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| Introduction Blackjack: The War for the Money | |
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| The Mystery History | |
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| The Long, Slow Birth of the Most Popular Casino Card Game in the World | |
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| The Birth of Blackjack | |
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| In the Beginning... Vingt-Un, Napoleon's Favorite Game | |
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| Before the Beginning... Quinze, Like Blackjack with Bluffing | |
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| If You Cut Quinze in Half... Still Bluffing | |
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| And as for Insurance... | |
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| But Before Quinze... Trente-Un, and a Sixteenth Century Card Sharp | |
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| The Bone Ace Connection... where the Ace Equals One or Eleven | |
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| Vingt-Un Makes a Splash in Europe | |
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| Blackjack in the Wild West, or How Twenty-One Became Blackjack | |
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| House Rules Change the Game Forever | |
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| Let the Games Begin... | |
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| The First Twenty-One Pro was a Woman | |
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| The Cheaters Thrived | |
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| Canfield's Prophecy | |
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| Twenty-One Becomes Blackjack | |
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| Ed Thorp versus the World | |
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| The Real Story of Ed Thorp's Attack on the Casinos | |
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| Mickey MacDougall, the "Card Detective" | |
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| John Scarne, "The World's Foremost Expert on Gambling" | |
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| The Scarne/MacDougall Feud | |
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| Scarne Triumphs | |
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| Enter Edward Oakley Thorpe... | |
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| Scarne to the Rescue! | |
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| The Downfall of John Scarne | |
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| Jacoby Claims the Credit! | |
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| Meanwhile, Back at the "World's Foremost Gambling Expert" | |
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| The $100,000 Challenge | |
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| Scarne's Mysterious WWII "Ten-Card Count" Pamphlet | |
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| Let's Get Ready to Rumble! | |
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| How Did It Get This Way? | |
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| More Mathematicians Get Involved | |
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| Beat the Dealer, Second Edition | |
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| The Griffin Agency is Born | |
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| Enter Lawrence Revere | |
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| The Birth of Team Play in the 1970's | |
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| Electronics Enter the Players' Arsenal | |
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| Enter Stanford Wong | |
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| Did Ken Uston Betray His Mentor? | |
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| Big Boom on the Boardwalk | |
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| The Cops versus the Robbers | |
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| Atlantic City, Here We Come! | |
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| The "Experiment" | |
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| The Party's Over | |
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| Uston Continues His Media Hype | |
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| An Expert Goes Down the Tubes | |
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| The Inside Scoop on the Campione Case | |
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| The Atlantic City Casinos Fight for the Rights of the Stupid | |
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| Indians, Riverboats, Lawsuits, and Loot | |
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| The Michigan Indians Lead the Way | |
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| The Feds Put the Law on the Indians' Side | |
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| The Indian Casino Expansion Begins | |
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| Bye-Bye Welfare, Hello Wealth! | |
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| But the Indians Keep Coming | |
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| The Cowboys Challenge the Indians | |
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| Fast Fun in Phoenix | |
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| But More Casinos Open in Other States | |
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| The Wackiness in Windsor: Hyland's Team Arrested | |
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| Options, Options, Options | |
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| As the Industry Grew, So Did the Opportunities to Exploit It | |
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| The New Game Protectors | |
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| The Game, The Rules, The Strategies | |
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| Playing the Game | |
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| The Deal | |
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| The Basic Structure and Object of the Game | |
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| "Hard" Hands and "Soft" Hands | |
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| Playing the Hands | |
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| Insurance | |
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| Hitting and Standing | |
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| Busting | |
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| Doubling Down | |
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| Splitting, Resplitting, and Doubling After Splits | |
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| Surrender | |
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| No Hole Card | |
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| Multi-Action | |
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| The Dealer's Hand | |
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| Uncommon Rules, Bonuses, and Side Bets | |
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| Playing the Game Right | |
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| The Basic Strategy | |
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| Why Basic Strategy Works... The "Odds" | |
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| What is a Half-Percent Advantage in Dollars and Cents? | |
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| How Basic Strategy Works... The Logic | |
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| The False Logic | |
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| Using the Basic Strategy Chart | |
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| The Order of Decisions | |
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| How to Practice Basic Strategy | |
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| Simplified Basic Strategy | |
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| Insurance? Never! (Well... Maybe Sometimes...) | |
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| The Cost of Errors | |
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| The Odd Truth About "Even Money" | |
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| The Value of a Blackjack | |
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| When the Dealer Has a 10 Up | |
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| When the Dealer Has an Ace Up | |
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| How the Casino Thinks of Even Money | |
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| How the Professional Player Thinks of Even Money | |
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| How Should You Think of Even Money? | |
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| A True Story | |
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| Meet the Cards | |
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| Meet the Ace, the Player's Strongest Ally | |
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| When the Dealer Shows an Ace | |
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| What the Ace Means to the Player's Hand | |
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| A Brief History of Aces | |
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| Meet the 10, the Most Important Denomination | |
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| Meet the 9, 8, and 7, the Invisible Cards | |
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| Meet the 6, 5, and 4-the Cards from Hell | |
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| Meet the 3 and 2-the Trouble Cards | |
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| How to Count Cards | |
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| The Red Seven Count | |
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| How to Practice Counting Cards | |
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| Setting Your Starting Count for Casino Play | |
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| The Red Seven Betting Strategy | |
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| Beating the Multiple-Deck Games | |
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| The "Trip" Bankroll | |
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| The "Total" Bankroll | |
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| The Red Seven Playing Strategy | |
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| Table Conditions | |
