.rx Show ,.-----""~·-_._~-~-~.~-"y~--~-';,....~-~~· ~. } 6V This book fs dedicated to !295"" , [;t;~- my wife VJ.VlAN rs- and mY children~ ·-·,"Nand JEPPJU!.Y. !1[,(:; llUAN,~ \ ·Copyright C 1962, 1966 by Edward 0. Thorp AD righfi reserved under International and Pan-~CIO\ Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Randcim H~. Inc., New York. Distributed i~ Canada by Random - House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally pulllished by Random House, Inc., in 1966. The quotation from Paul ONeil's ankle in Ufo Magazine appears courtesy Lifo .Magazine @ 1964 Time Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data ;-'· Thorp, Edward 0. Beat the dealer. Reprint of the 1966 ed. Bibliography: p. 1. Blackjack (Game) I. Tide. [GV129,.B,T5 1973) 795.4'2 72-8006 ISBN 0-394-70310-3 Manu&ctuted in the United States of America Vintage Books Edition, February 1966 tl \J' ~i 6}. ~- !'. .. · Acknowledgments I am. Indebted to Roger R. Baldwin, Wilbur E. Cantey. Herbert Maisel, and 1~ P. McDermott for making avale c ablo the computational details of their work on blackjack and to the M~T. Computation Center for making available an mM 704 computer. I wish to thank the many friends and colleagues who have mado valuable suggestions, particularly Protesson. Claude E. Sh8D110J1, Berthold Schweizer, Abo Sklar, an4 Elbert Walker. I am indebted to ViVian and James Thorp for the long hours they spent playing the part of "'tho house.• For showing me ~y of the metboda and devices 1l8ecl by casinos in cheating and for &Wing me a largo amouDt of . pneral information on the world of gambling, I owe a great deal to Michael MacDougall. former special inYCStigitor for the Nevada Gaming Control Board, to some of the old-tim.o.· Nevada •coUDt" playen, and to a certain crooked Nmda · card mechanic. Conversations with a certain federal invcstiptor have given me a largo amount of information about -~ the iDside 1Ctivitit8 and the out-of-state c:onnectioM of .cel'o tain Nevada casinos. Last, but not least, I wish to thaDt tho two milJjonaires who financed the highly tucCessful easiDO test of my SJSle.ll1 tbat is reported in ChapterS. ffe··· [f ·viii ~ : The resqlts of the first edition have been ~ al)41. improved by the extensive researches of Iulian Braun Of the IBM corporation. He has made most of the calculations . for tho point-count method and has made numerous detailed an4 \'aluable suggestions. I am grateful to him for allowing his work to be incorporated into the second edi· tion. I particularly wish to thank William B. Walden for tho related work he has done with moon Nevada baccarat. Thanks to Paul O'Neil·for the integrity and journaJis. tic clarity with which he portrayed Beat the Dealer and its author in Life magazine. Thanks also to Life for its courageous stand in printing the truth despite hostile Nevada mobsters and politicos. . I wish to thank many leaden for. their helpful sugp dons, ideas, personal experionces. and testimonials, and for proving the book again and again in theusinos. ,_ Finally, thanks to the readmofthefilst edition of Beat f
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