Million Dollar Blackjack
I think Uston's million dollar blackjack had a hole card basic strategy in it, but I have not looked at the book in a while. He may also have had a modified strategy or talked about it. What I mean here is that you can never play perfect hole card strategy and expect to last on the table for any serious amount of time. You just can not be hitting your 19 when the dealer has a 20, as an example.
From off the table, watching a dealers exact method of pitching or pulling a card from a shoe, tucking and peeking, will give you an idea of where any weakness lies if there is a weakness. Then depending on what you have seen, you try to move yourself into the seat with the best possibility of a view. Sometimes that percieved weakness is not enough (unless you did actually put your chin on the table, not a good idea) but at times it will pay off good.
Quick read of the pips. This you can practice at home. Often all you will catch is a quick view of a pip or two on a card. From this you should be able to identify the card, sometimes you might be off by one.
One thing I have done for years is keep a little book on dealers that I can hole card and how and dealers that give exceptional pen. I move around and so do dealers, so without the book I might not remember them and after they move on, they may be trackable or not. Nothing suspicious about sitting at a table and asking a dealer about Joe or someone. Is he off, on vacation etc, and most often if they know him, they will tell you that he is off or has moved to X casino.
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