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| Keep It Simple | |
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| Rules, Rules, Rules, and More Rules | |
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| So Why All the New Rules? | |
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| The Number of Decks in Play | |
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| The Soft 17 Rule | |
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| Doubling Down | |
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| The Pair-Split Variations | |
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| Surrender | |
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| The General Rule on Rules | |
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| The Alton Belle Massacre | |
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| Multi-Action | |
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| The I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Blackjack Games | |
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| How to Beat "Over/Under 13" | |
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| How to Beat "Royal Match" | |
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| A Bit of History | |
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| But You Don't Need to Count the Four Suits | |
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| The Simple Royal Match System | |
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| What's It Worth? | |
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| How to Beat "Super Sevens" | |
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| How to Beat "Lucky Ladies" | |
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| What's It Worth? | |
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| A Word about those Damnable Flux | |
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| Beware of the Big-Flux Bankroll Eaters! | |
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| How to Beat "Spanish 21" | |
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| The Big Trick | |
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| Simplified Spanish 21 Basic Strategy | |
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| The Full Strategy | |
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| So How Do You Beat Spanish 21? | |
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| How to Beat "Super Fun 21" | |
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| The Big Trick | |
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| Super Fun 21 Rules | |
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| Super Fun 21 Basic Strategy (Compared to Traditional Game) | |
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| Beating Super Fun 21 with the Red Seven Count | |
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| How to Beat "Double Exposure" | |
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| The Big Trick(s) | |
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| The Basic Theory | |
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| The Simplified Basic Strategy | |
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| The Red Seven Betting Strategy | |
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| The Red Seven Playing Strategy | |
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| How to Beat "Blackjack Switch" | |
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| The Gimmick | |
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| The Big Trick | |
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| The Rules of the Game | |
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| The Switch | |
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| Defining the Dealer's Upcard | |
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| Defining the Player's Hands with the WLPC System | |
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| The Two-Hand Set Ratings | |
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| When Switching Does Not Change the Power Rating | |
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| The Blackjack Switch Basic Strategy | |
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| Beating Blackjack Switch with the Red Seven Count | |
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| The Red Seven Betting Strategy | |
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| The Red Seven Playing Strategy | |
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| How to Beat those Weird California Games | |
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| No House Bank | |
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| How Much Does that Commission Cost? | |
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| Target = 22 | |
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| No Bust | |
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| Wild Cards | |
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| Dealer's Options | |
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| How Can the Average Player Beat the California Games? | |
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| Having Fun in a Combat Zone | |
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| Like it or Not, You Are the Enemy | |
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| Play versus Work, Us versus Them | |
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| The Field of Battle | |
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| The Customer is Always Suspect | |
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| A Glossary of Surveillance Terms | |
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| Winning is Dangerous | |
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| Story #1 | |
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| Story #2 | |
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| The Moral | |
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| Survival Tips | |
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| "Barred" versus "Backed Off" | |
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| Cheating? At Blackjack? | |
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| Blackjack's Sordid Past | |
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| Why Cheat? | |
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| What Will it Cost You? | |
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| Payout "Errors" | |
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| Cheating in Single-Deck Games | |
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| Dealing Seconds | |
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| Stacking a Blackjack | |
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| Marked Cards | |
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| Other Peeking Scams | |
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| Preferential Shuffling | |
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| Cheating in Multi-Deck Shoe Games | |
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| The Short Shoe | |
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| My Experience with Short Shoes | |
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| Cutting the High Cards Out of Play | |
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| What If the Dealer Cheats to Help You? | |
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| What If You Suspect You've Been Cheated? | |
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| The Eye in the Sky | |
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| The Important Things to Know About Surveillance | |
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| Should You Be a Refusal? The Pros and the Cons | |
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| Should You Get a Player's Card? The Pros and the Cons | |
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| Team Play | |
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| Why Form a Blackjack Team? | |
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| Why Not Form a Blackjack Team? | |
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| Guidelines for Forming a Team | |
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| Hole Cards, Devices, Shuffle Tracking, and Nevada-Style "Justice" | |
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| The Peek Freaks Win in a Nevada Court | |
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| But "Video Front Loading" Gets the Shaft | |
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| The Anti-Device Law is Tried and Found... Vague | |
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| More Nevada Justice | |
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| "Tell" Play Tested in a Reno Courtroom | |
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| Shuffle Tracking | |
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| Odds, Ends, and Other Weird Stuff | |
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| The Blackjack Hall of Fame | |
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| Julian Braun | |
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| Al Francesco | |
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| Peter Griffin | |
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| Tommy Hyland | |
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| Lawrence Revere | |
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| Max Rubin | |
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| Arnold Snyder | |
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| Keith Taft | |
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| Edward O. Thorp | |
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| Ken Uston | |
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| Stanford Wong | |
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| Twenty-One Questions | |
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| Poetry | |
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| A Visit from St. Who? | |
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| Aces (or 42.08%) | |
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| Charge of the Count Brigade | |
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| Do Not Go Gentle into That Back Room | |
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| The Griffin | |
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| Prowl | |
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| Blackjack Reality versus Blackjack Hype | |
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| Appendix | |