The main star of the story of blackjack card counting history is Edward Thorp, the man who wrote about and brought the world’s attention to the most famous strategy for the game. The book he wrote, “Beat the Dealer”, was published in 1962, and can safely be said to have changed the face of the game entirely. He was not the first man to create or even use this method, however, and the long blackjack card counting history proves that it was a strategy invoked long before Mr Thorp made it so widely known. Read more
