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Blackjack Hall of Fame: Arnold Snyder Player and Author
Arnold Snyder has been involved – on some level or other - with professional blackjack for more than 30 years. Above all, however, his books and writing were the keys to the gates of the Blackjack Hall of Fame as one of the original seven inductees. Snyder’s first book, “The Blackjack Formula,” was published in 1980 and, along with a few other important tomes on the subject, changed the face of professional blackjack.
Deck Penetration in Blackjack
Snyder’s calling card was his introduction to and explanation of the concept of deck penetration as it relates to card counting. Penetration, also known as “depth of deal,” refers to the number of cards that are dealt before reshuffling. For Snyder, penetrating the deck was more important than card-counting systems or strategy. His theory is that for a card counter the deeper into the deck(s) the game has gone, the better it is; the more cards that have been dealt out, the more cards the counter sees, and it follows that the more cards the counter sees, the more accurate the count. This is one of the basics of card counting today; but in 1980, when “The Blackjack Formula” was published, penetration was a groundbreaking concept.
Snyder’s Blackjack Forum
For the last 25 years, Snyder has been the editor of the “Blackjack Forum,” a gambling journal, which now appears online. Snyder also published “The Poker Tournament Formula,” applying a similar mathematical analysis to poker that he did to blackjack in 1980. But blackjack has always been his first love; his book “Black Belt in Blackjack” is considered a major work on the subject of card counting and it contains other useful techniques for the professional blackjack player. He further “penetrates” the subject of blackjack in the comprehensive and fascinating “Big Book of Blackjack,” which explores the history of the game. It also includes chapters on playing blackjack, basic strategy, card-counting systems, team play, and the ongoing war between the players and the casinos.
Rights of Gamblers
Like many professional blackjack players, Snyder has tangled with the law although not on a personal level. He is a strong supporter of the rights of professional gamblers in general and the pro blackjack player in particular. He has come to bat for a number of players who went head to head in court with casinos, arguing for the right of the card-counting teams to practice their talents at the tables. He has become something of an expert witness on the subject because the truth is that nobody knows blackjack better than Arnold Snyder.
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