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The blackjack was recently one of the games that are gaining ground in casinos everywhere. And one of the reasons that underlie its success is its reputation as a game where we can win. As it is easy to guess, the only thought to beat the casino with its own weapons has led many players to spend hours studying the basic strategy blackjack.

Unfortunately, even with a mastery of the basic strategy, the player can not normally have the upper hand over the dealer. It’s true, sometimes they win, but the casino took revenge quickly … The reality is that only an experienced card counter can become a winner in the long term, even if he has learned to give a chance to He can also losing party.

To reduce the risk inherent in the game, card counters at blackjack invented games as a team. Collecting their money, they increase their stakes and at the same time, they have the chance to play several tables at once. Ç has also meant several hours of play for them in any case more than if they played on their behalf.

A life dedicated to blackjack, a success story: Tommy Hyland

Throughout the history of blackjack, the most famous team manager Tommy Hyland. Since 1979, Hyland’s team wins in the American land casinos millions of dollars a year.

The first team Hyland only two people: he and his partner Leo Gulf. After meeting Doug and Dave a casino in Atlantic City, they were four to play. Until the end of the year (1979), the fund four teammates had climbed $ 16,000 to $ 100,000.

After Doug and Dave have left the team, Hyland has taught his technique to play several of his friends. They all formed a team with between 10 and 15 players. The composition of the team has changed several times and the number of members has reached a point, a big one: 40 players.

They have successfully used the techniques of counting cards, the reputation of being particularly Hyland due to the technique called “key - carding.” Hyland became the master key - carding - a method by which we come to calculate the position of As in the hoof, while carefully monitoring the distribution of cards and down. In the team Hyland, the key - carding was run by two women seated on one side and the other a big player. Thus, over 25-year career, Hyland’s team won gains of millions of dollars across the United States and abroad.

But with such a success, Hyland could not be spared the trouble. Once in a casino in the Bahamas, he was caught using a calculator hidden. And even if the use of the calculator blackjack was perfectly legal at that time, he was arrested. After two days in jail, he was given a choice: plead guilty, pay a fine of $ 100,000 and go home, or plead not guilty and wait six months in jail until trial. Obviously, he paid the fine, even if it had not guilty of any illegality.

On another occasion, a casino owner, after learning that Hyland was a card counter, was forced, under threat of a weapon, to return the money he had earned in blackjack.

In 1994, three members of the team Hyland who had used the key - carding a casino in Canada, were arrested for fraud. The prosecutor, apparently under pressure from owners, argued Thursday that the team is in itself a form of cheating. Instead, after several testimonies from both sides, the judge ruled that the defendants had not cheated, but had a very professional with skills very well developed.

Given these circumstances, Hyland was outraged by the treatment of card counters by casinos. Q It opened legal action against them in the courts of the state and put forward a petition to legislatures for laws that protect professional players.