Everyone should buy THe Blackjack Zone

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Barfarkel

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I just finished reading The Blackjack Zone and can highly recommend this book as an honest, realistic and easy-to-understand volume on what it takes to succeed in today's blackjack environment.

Eliot Jacobson puts very neatly into words many things I've tried to explain to non-AP friends about card counting, only I didn't have the word skill to express to them what I was trying to get across. If only I'd had a copy of The Blackjack Zone to quote from, I'm sure they would have understood my points much better.

Mayor, thanks a bunch for mentioning my handle in the Acknowledgements page of your wonderful book, and double thanks for sending me a signed copy. Best of luck with the book - I know it'll sell a ton of copies.

Cheers,

Barfarkel
 
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eyesfor21

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mayor=any radio interviews

for the book and to hype the paranoia of casinos...
bad games etc.
or what is planned to take it to the masses.
good luck

your living in one of the best towns in the world...bad damm its
expensive...highest real estate in the world///
monticeito..CA.. where oprah has her 40 acre estate and all.
 
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The Mayor

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Wow, thanks!

Thanks for your kind words, Barfy!

As for radio interviews, yes some things are in the works. I'll let you know time/place when it happens.

--Mayor
 
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The Mayor

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True...

>your living in one of the best towns in the world...bad damm its
expensive...highest real estate in the world///

As for housing prices, what you say is true... incredible prices for housing here. The Median price in Santa Barbara for a single family house is about 1.1 Million right now. Talk about a bubble... but the weather couldn't be nicer year around. Average summer high/low is 75/55 and average winter high/low is 65/45. There are over 300 sunny days per year. There is the beach and moutains on either side. There is no pollution. There is a lot of culture and a great university. It is, quite simply, one of the nicest places on the planet to live.

As for book hype, I am doing a lot of it -- Barnes and Nobel is in the works (our people know their people kind-of-thing). I'm avoiding Amazon for right now (they don't pay the author enough per copy), but will go that route soon. I've sent out a couple of large press releases. There is a nice review ready to come out. I have deals with a couple of radio-show hosts for programs (but I have to put together something the talking-points). And I have a pile of things in progress.

BJZone is a book for the gambling masses, and that means it needs to get out there. But there couldn't be a better time to release it, with all the hysteria surrounding poker right now, that helps all the other games.

Best,

--Mayor
 
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Victoria

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got mine as a gift

Got BJZone as a gift from the uncle who originally taught me how to count.
The book is perfect for both the new counter and the new player who might never count.
One part of the book I have not heard any comments on is the section where Mrs Mayor has something to say about being the significant other of an advantage player. My husband, a non player, read it and said he could of written it as they have similarities in situation. Something I believe is very important and left out in other books but a real part of our lives.
So, not to short change the Mayor, but if no one else has, I would like to compliment his significant other on her contribution.

Victoria
 
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Garo

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I agree with MAyor

His book will help advanced players because it takes a different look at what card counting is, and anyone can only be helped by looking at blackjack differently. Also there is a chapter on being the spouse of a card counter that I appreciated.
 
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