In the early 1970s, card counting became big business. One of the most creative and successful
players from that time (or any time) was Al Francesco, who had been playing since 1963 and had traveled with Lawrence Revere for a while. As a poker player, Al knew that the best way for a
player to make money was to disguise his strength from his opponents, but he couldn’t figure out a way that a card counter could do this at a blackjack table. Then, in 1971, it hit him. That
year, Al started his first blackjack teams, using the Big Player (BP) approach. It was the method he’d been seeking for eight years.
Here’s how it happened. Al was in a casino with his brother, who was also a card counter, and his brother was playing dollar blackjack, spreading from $1 to $5 while they were killing time before dinner. Al wasn’t playing, but was standing beside the table talking to friends. On a whim, whenever he noticed his brother had a $5 bet on the table, Al would shoot out a $100 bet, knowing that the count must be high, but
otherwise paying no attention to the game. He did this for about half an hour. As he was walking out of the casino, however, the pit boss chased him down. To Al’s amaze¬ment, the boss had caught up with him in order to offer him dinner or a room, telling Al that he was the type of player the casino wanted to cultivate as a customer.
Within weeks, Al was training three players to count cards and signal him when the count was high. He was the first Big Player. The strategy proved to be a huge success, and within a year,
Al Francesco had more than twenty players trained as spotters, and three BPs that he could mix and match with his spotters in different casinos on playing trips. This team approach was a major
advance in professional blackjack strategy. Blackjack teams today still use Al’s BP approach with great
success.
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March 4th, 2010 at 8:48 pm
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March 4th, 2010 at 9:41 pm
another critical state for the world !
March 6th, 2010 at 5:22 am
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March 6th, 2010 at 5:37 am
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March 6th, 2010 at 9:55 am
Speaking of losers…
Seems there is a bit of hypocracy going on.
Watch out for braindead “Namecallers”. people… for they haven’t a clue.
March 6th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
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March 6th, 2010 at 10:54 pm
i can say there’s more going on in the world then you or i understand. But i don’t think its some stupid little mind game or power trip played by rich people. Yeah i know there’s sick twisted people in the world but they’re a minority, a very small minority not even a percent of a percent
March 8th, 2010 at 2:08 am
@ skinnywhop87 – Can you really look at the the events going on at the moment and say there is not truth to anything we are saying? Man, I’m not saying buy into it, I’m asking truly, can you see it just a little bit?
March 8th, 2010 at 4:31 am
@ skinnywhop87 – Coming from some sheep coward with not a single video of his own talking about anything, trust me what you have to say means so very much to us.