Casino Gambling:
I came to know Jerry Patterson from dealing with some of his former partners.
These people have been using Jerry's techniques for years, and selling them
for big bucks over the Internet. Some fellow gamblers told me they were
using Jerry's material, and so I began looking for Jerry's work. I then came across
Blackjack: A Winners Handbook. I first looked the book over in a library, then bought
it for my own library. I learned many interesting things about playing Blackjack from this book.
Have a look at the following article Realistic Goals for the Part-time Pro.
Later on I ran into Jerry on an e-mail group I belong to. I let him know how much I enjoyed his book, and offered to review any other work he had coming out. Jerry sent me Casino Gambling: A Winner's Guide to Blackjack, Craps, Roulette, Baccarat, and Casino Poker. He is also updating his Blackjack Winner's Handbook, so watch for a full review of this in the near future.
Originally, I started my "gambling career" playing Roulette. I played progressions and never ran into the long run of things, escaping with my money and nerves in tact. I realised shortly there after that Blackjack's house edge could be busted, and began down that road. I have also played Bacc and Craps, mostly for fun against the low house edge, again with progressions that never toped 3 or 4 unit bets. Poker I have played from time to time with friends, but it is my dear old Dad that is the Poker player in my family. Basically, I've played all the games Jerry writes about in his book to some degree or another.
On the cover, you'll see How to become an "Advantage Player". An Advantage Player is defined as any player that can actually hold an advantage over the casino. Blackjack, Poker, T-bred horses, and Sports Betting have always been known as the "Big 4" W type games (W = win-able). How the heck is Jerry going to turn the 5.26% house edge in Roulette into an advantage? What about the 1.14% Craps house edge?
Becoming an Advantage Player has us looking to alter the random outcome of the dice in Craps with "Controlled Throwing." For Roulette, we look for Roulette Croupier who are giving a discernable "Dealer Signature", creating for us exploitable non-random results. In Blackjack, again we look for the dealer's shuffling and pick-up procedures to create player favorable conditions. Fantastic!
Take a visit to Jerry's site at casinogamblingedge.com. "Split from the masses of losing casino gamblers . . leave them behind with powerful winning gambling systems that turn the tables on the casinos". There is a page on Blackjack, Craps, and Roulette. Read the testimonials. This book has a lot to offer anyone going into a casino that plays the table games.
Jerry turned the Blackjack community on it's ear back in the 80's by proclaiming that multi-decked Blackjack games were killing counters due to their non-random card groupings from the wash and shuffle. Players 1-2% advantages became non-existent for periods during the play of shoes and wiped them out at times. Jerry came up with methods to keep counting players in their 1-2% advantage during random games AND to take advantage of these non-random decks (or parts of decks), possibly increasing the over all player advantage. It is no wonder to me that Jerry has put together methods to create non-random effects with dice, or spot non-random effects created by a Roulette dealer going through the motions over and over again.
Have you ever watched professional dart players as they play? It amazes me how they can almost put the dart into triple 20 over and over again. "Controlled Throwing" brings this picture to mind. With the right dice set up and a proper throwing method, a player can decrease or increase the number of 7's they throw. I can just imagine the achievable % advantage to this!
What about knowing about 5 numbers on the Roulette wheel that the dealer is not likely to hit with their obvious dealer signature? This would be very nice indeed. How about knowing 5 numbers the dealer is VERY likely to hit with their next ball? Let Jerry introduce you to the "Power Sector Method".
Jerry covers Blackjack in this book as well. In chapter 7, he covers the multi-deck game winning strategy. A risk aversive basic strategy is introduced, and card counters recommendations are also given to help keep biases from killing them. Chapter 8 deals with single and double deck games, which are still very beatable with counting. Again, Jerry has some interesting ways to play them.
Baccarat doesn't have any beatable biases, but it is streaky, or choppy at times. Jerry gives some playing tips for people that want to play this game at the recreational level.
And now, the moment we've all been waiting for, the one paragraph that will basically sum up the
review of Casino Gambling: A Winner's Guide to Blackjack, Craps, Roulette, Baccarat, and Casino Poker:
"Jerry Patterson's book Casino Gambling: A Winner's Guide to Blackjack, Craps, Roulette, Baccarat, and Casino Poker
brings together unique, understandable ways of finding or creating the circumstances that will change the outcome of
your bets. YOU can become an "Advantage Player", by using the Power Sector Method in Roulette,
Controlled Throwing in Craps, and CCS and Ride the Bias for the multi-deck Blackjack games of today. Packed with
interesting information from front to back, filled with the thoughts and findings of Jerry's 44 years gambling experience,
this book is a definite "have-to-have" in any gamblers library. On top of all that, you are getting THREE
gambling systems in one book for $13.95US! Beat that!"