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> >how to
> >countdown a blackjack deck before "Beat the Dealer" was published,
>
> What was the state of card counting then? Is there evidence that
> anyone besides Dr. Thorp knew how to do it? If he wasn't the first
> one to discover it, who was?
Tom,
It is widely accepted that the first basic strategy for blackjack was published in 1956 by
Roger Baldwin, William Cantey, Herbert Maisel, and James McDermott. Their paper "The
Optimum Strategy in Blackjack" appeared in the Journal of the American Statistical
Association in September of that year.
Thorp revised, refined, and popularized their work in 1962 with his book "Beat the Dealer,"
further being refined and reprinted in 1966, which is the version that is still sold by
Random House today.
If you are interested in reading the original paper, you can find a pdf version of it online
here:
http://www.bjmath.
Bettie
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