Blackjack Hall of Fame

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The greatest blackjack players have been honored with admission into the Blackjack Hall of Fame.

In the winter/autumn of 2002 a diverse selection of 21 blackjack experts, authors, and professional players were nominated by the top professional gamblers in the world to the Blackjack Hall of Fame. Voting for the Blackjack Hall of Fame was open to the public for about one month on the Internet, and the final voting was completed at the 2003 Blackjack Ball in January, an event open only to the top professional players and hosted by blackjack author Max Rubin. The primary voting for the Blackjack Hall of Fame is done by professional players.

The founders of the Hall of Fame structured the selection process in this manner because they felt that only professional players know the full accomplishments, at and away from the tables, of fellow professional players because many of these achievements must be hidden from the public in order to protect sensitive information from reaching the casinos. The founders also felt that it is professional players, whose survival depends on such knowledge, who best know which authors and theories have truly been original and truly had an impact on the game.

Currently there are 11 members of the Blackjack Hall of Fame. The first seven members were elected to the Hall of Fame in the winter/autumn (SH) of 2002. The members of the Blackjack Hall of Fame are:

• Al Francesco (2002)
• Arnold Snyder (2002)
• Edward O. Thorp (2002)
• Ken Uston (2002)
• Stanford Wong (2002)
• Tommy Hyland (2002)
• Ken Taft (2004)
• Max Rubin (2004)
• Lawrence Revere (2005)
• James Grosjean (2006)
• Bill Raudabaugh (2007)