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All players regardless of what they say they want from the game, really hope to win big. Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon books best sellers. The blackjack formula by arnold snyder 1980 now out of print, this was one of the very first books to explain the relative importance of various table conditions, such as deck penetration, to the win rate of blackjack card counters. Recently, i was at the unlv campus visiting the gaming research center that is on the third floor of the lied library. Nonetheless, an amazing amount can be said about this seemingly trivial game.