Professional blackjack player Kevin Blackwood shares his million-dollar winning strategies for mastering the odds and consistently beating the house at their own game.

Play Blackjack Like the Prosis the requisite introduction to the modern game of blackjack, including high and low stakes casino, shoe games (several decks shuffled together), online, and tournaments. Blackwood begins with the basic rules of play and then moves on to teach his proven card-counting method, broken-down into three levels: novice, recreational, and professional. He also covers camouflaging techniques (it's perfectly legal to count cards, but if the house catches you they will kick you out), money management, and team play. Blackwood includes many stories of his and other professionals' triumphs at the tables and keeps the highly technical language that bogs down most gaming books to an absolute minimum.

Play Blackjack Like the Prosis written in the style of Phil Hellmuth'sPlay Poker Like the Prosusing easy-to-understand lessons that all levels of players can quickly benefit from.

• Blackwood is one of the world's top card counters. He began with only a few hundred dollars and has won over a million playing blackjack. InPlay Blackjack Like the Proshe demonstrates how to earn over $10,000 a month from just a few days work.
• Blackjack is set to balloon in popularity. Ben Mezrich's book on the MIT card counting teamBringing Down the Housewas on theNew York Timesbestseller list for weeks and is being made into a movie staring Kevin Spacey. Blackjack Tournaments are growing in popularity with many of the top casinos offering large prize pools. Online Blackjack is currently a multi-million dollar industry. Blackwood keeps the highly technical language that bogs down most gaming books to an absolute minimum.
• Foreword by Stanford Wong, author ofProfessional Blackjackand the masterl3*