Ken Uston was one of the most colorful and influential people in the history of the game of Blackjack. He and his teams were famous for making money from the casinos by counting cards, using computers, etc.. He was personally famous for the depth and intensity of his legal challenges of the casinos’ perceived right to exclude he and his teammates from playing there. This book is a collection of his several times a year newsletters which primarily chronicle his legal battles against the casinos of Atlantic City, NJ in an attempt to restore his right to play Blackjack during the early 1980s.
The book is simply the binding of all 13 of these newsletters into a single volume, with a forward describing the conditions of the time, a reprint of his paper Does the Gaming Industry Have (or Need) a Conscience? and his tongue-in-cheek predictions about the future of the game of Blackjack. Aside from the story of the legal battles, these newsletters contained information on the current Blackjack conditions in the Atlantic City casinos and elsewhere, casino countermeasures and general casino news, the use of computers to beat Blackjack, various rules and special offers of interest to Blackjack players, etc.. Much of this information was valuable at the time, but is merely of minor historical note now. However, the story of his legal battles is of serious historical significance in this history of Blackjack and casino gambling in general.
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