Break the dealer: winning strategies for today's blackjack [Mass Market Paperback]

Jerry L. Patterson (Author)

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Perigee Trade (September 1, 1986)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399512330
• ISBN-13: 978-0399512339
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 0.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,662,578 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars When to sit down and when to leave a table, August 9, 2004

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John Hancock (Denver, Colorado) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Break the dealer: winning strategies for today's blackjack (Mass Market Paperback)

While somewhat dated, this book still contains very valuable information and strategies that are hard to find information about.

It was one of the first books to offer a system to counteract the ways the cards are shuffled and "washed." Includes table selection methods and suggestions players can use to CREATE a favorable game.

My favorite sections are the chapters on "Casino Tips and Strategies" and "Money Management."

Highly recommended.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars "The First Book To Describe Biases & Table Selection"., August 14, 2010

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M. Mariba "the teacher" (pretoria, south africa) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Break the dealer: winning strategies for today's blackjack (Mass Market Paperback)

This is a classic book that describes biases that occur in Blackjack (BJ) tables leading to either players winning or losing titled "Break The Dealer" by the legendary BJ player & author Jerry L. Patterson. He was the first BJ expert to have noted the ineffectiveness of "Card Counting" once casinos introduced changes/countermeasures to the BJ games [After a wide acknowledgement by BJ experts & "Casino Establishments" that concepts described by an earlier classical book "Beat The Dealer", were very effective against the then prevalent BJ games (single & double deck games)!]. He identified "winning factors" that point to tables were players are likely to win. These "winning factors" as known as TARGET (TAble, Research, Grading & Evaluation Technique) factors that are used for table selection : table entry (when present = player-biased tables or dealer-breaking tables) & departure (when absent = casino-biased tables). But the book contains much more valuable information than TARGET factors including money management & other casino tips! The book is a classic & old but still very relevant today in the era of predominately Multiple-Deck Games & Shuffling Machines. A recommended reading by legendary author, Jerry L. Patterson who has been teaching his students BJ (Jerry Patterson Blackjack Clinic) since 1977.