Casino Games History Or How People Have Learnt To Count Cards Part2.
Thorp’s Era.
If you dont know, now we are living in 43th year of Thorp’s era. This person had such a great influence on the blackjack and all the gambling industry, that I seriously consider that he is worth of setting up a monument while alive, by the way at the casino’s expense.
Being a young scientist, Edward O. Thorp regularly read mathematic journals. When he was a student, he was pressed for money. The idea of outplaying the casino on the basis of calculations appealed to Thorp and he decided to check the results of the “excellent four” and see what will come out of it. The result of his activity was a phenomenal book Beat The Dealer, now its sales are approaching million of samples.
Thorp chose the other https://tawk.to/rajapkr way – he did not make analytical calculations, but with powerful at that time computer IBM (they were also called mainframe) he wrote several programs
