Originally Posted by soxfan View Post
Hmmm, query, I wonder how many of the resident genius, ap-wise-guy and mathite woulda been shrewd enough to come up with the 21 cards-counting angle, say back in 1959, before the Thorpe wrote the book, divulge the bean and let the feline outta the sack, hey hey????
My guess is there were people that could beat the game back then. And Thorp messed up their gravy train. It was all single deck dealing to the last card. The odds shifting when the ratio of big cards to small cards is above normal is not that hard of a concept to grasp. There had to have been people that knew that and exploited it.

And you could Wong all you wanted to in those days.