What I really appreciate was that he was a really good writer. “Arnold Snyder was an innovator in blackjack, and every serious player in the ‘80s looked forward to his ‘Blackjack Forum’ every quarter.

In 2004 Snyder moved the publication of Blackjack Forum from print to online due to time constraints imposed by playing more frequently and the frustration with dealing with the business side of the publication industry.” - Wikipedia Since 1981, Arnold Snyder has been the editor of ‘Blackjack Forum,’ a quarterly trade journal for professional gamblers. “He was the first blackjack authority to publish the importance of deck penetration (depth of the deal) in card counting, in his 1980 book ‘The Blackjack Formula.’ He was also the first blackjack researcher to publish (in Blackjack Forum, 1981–1983) that radical simplification of blackjack card counting systems did not hurt earnings. Personally, I will miss The Bishop dearly.” – Casino operator, author and table game consultant Bill Zender Arnold’s books such as ‘Blackbelt in Blackjack,’ the ‘Blackjack Formula,’ and ‘The Shuffle Tracker’s Cookbook’ were groundbreaking manuscripts that provided the uninformed public with mostly hope, but also information allowing them the possibility of gaining a small advantage over a casino game. Card counting made the game of Blackjack the most popular table game in the casino, and the ‘The Bishop’ was a major influencer that put it there. Since the early ‘60s, the discovery of counting cards to beat the game of Blackjack has been both a curse and a blessing to the casino industry. “The gambling industry lost a Blackjack pioneer with the passing of author, mathematician, and advantage player, ‘The Bishop’ Arnold Snyder.

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