Every sport or game of skill and chance has their legends and most were known for their charisma as well as their skills and this is how they were remembered, but in pure mathematical games such as blackjack who remembers the players who brought it to where its at today? Not many, because most of them were more on the steel cold statistical side then others. One of the ambassadors that helped bring recognition to the game was Peter Griffin. Griffin was one of the half dozen of original players to be voted into the hall of fame of Blackjack.

It is no coincidence that Griffin was among the first to develop a mathematical system to break down a blackjack players advantage and disadvantage of winning depending on his skill level as he was a math genius whose grandfather was also a math genius. His theory showed that the house had a slight 2% winning advantage over the regular blackjack player. While this seemed small to most people but if you look at it in a purely business sense over a volume of millions of hands played you will see that this small percentage brings in massive profit to the casinos. The whole premise of his card counting theory is relationship between betting correlation and the playing efficiency. Suffice to say that he probably wasn’t liked by too many of the gambling casino owners. He then went on to write many books on how to play the game and among his best books were titles such as Complete Card Counter’s Guide to the Casino Game of 21 which eventually became a classic that every potential fan or player of the game has read. It is probably the bible on blackjack.

Before playing and studying the game Griffin was a math and statistics teacher at the Cal State . He spent many years saving and compiling many statistics on the game and though he passed away in the late 1990’s he had transformed the game. What was once known as a game of chance and luck is now known as a game made specifically for the mathematical mind. So next time your at a casino in Las Vegas or Atlantic City and sitting down at the blackjack table remember Griffins name and you will always see this game as a game of skill and of the mind.

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