draw an anemic 2; the dealer wins the hand with a 17. Nasty. And then the coup de grace..."

Read Nestor's complete article.

THEY DON'T MAKE 'EM LIKE THEY USED TO-Part 2 by Frank Kneeland

"This a continuation of last month's article on the history of video poker trainers..."

Read Kneeland's complete article.

BLACKJACK TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE by blackjacktournaments.com

"Check out the schedule of major blackjack tournaments in October and November by region in our Blackjack Tournament Report courtesy of blackjacktournaments.com..."

Read the tournament report.