Using the Illustrious 18 as a Defensive Tool By Bill Zender and Andrew Uyal What are Decision Indices? Mathematician and Blackjack advantage player, Donald Schlesinger released a list of card counting strategy deviations known as the “Illustrious 18” in September 1986, published in the Blackjack Forum in an article titled “Attacking the Shoe.” Schlesinger’s motivation
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