Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One Free Audiobook Download by Edward O. Thorp

Edward O. Thorp, a gambling math expert, devised a strategy to beat the dealer and win at Blackjack called the "shoe game." In this strategy, players bet their entire hand when dealt an ace and count the number of total cards in their hand to obtain a point value for each card. Jacks have 11 points, queens have 12, kings have 13, jacks have 10 points and so on. When the dealer has a blackjack or 21 points with his first two cards, the player can get paid even more than double-down is allowed.

Edward Thorp is a card-counter and mathematician who, in the late 1960s, developed a strategy for dealing cards that allowed him to beat any game of twenty-one at blackjack. Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One by Edward O. Thorp is an audiobook download narrated by Marc Cashman that is a great way to learn more about card counting techniques.

Robert Heinlein wrote a timeless work in his book 'Stranger in a Strange Land', which is also the movie of the same name. The protagonist, a human raised by Martians, is an ex-veteran of the interplanetary wars and finds himself stranded on Earth where he has learned to speak English by reading books.

One of the world's leading experts on gambling, Edward Thorp, who was considered one of the first people to use an algorithm to beat the odds at blackjack, set out to show how he could apply his algorithmic approach to a new game- Twenty-One. The result is this book and audiobook which discusses all aspects of how Thorp used his techniques in this classic card game.

"Beat the Dealer" is a book about how to win at poker. It details how Edward O. Thorp was able to beat the casino, and not just one or two casinos either - he won against some of the biggest names in the game, including Doyle Brunson and Puggy Pearson.

A quick read that provides a very interesting story on how to win at the game of 21. It's about a mathematician and card counter who eventually gets caught for cheating in casinos. He later makes a living by teaching others how to beat the games, but not before he gets rich from the lessons himself.