Arnold Snyder's Blackjack Forum

Players who want to know if they could become winning blackjack players should start with A First Year of Card Counting, a realistic and funny account of card counting as a part-time avocation.

Card-counting is not the only way to beat blackjack, but it's the first step toward the advanced strategies professional gamblers use to make a lot of money at the game.

Players who want to start learning how to win at blackjack should start with our Intro to Winning Blackjack. Once you’ve got a feel for the game and are ready to start practicing your playing strategy (though not card counting) online—we recommend checking out these online blackjack sites from Online-Casinos-Canada or the online casinos at bestonlineblackjack.com.

If you are considering a career as a professional gambler, we suggest you start with our Blackjack Forum Professional Gambling Library, the largest source of honest professional blackjack, poker and online gambling information on the Web.

Inside you will find articles by Blackjack Hall of Fame members Arnold Snyder, Ken Uston, Stanford Wong, James Grosjean, Max Rubin, Peter Griffin, and Richard W. Munchkin, plus interviews with Tommy Hyland, Al Francesco, Keith Taft, Johnny C., manager of the MIT blackjack team, Darryl Purpose and other great blackjack players who have made gambling history.

There is even info on beating slots, roulette, lotteries and keno—in brick-and-mortar casinos and online—in our library. If these guides get you tempted then you can find further information and recommended sites to play at this online casinos portal.

INTRO TO WINNING BLACKJACK

Intro to Winning Blackjack     By Arnold Snyder

Blackjack Hype vs. Blackjack Reality

What Card Counting is Really Like

Do You Have What It Takes to Win?

Blackjack Card Counting--Why It Works

Learn Blackjack Basic Strategy

Easy Red 7 Card Counting System

Easier OPP Card Counting System

Free Card Counting Practice Software

The "Best" Card Counting System

Win Money Playing Blackjack and Other Games at Online Casinos

Yes, they pay. No, I'm not kidding. Some of the best blackjack and gambling opportunities available right now are in the online casinos.

If you are interested in playing blackjack or other games in online casinos, see the Blackjack Forum Win Online section, with our online blackjack strategy and all the how-to info you need to get started. No get-rich-quick baloney. Just the facts about how to win.

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Free Blackjack Card Counting Systems and Software: The PowerSim Project

For free easy card counting systems, see our complete instructions for the Easy OPP Card Counting System (the easiest system ever developed) and the Easy Red 7 System (a slightly more difficult but also more powerful system).

For a simple but powerful professional-level card counting system (in fact, the count I use myself), see The Hi-Lo Lite.

ETFan has contributed his open source PowerSim blackjack and card counting simulation software.

PowerSim comes ready to run fast, powerful and accurate traditional blackjack and card counting simulations that provide the information you need for comparing games and card counting strategies,and calculating risk and bankroll requirements, optimal bets, advantage and win rate for a wide variety of blackjack games and rules sets.

The programmable PowerSim is also easily modified by players to run new types of simulations. This has led to simulations of the new and innovative OPP Count for beginning players.

Also free: Download free card counting practice software and Sam Case's blackjack card counting strategy index generator directly below. The strategy index generator produces strategy index numbers for any balanced card counting system. You put in the count values and true count method for any counting system you are researching, and the generator will tell you the true count at which to change your playing strategy.  ♠

FREE Card Counting Practice Software

Free Blackjack Card Counting Strategy Index Generator

Quick Links:

 Blackjack and Betting Systems: Is Oscar's System a Winner?

 The First Card Counters:
Edward O. Thorp's 1962 Blackjack Card Counting Trip

 Interview With Blackjack Hall of Fame Player Ken Uston

 The Blackjack Hall of Fame

 Online Poker Hell - Playing Multi-Table Online Poker

 Hey Rube, Las Vegas Welcomes You

Arnold Snyder was elected by professional gamblers as one of the original seven inductees to the Blackjack Hall of Fame for his radical Red 7 card counting system and his other innovative professional gambling strategies and innovations.

Learn winning blackjack and online blackjack strategy, with and without card counting, from the top professional blackjack players in the world at Arnold Snyder's Blackjack Forum Online.

Arnold Snyder's Blackjack Forum professional gambling library has over 100 articles by professional gamblers, including Blackjack Hall of Fame member James Grosjean, Richard W. Munchkin, and great blackjack player Nick Alexander, on blackjack card counting, blackjack betting strategy, blackjack ace location, blackjack shuffle tracking, hole-carding, how to win at online blackjack with the top rated online casino bonuses, blackjack tournaments, casino surveillance and card counting, card cheating at blackjack and poker, interviews with the managers of the top blackjack card counting teams, and a lot more.

The Blackjack Forum site provides free card counting systems from easy to professional, professional gamblers' comparisons of card counting systems, practical tips for winning with card counting and without card counting, and state of the art blackjack card counting simulation software. Whether you would like to make a living as a professional gambler or just start winning when you play (in a land-based casino or online), join us at Arnold Snyder's Blackjack Forum.