Regular visitors here know that I do both print interviews, which you can read by clicking the interviews link to the right, and podcast interviews which come from the radio show Gambling With an Edge which I cohost with Bob Dancer. Recently I heard that Colin and Ben of the blackjack team known as The […]
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Interview with T Dane author of Behind The Blac...
T Dane is the author of Behind The Black Dome: An Advantage Player’s Guide to Casino Surveillance. The book is new, and can be purchased at www.behindtheblackdome.com. T Dane has been working in the casino industry for a dozen years. For ten of those years he has been in casino surveillance. He has worked as […]
Darryl Purpose interview
This interview originally appeared in Blackjack Forum in 2003. The Performer Darryl Purpose is a battle-scarred veteran of the Blackjack Wars. He moved to Las Vegas at 19, and learned just enough about counting cards to lose all his money. He says, “I was the kind of counter that made Las Vegas.” He went […]
My interview with John & Laurie C. –...
This interview was conducted in 2002 The history of blackjack has many roots at MIT. Ed Thorp, author of Beat the Dealer, did his original computer analysis at MIT on their computer. When Resorts International opened in 1978 a group of MIT students combined forces to attack the casino, and the “MIT Team” was born. […]
Bob Nersesian – an advocate for players
I started playing blackjack in the 1970s, and for as long as I have been playing the casinos have abused players. Players have been forced into the backroom, had their pictures taken against their will, bounced off walls, beaten severely, had things stolen from them, and I had one team mate who a security guard threatened […]