Blackjack Hall of Fame
Take a trip to San Diego on the west coast of the US, head to the Barona Casino and you´ll be able to visit The Blackjack Hall of Fame which celebrates the great and good of the blackjack world. The public voted for 21 blackjack gurus on The Internet in 2002 and the first members were invited into the club during the Blackjack Ball in 2003.
Now every year, 2 more blackjack gurus are invited into the club by the existing members.
Past and present members include:
- Al Francesco- one of the most well known players in history.
- Peter Griffin, author of The Theory of Blackjack
- Arnold Snyder, professional player, who wrote The Blackjack Forum
- Edward O. Thorp, who wrote Beat the Dealer
- Ken Uston, who took on the casino in Atlantic City on the side of card counters
- Stanford Wong, inventor of the "Wonging" startegy where you sit on your hands and enter a game only when the cards are in your favour.
- Tommy Hyland
- Max Rubin
- Keith Taft
- Julian Braun, a famous blackjack statistician
- Lawrence Reverewho wrote Playing Blackjack as a Business
- James Grosjean, 2006, who wrote Beyond Counting.
- John Chang, 2007, former MIT member
- Roger Baldwin
- Wilbert Cantey
- Herbert Maisel
- James McDermott