1962 "Beat the Dealer", "A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One", the first book to give the general public a workable method for playing a winning game of casino blackjack, also known as twenty-one, was published.
1979 David Morse learned how to play blackjack.
1982 The New Jersey Supreme Court upheld the Appellate Courts ruling in Uston v. Resorts Int'l Hotel, Inc. No longer could a casino arbitrarily bar a blackjack player.
1988 David Morse moved from Providence to Atlantic City to play blackjack full time.
1989 David Morse was banned from the Showboat Casino in Atlantic City. This was his first exclusion from any casino anywhere, and led to his first lawsuit against a casino. In subsequent years, he was barred dozens of times from casinos all over the country and initiated 13 lawsuits in response, so far.
1990 David Morse reached the skill level to be a successful professional.
1990 David Morse developed the signature method of profiting from a particular kind of shuffle defect, in response to various forms of countermeasures and harassment introduced by the casinos.
1990 David Morse learned the shuffle-tracking method of profiting from a different type of shuffle defect.
1990 David Morse began using pencil and paper as a means to apply both the signature method and the shuffle-tracking method of profiting from different kinds of shuffle defects.
1991 David Morse developed mnemonic techniques to allow him to play in a manner tactically similar to the way he was playing with pencil and paper but without the visibility to casino personnel.
1994 David Morse moved from Atlantic City to Cranston, Rhode Island, in order to enjoy the civility of the environment in which he grew up while continuing to earn his living as a professional blackjack player.
1995 The New Jersey Appellate Court overturned a trespass conviction of David Morse, thereby establishing that when a casino bars a blackjack player, the ejection is only effective for one day.
1995 A jury awarded Anthony Campione one and a half million dollars from TropWorld Casino in Atlantic City. Of this 1.475 million dollars, roughly one third was for actual damages for lost earnings, based on the computational assumption of about one hundred thousand dollars per year of lost earnings. The remaining two thirds, or about a million dollars, was for punitive damages. The case is under appeal.
1995 David Morse was barred from all Atlantic City casinos by the Casino Control Commission.
1997 David Morse began developing a number of new mnemonic techniques for many different purposes: keeping track of data needed in various ways of profiting from shuffle defects; training students in Basic Strategy; training students in card counting; training students in strategy decisions based on card counting; providing students with mental tools for reviewing learned material.
1997 Campione award is overturned on appeal at appelate division. Appeal is taken to Supreme Court.
1998 The Supreme Court remands Campione lawsuit back to the Law Division. They rule that the Casino Control Commission has primary jurisdiction to resolve issues concerning interpretation of the Casino Control Act and the CCC's regulations. The CCC does not have jurisdiction over a patrons common law claims. Casinos have a common law duty to treat patrons fairly. Campione's claim of discriminatory treatment does have a common law basis.
Campione settles with Tropworld for an undisclosed amount.
1998 David Morse challenges Mississippi casinos' belief that they have the arbitrary right to refuse anyones patronage. Hearing examiner rules in favor of the casinos.
2005 David Morse appeals to the NJ CCC to have his name removed from the excluded persons list. Decision pending.
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