Max Rubin

Max is the author of Comp City, first published in 1994, with an expanded second edition published in 2002. In this groundbreaking book, Max exposed techniques even non-counting players could use to get an advantage over the casinos by exploiting weaknesses in the casinos' comp systems. Max's inside information came from his years of experience in the industry as a dealer, pit boss, and casino manager. Max still does consulting work for the Barona Casino in California.

The initial manuscript for Comp City included advanced comp-hustling techniques that could be used by professional card counters, but the editors at Huntington Press decided to delete this section from the book in order to appeal to the wider market of recreational players. These excluded portions were published in Blackjack Forum in June 1994, and can be found now in the BlackjackForumOnline.com Library.

In the mid-1990s, he started hosting the Blackjack Ball, a secret annual event for professional players, where he serves as Game Master as many of the top pros compete for the Blackjack Cup and the title of World's Best Blackjack Player.

Now, as a host of the Game Show Network's World Series of Blackjack, Max Rubin has become one of the most visible public advocates of professional players.

Raise your income with Basic Strategy Plus

While you might gain in during one particular day, in the long you will probably grind yourself down if you play long and often enough.

An enhanced basic strategy - also called Basic Strategy Plus - is essential for you to accelerate from being an average player to being a serious recreational player who has better chanced to win over the long periods.

To lower the small edge against you with Basic Strategy moreover, and at times turn it into a precise edge in your liking, you only must be attentive to the cards on the table and evolve some proportion sense of high cards versus low cards residual in the card batch. This is just what a card counter is doing.

Anyway, you aren't obliged spending all the hours it takes to befit an expert card counter. By "counting the table" you might get a main sense of the high against low cards proportion. It simply means that in any given hand, you look at the unprotected cards for each hand on the table, the dealer's hand included. Then quickly count of all the high cards and all the low cards. The number of both is equal.

If the number of low cards is much larger than high cards, for example in blackjack, there are chances that the batch is a little ampler in high cards. That is propitious for the player. On the contrary, if the quantity of low cards is in advantage, which means the deck is now richer in low cards. That is unfortunate for the player.

Armed with the gained information, you are able to adjust your play consequently and thus play a little more like an expert.

There are some shave calls with Basic Strategy that might be perfected later with Basic Strategy Plus, same as other resolutions that may be done now more sagaciously.