Blackjack King

The most famous blackjack player ever has got to be Ken Uston. He and his blackjack team pulled millions from the black jack table of Las Vegas before they was detected. Ken did more than invent playing techniques, he was also a Jazz musician, author, instructor and gambling raconteur. He graduated with honors from Yale and by the age of thirty one was bringing in $42,000 annually, plus benefits, as a Senior VP of the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange.
He became a professional blackjack player after he left the corporate world although it was not him who created that blackjack team that he was part of. It was Ed Thorp who did that as he organized a team in the mid 1970s in the San Francisco area. Ken did write about this fantastic team in his book called The Big Player, but it is out of print and hard to find.
A word of advice from Kenny was that is you make a decision to do something, then do it well and do it right. If blackjack is your choice, then learn your method till you have a error level of zero. Practice and practice with your method through many sessions and then go to the casinos. Kenny strives for excellence and so should everyone else.