[personal profile] archerships
for a complete analysis and instructions on how to win at blackjack (at least theoretically) see:

Playing Blackjack as a Business by Lawrence Revere (ISBN 0818400641 )

also see Million Dollar Blackjack by Ken Uston (ISBN 0897460685 ) as an aside, the late Ken Uston was a stock broker at the Pacific Exchange before becoming a professional blackjack player.

and for those of you who are easily impressed with credentials and academic degrees in science and engineering see The Gambling Times Guide to Blackjack by Stanley Roberts,Ken Uston,Lance Humble,Jerry Patterson,Arnold Snyder,Edward O. Thorp,Julian Braun, etc. (ISBN 0897460154 ) Thorp was the first who applied probability theory to BJ, Braun was the first who applied computer simulation, etc. etc.

(my note: Ed Thorp is also signed up to be cryopreserved by Alcor).