Hosted by "Charlie", a blackjack aficionado with 35 years of casino experience under his hat, goes under heavy disguise in this instructional DVD so that he can reveal to you his winning blackjack strategies and secrets while protecting his true identity from the casino officials in Las Vegas and Atlantic City.
Produced by BlackjackForWinners.com, Everything You Need to Know about Blackjack to Win delivers more than just the basics; it gives you valuable information on how to use basic strategy to become efficient at card counting, variation plays and money management.
According to Charlie, there are really only three steps to winning at blackjack:
1. Basic StrategyBefore you can even think about moving onto card counting you have to have the basics down. Successful blackjack players all start with a basic strategy, which basically requires you to know when to "hit" or "stand" on hard totals, soft totals and pairs. Not to worry, the basic strategy chart included with this DVD shows you how to play your first two cards (based on the dealers up card). Knowing which pairs to split in blackjack, however, can help turn a weak hand such as 8-8 into two better hands of 8. This also allows you to double your money when you have an advantage against the house.
Like basic blackjack strategy, card counting requires a fair amount of memorization. (Basic strategy and card counting go hand-in-hand, in fact.) But card counting is also an effective way of tilting the house odds in your favor. So if you intend on building a sizable bankroll this is one strategy highly recommended by blackjack pros like Charlie.
"Get the basic strategy down first," Charlie urges. "Then you can use my simple card counting technique to win at blackjack without getting banned by the casinos."
And with regards to money management, Charlie's advice is simple: keep your emotions out of the game. "I do not want to see you get emotional playing blackjack," Charlie says.
A good understanding of money management when playing blackjack will allow you to ride out a series of losing hands without losing your cool. And if you think that just because you've got the basic strategy down and you've got card counting down to a fine art you are not guaranteed to win every hand. Money management basics, along with a basic strategy and good card counting skills, will remove the house edge and put you on a winning track. If you win more than you lose - that's success.
To ensure you win more than you lose, Charlie has included a helpful basic strategy card, flash cards and a bonus DVD. The bonus disc comes complete with a question and answer component, interesting anecdotes from Charlie himself on some of the blackjack players he's met along his journey towards becoming a blackjack pro, and a practice session with a woman who, like you, is clearly just starting to learn the basics.
Is Everything You Need to Know about Blackjack to Win worth buying? Absolutely. Charlie isn't going to win any acting or stand-up comedy awards for his performance in this video, but he does what he sets out to do - he gives you all the tools you need to win at blackjack.
What you Get: 2 DVD's, Strategy Card, Set of Flash Cards
Price: $29.95
Where to Buy: BlackjackForWinners.com