It's in the Book: Winning Ways - How to Beat the Casinos

By Richard De La Torre

Most gaming books tell you too much fluff, razzle dazzle and too many pages on the one subject that is not needed. This book is designed to cut to the chase, giving you quick knowledge of blackjack, roulette, and craps. In blackjack using card recognition is an unbalance of face cards vs. face value cards, doubling down hitting twelve when the dealer is weak, also not taking even money of insurance by understanding the ratios are in your favor. Learning how to count every card in a six or eight deck shoe by using simple math. There are times tables to follow when you end up with stiff hands, you’ll make better decisions to hit or stand. Roulette has high and low percentages on each bet. Cut the house edge down by using the ratios against them. Cutting the pie is one way using sections of the wheel. Betting on columns or first, second, or third twelve’s only. There are many roulette dealers that can be very friendly or clever! Craps, there are a great deal of good and bad bets. By hedge betting on certain bets, you can cut down your losses. There are many ways to hedge bet. Most players use some type of hedge betting and don’t even know it. This book goes in to a great deal of hedge betting and money management. Money management is so important in all gambling games. There are a lot of gamblers that don’t use money management skills. Don’t be that gambler! Pick up this book, and cut the house percentage down.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Page Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Apr 20, 2017
• ISBN: 9781684097241

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WINNING

WAYS

Richard De La Torre

Copyright © 2017 Richard De La Torre

All rights reserved

First Edition

PAGE PUBLISHING, INC.

New York, NY

First originally published by Page Publishing, Inc. 2017

ISBN 978-1-68409-723-4 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-1-68409-724-1 (Digital)

Printed in the United States of America

BLACKJACK WINNING WAYS

A HOT SHOE

It was summertime, 1997. I walked into Harrah’s Las Vegas Casino looking around thinking to myself, What should I play? Horses, craps, poker, blackjack? As I walked by a blackjack table the dealer said, Try your luck here. No one’s played here for two hours. So I took his advice and bought in for $300. I started out with my usual $10 two hands. As cards were being dealt, the count went high in just a few hands.

As I played on, the count went from 25 to 40 in 15 hands. But I was playing two hands, so in reality, there were 30 hands that had been dealt. I looked over to the discard rack to see if the count was a true count. Every card counter knows if the count gets very high in just 15 to 20 cards, that isn’t a true count. Between doubling down, splitting, and playing two hands, about 130 cards have been discarded. So the count was a true count.

Since I was way up, I increased my bet from $10 on each hand to $20, then $40, then $60, not making small or large swings. By the time the shoe was over, I made a $1,285 profit. The dealer said to me, You should go home. You got lucky. Some people don’t make that kind of money in two weeks! My somewhat angry reply was, You think this is a lot of money? Believe me, the casinos won’t miss $1,300. I colored up and walked away.

I was up and already had a few drinks in me. I didn’t want to go home. You should never count cards and drink. I know this, but sometimes in life, you gotta say, F**k it! and go for it. Most professional gamblers would say to my statement, Absolutely not, stick to the rules. I agree, but many professionals have broken their rules at one time or another.

So I drove over to the Riviera Casino. It was the first time I had played there. I sat down to play blackjack and ordered a rum & Coke. There were two other players at the table. I waited for a new shoe. The dealer burned the first card, and we started the game. As we all played on, time went by…one hour, two hours. I was up, then down. Up. Down. Then we caught a good shoe. We were making hand after hand.

By this time, I had one too many drinks so I stopped drinking. Then I noticed the floor manager was watching me. I turned to my left, and there was another floor manager about 30 feet away watching me. I was thinking, Did I give myself away? I don’t think so. I played two more hands, then colored up. I made a $2,800 profit. That’s not a lot of money to get that kind of attention, I thought.

Unbeknownst to me, the MIT blackjack team was still in town at this time. I had never heard of this team before. All the casinos were on their toes looking for this infamous team. I found out about the MIT team in 1998. Maybe the managers thought I was part of the team!? I had run $300 up to $2,800; that’s why the casinos were watching me.

I went to the cage, cashed out, left the Riviera, and never went back.

SUBJECT: BLACKJACK

If the first face up card dealt to the dealer is a 2 through 9 and a player has blackjack, he shall announce blackjack, and unless the player has requested to double down, the dealer shall pay the blackjack at odds of 3 to 2. All players blackjack will be paid in the order in which they were dealt.

If the first face up card dealt to the dealer is a king, queen, jack, or ten and a player has a blackjack, the dealer shall announce the blackjack, but shall make no payment nor