Ken Uston

Ken Uston (born the January 12th 1935, dead the September 19th 1987 with Paris) was a famous player américan of blackjack. He acquired his fame thanks to his techniques of card counter at the beginning of the Années 1970.

Biography

Regarded as a genius in mathematics with a IQ of 169, Uston had entered to the Université of Yale at 16 years and obtained later a MBA with the Université of Harvard. It climbed quickly in the hierarchy of finance and became vice-president of the Pacific Stock Exchange with San Francisco.

Fascinated by the Game theory, in particular when it is applied to the blackjack, it joined in 1974 a team of professional players who counted the charts to have an advantage on the casino. After having gained hundreds of thousands of dollars, the team of Uston was uncovered by the casino S and her banished members of Las Vegas. The exubérance of Uston at the time of the parts sowed the doubt in the directions of the casinos. They made their investigation and discovered that the same people were always present when Uston gained. The player then attacked in justice Resorts International by affirming that the casinos did not have the right to prohibit players who, in his eyes, were not cheaters but used their intellectual abilities and of the mathematical techniques.

Uston moved then with Atlantic City where the play had been legalized in 1976. The card counter was authorized during a certain time but the casinos, realizing that they attracted all the experts of the country, made in kind prohibit this practice. In 1982, the Supreme court of the New Jersey débouta the casinos of Atlantic City which did not have the capacity to prohibit the card counters. To date, the casinos of Atlantic City do not have the right to refuse the access to the players who use of this strategy. However, a great number of specialists in the blackjack estimate that the legal action of Uston made the play even more difficult. Indeed, the casinos circumvented prohibition by modifying the rules, for example by more often mixing the charts.

Uston is the author of the book “Million Blackjack Dollar”. This work is regarded by much as a reference as regards blackjack. It describes in a simple and detailed way the principal strategies of the play and handling to obtain an advantage at the time of the play. Uston also wrote “Ken Uston One Blackjack”.

In the Years 1980, Uston published other books on the plays and even video games like CAP-Man with “Mastering PAC-MAN” or “Ken Uston' S Guide to Buying and Beating the Video Home Ranges”.

The September 19th 1987, Ken Uston was found died in its apartment of Paris. The official cause of the death was the heart attack.

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'' Ken Uston the blackjack hero and his card counting TEAM ''

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