He is best known for his book Blackjack: Take the Money and Run which explains basic blackjack strategy, managing a bankroll, side bets and advanced tactics like card counting.

If I'd spent as much time learning basic blackjack strategy as I did tracking hotel rates, maybe I'd be a rich woman now.

Although basic blackjack strategies can get infinitely more complex, those four rules are the core of most of the strategies in use today.

This non-counting blackjack strategy caused the division of blackjack players into two groups which Patterson refers to as traditional players and new era players.

The strategy of Blackjack Switch covers both the switch decision and the subsequent decisions of whether to stand, double, or draw a further card which are familiar from blackjack strategy.

They soon decided to contact Jess Marcum, a Rand Corporation mathematician who, on his own, had been working to develop a blackjack strategy, mainly, card-counting.

The license plate of Jimmy's Limo, "DBLDN11", is a reference to a blackjack strategy articulated in Swingers that one should "always double down on an 11."

Splitting aces and eights is part of blackjack basic strategy.