Francis Montmirel – “Blackjack is a game apart. This is the only traditional casino game where the player can differentiate its decisions to refine its results. That’s why I decided in 1985 (I was 22 years) to deal blackjack. At the time, I was fascinated by the wheel. I spent a lot of time creating my own systems. But I look at the blackjack tables. This game seemed intriguing. Players were not allowed to receive their maps and reports were made ​​more limited than Roulette.

My editor, Hatier, had the right idea, after the release of my book devoted to poker, I order a book on casino games. So I played all casino games with no exception for a year. Including Blackjack, of course. I was also forced to read several books by American authors, including the famous Edward Thorp manual “How to Beat the Dealer” (which I later translated into French) and the manual by Ken Uston “Million Dollar Blackjack. These are two very important authors of blackjack, they were two great players, especially Uston, it was he who invented the game as a team. “

There are many ways to count cards. I established my own that I published in “Blackjack, teach excellence.” There are quantities of methods that give different results depending on their difficulty. On average, to learn to count cards, it takes two weeks of work, then talk all day. “