Blackjack Hall of Fame
The Blackjack Hall of Fame honors the greatest blackjack players in history. It was launched in 2002, and is physically located at the Barona Casino in San Diego, California.
History
In 2002, 21 blackjack experts, authors, and professional players were nominated for membership in the Blackjack Hall of Fame. Voting was open to the public for about one month on the Internet, and the final voting was completed at the 2003 Blackjack Ball in January, an event open only to selected professional blackjack players and hosted by blackjack author Max Rubin.[1] The 1st 7 members were inducted in 2002,[1] with the next induction in 2004. They inducted two more members per year through 2006, and then agreed to drop to only one person per year.
Inductees
The current members of the Blackjack Hall of Fame are:
- Al Francesco, 2002, one of the founders of the concept of blackjack teams. Considered one of the most famous players of all time.
- Peter Griffin, 2002, , mathematician and author of The Theory of Blackjack
- Arnold Snyder, 2002, author and editor of Blackjack Forum, the professional trade journal
- Edward O. Thorp, 2002, author of the 1960s Beat the Dealer which proved that the game could be beaten with a combination of basic strategy and counting
- Ken Uston, 2002, author who popularized the concept of team play
- Stanford Wong, 2002, author and popularizer of a strategy known as "Wonging," only playing at a positive count
- Tommy Hyland, 2002, manager of one of the longest-running blackjack teams
- Max Rubin, 2004,[2] known for media reporting about gambling events, and optimizing casino comps
- Keith Taft, 2004, inventor who made hidden computerized devices to aid with play
- Julian Braun, 2005, author who used computers to analyze blackjack statistics
- Lawrence Revere, 2005, author of Playing Blackjack as a Business
- James Grosjean, 2006, computer analyst and a player who successfully sued casinos and the Griffin Agency, a detective agency which distributes pictures of counters to the casino surveillance departments
References
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