Jerry L. Patterson

Jerry L. Patterson is an American

Bibliography

His first book, Blackjack: A Winner's Handbook, was published in 1977. Patterson wrote Casino Gambling: A Winner’s Guide to Blackjack, Craps, Roulette, Baccarat and Casino Poker in 1980. This book was revised in 2000 to reflect changing gaming rules, methods, and conditions.

He also wrote a gambling column in the late 1970s and 1980s, which was featured by several newspapers, including The New York Daily News, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Orange County Register, The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, and The Atlantic City Press

Blackjack strategy

Besides his work as an author, Patterson has also conducted clinics in

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Patterson developed and published a method for tracking favorable clumps of cards and cutting them into play and tracking unfavorable clumps of cards and cutting them out of play. This is known as "shuffle-tracking".[2]^[3][1]: 51

In 1982, a lawsuit initiated by Ken Uston prohibited the Atlantic City casinos from barring card counters but allowed the casinos to establish new blackjack rules making it much more difficult to attain an advantage in the multi-deck shoe game, except for players willing to play to the long-term. Since most of Patterson's clients and book readers are recreational, short-term players, he published a special report advising them of the potential impact of these new rules on their blackjack play.

Patterson also responded to these restrictive new blackjack rules by developing (with Eddie Olsen), a non-counting strategy called TARGET 21.^[4] This non-counting blackjack strategy caused the division of blackjack players into two groups which Patterson refers to as traditional players and new era players.^[1]: 3–4

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