Princes of Darkness: The World of High Stakes Blackjack »

Carl “The Dean” Sampson is now an author and full time professional poker player. He is the author of Secrets of Professional Limit Hold’em and he also writes for the World Poker Tour magazine as well as top US poker magazine Bluff.

Princes of Darkness delves into the murky and secretive world of the professional Blackjack player. In a three-year period, Carl Sampson and his team took the casinos for a seven-figure sum and now he reveals how they did it. Carl Sampson started out working a croupier in the gaming industry but – frustrated at being overlooked for promotion – he determined to take them on and beat them at their own game. Princes of Darkness recounts the story of how he developed a system, put a team together, found a wealthy backer and went to work. As well as giving the reader a glimpse of this fascinating twilight world, Carl Sampson also explains in detail his Blackjack systems, including: • A definitive guide to card counting • How to master the complex art of shuffle tracking • How to implement evasion techniques