Daniel Negreanu is a professional poker player who was born in Toronto, Canada on July 26, 1974. His Romanian parents, Annie and Constantin, emigrated from Romania’s old Communist regime in 1967, with the aim of beginning a new life in the US. They settled instead in Toronto, where his father worked as an electrician and [...]
Even before the publication of Beat the Dealer, however, a small number of professional card counters were beating blackjack games in Las Vegas and casinos elsewhere. One of these early card counters was Jess Marcum, who is described in documents and interviews with professional gamblers of the time as having developed the first full-fledged point-count [...]
Tommy Hyland started playing poker in 1978 while still in college. It was also the first year he formed an informal “team.” He never looked back. For more than twenty-five years, he has run the longest-lasting and most successful blackjack team in the history of the game. He and his friends had been playing in [...]
