Here the object is to beat the dealer in getting as close to 21 without going over.

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Read the book Beat The Dealer by Ed Thorp, the former blackjack player who became a hedge fund manager.

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Mathematics professor Dr. Edward Thorp figured it out back during the Eisenhower Administration and published the classic work on the subject, Beat the Dealer.

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