2005 Blackjack Hall of Fame Nominees

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Radar

Active Member
With All Due Respects

"Anyone from a total ploppy to a seasoned professional can extract more value from the material in 'Comp City' than he can from 'Blackjack Attack.' And that's what this is all about, right?"

If you take a peek in the briefcase of any traveling AP Blackjack player, I would surmise that you would find many MORE copies of "BJA" inside than you will ever find "Comp City".

This is taking nothing away from Max, but Don DID provide the community with the I18 that is as important to us as Ed Thorp's "Beat the Dealer". Has Max provided us with anything remotely as valuable?

Seriously, why is it that Don's name is not even on the list of POSSIBLE inductees that will allow us to vote for him? I would have thought he would have at LEAST deserved a chance for people's votes by now. Ian Andersen made the candidates list this year, and deservedly so. I would say he has done more for the BJ community, as a whole, than others currently inducted. Smells like cronyism to me, for sure.
 
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eyesfor21

Well-Known Member
zen

Stu Ungar, one of the worlds best players,
played perfect blackjack: a system that is a lot more difficult
than any counting system and will reap
results that are far more superior..
catch my drift..
 
zengrifter

zengrifter

Banned
I have never heard...

... any Stuey/BJ story that implies that he was anything but a high-variance gambler at BJ... same as his forays into roulette. zg
 
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Sohrab

Active Member
Stuey had extraordinary memory

for cards. He had standing offer about memorizing many decks, cards dealt, identify exact missing cards. No one would bet with him. Also he was top gin rummy player of all time.

Many poker players start at blackjack and got barred and turned to poker.
 
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eyesfor21

Well-Known Member
exactly sohrab

so much more than counting..
its called perfect blackjack..how many can count down a
6 deck shoe without counting get down to 5 decks and
could read the remainder of the cards left.This superb method
is very difficult to learn alot more accurate which
is why few have the ability but Stu did.
 
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