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cosmopop1

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What are some blackjack or card counting related movies? I mean full length movies, not teaching movies. I'm thinking about one in perticular about Ed Thorpe is finding out card counting. Okay thanks.

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SPX

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cosmopop1 said:
What are some blackjack or card counting related movies? I mean full length movies, not teaching movies. I'm thinking about one in perticular about Ed Thorpe is finding out card counting. Okay thanks.

cosmopop1
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I've wondered about this myself. I don't think there's much out there. I'd also be curious to know what fiction books are out there where blackjack is a central theme.
 
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zengrifter said:
Here's a few and I know there's more -

(Dead link: http://www.blackjackinfo.com/bb/No Way Out, with David Jansen) _No Where to Run, with David Jansen_
Looking to Get Out, with Jon Voight
Stacey's Knights, with Kevin Costner
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From the film Stacey's Knights

PLOT SPOILER: Kevin introduces set up a meeting with Stacy and this mysterious old man that is so good at winning, he has some kind of deal with the casinos where they pay him off not to ever come to one. She spends the night at the old man's house playing cards. He tells her to forget the counting, the percentages, the number. Instead, concentrate on the deck. The deck is alive. Let it speak to you. He starts out by dealing 5 hands and asking her to identify the strength of each hand without turning them over. She picks the 2nd best had. He said, close. By 4AM he has her calling the card names psychically before he flips them over. He says keep going. She starts naming every card without him even flipping them over. She can see the all the cards in the deck in order and therefore can predict the result of every hand dealt on the table. She is not unstoppable. He sees her off in the morning with the farewell message that he's waited many years for her to show up. He never though she would.

Can you tell me how to learn this method it is just what I am looking for ! :)
 
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Kasi

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SPX said:
I'd also be curious to know what fiction books are out there where blackjack is a central theme.
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I read a book called "Double Down" by Frank Barthelme. It's probably actually more about the perils of gambling but blackjack is the guy's game for the most part.

He also wrote a book called "Bob the Gambler".
 
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Paradox

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The Hot Shoe

by David Layton. Ed Thorpe describes the night card counting was conceived. Its a documentary, I think you can still buy it a BJ21.

-Paradox
 
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