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Revere Gave the World the Basic Blackjack Strategy Chart
It is a matter of opinion, of course, but to many blackjack gurus, Lawrence Revere can be considered the Master of Blackjack. Revere is the author of "Playing Blackjack as a Business," which engraved his name in blackjack history. Revere's name will be forever connected with his beloved game, which is ironic since Lawrence Revere was not his real name. He was born Griffith Owens, and Lawrence Revere was just one of a few pseudonyms that he used over the course of his lifetime. Revere was a much-admired player in the 1960s and 70s and died in 1977; in 2005 - he was inducted into the Blackjack Hall of Fame.
Gambling was Revere's life; he first made a living behind the table - as a pit boss and a dealer - before moving to professional gambling for his livelihood. He was an expert card counter and taught his craft to lucky students of the game. He had a reputation as a slick operator but, in time, he gained legitimacy. The regular, non-card-counting blackjack player - the land-based and online blackjack player who plays according to the basic blackjack strategy - can thank Lawrence Revere every time he wins a hand, for it was he who invented the strategy chart, the color-coded graph that you find online and in books that tells you exactly when to hit and stand when you're playing blackjack. Decades later, millions of amateur blackjack players still refer to Revere's chart whenever they sit down at the blackjack table or at their computer.
Lawrence Revere was the Consummate Blackjack Player
At a very young age - barely into his teens - Lawrence Revere was already a card shark. Like many blackjack pros, Revered majored in math while he was at university - blackjack and mathematics always seemed to go hand in hand, and a fascination with one always seemed to lead to an attraction to the other. Of all the Blackjack Hall of Famers, Revere's career as a professional gambler goes back the furthest - he was already making money as a pro in the early 1940s. Twenty-five years later Revere sealed his fate as a blackjack legend with the publication of his book "Playing Blackjack as a Business."
Revere's landmark book, is arguably the best how-to book every written about blackjack and card counting. It explains in detail a number of different card-counting systems, including the famous Revere Point Count, which he developed along with Julian Braun (a fellow Blackjack Hall of Famer). It was in this book that Revere first published his groundbreaking strategy charts, which are still relevant and useful today. Revere's "Reverse Plus Minus Strategy" was so important that Edward O. Thorp included it in his own landmark work, "Beat the Dealer." Thirty-five years after publication, Lawrence Revere's book, "Playing Blackjack as a Business" is still the all-time best-selling book on the subject of blackjack and Lawrence Revere's name is firmly imprinted in blackjack history.
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