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Blackjack and wonging: a story of success
In 1975, Stanford Wong came out with his most famous book called Professional Blackjack. Stanford had a Ph.D. in economics from so-called university, hence his pseudonym. This book was the next big advance for professional players. Wong described his playing style, which included table-hopping shoe games to avoid playing at negative counts.
The casinos looked for card counters by watching for their betting spreads. It had never occurred to the casinos that a counter might be watching a table from the aisles, waiting for an advantageous count before jumping in to bet.
The counting system Wong published was the Hi-Lo Count, and like Revere’s count, used the easy divide-by-remaining-deck(s) approach to running count adjustments. So, at last, some twelve years after Harvey Dubner had proposed the Hi-Lo count values, his system was available in a format both fully optimized with blackjack strategy indices, and presented with a simple methodology of play. This playing style has since become widely known as wonging.
