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4 unusual facts about Ken Uston


Card counting

From the early days of card-counting, some players have been hugely successful, including Al Francesco, the inventor of blackjack team play and the man who taught Ken Uston how to count cards, and Tommy Hyland, manager of the longest-running blackjack team in history.

In 1979 Ken Uston, a Blackjack Hall of Fame inductee, filed a lawsuit against an Atlantic City casino, claiming that casinos did not have the right to bar skilled players.

Puzzle Panic

Its original purpose was part of a contest: Those who solved it correctly by the 1984 August 31 deadline could enter in a drawing to win a weekend at an Atlantic City casino with co-creator Ken Uston, who had previously earned fame as a gambling strategist.

Puzzle Panic, also known as Ken Uston's Puzzle Panic, was a computer game created by blackjack strategist Ken Uston, Bob Polin and Ron Karr and published by Epyx in 1984 for the Atari 400/800 and Commodore 64.



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