The money-management system described in this book is bogus. You are guaranteed to lose using these techniques. To call this a "winning system" is fraudulent. You can't win, in the long run, at blackjack unless you count cards or use other similarly complicated techniques. If you play without counting, you're a sucker; if you buy this book, you're a sucker twice over. Good luck.

Blackjack's Hidden Secrets is all about basic strategy, something everyone should learn before they hit a blackjack table. I read this book, and Avery Cardoza's "Quick Guide to Winning Blackjack" simultaneously, I found Cardoza's to be the far superior book. "Hidden Secrets" is simplistic to the extreme, with no new information not already found in "Quick Guide". The strategy charts in "Hidden Secrets" are all based on Atlantic City, whereas "Quick Guide" contains separate charts for Vegas and Northern NV as well, since rules differ slightly in all three places. Also, despite Pappadopoulos' claim to be based on mathematical formulas, he still relies on alot of old gambler superstitions, like spotting a "hot" table, and placing bets according to whether or not you are on a "winning streak". I find his advice on how much to place risky as well. I've been practicing using this method, but limiting my bets to no more than four times the minimum (Cardoza's advice), and in 100 games I am up 104%.

Pass on "Blackjack's Hidden Secrets" (both I and II), invest in a few Cardoza books instead.

I have played blackjack many times before reading this book. I mostly lost before. Now if I follow the authors 5 rules, I leave with winnings. Last 3 times, I was at the casiono, i left with winnings. This book, it will teach you how to win every hand, but it heled me win and leave with as a winner. Also, it is much easier than trying to count cards. I also had a much easier time understanding this book than another book on blackjack the did involve counting cards. I recomend this book for anyone that want to win, it worked for me (as long as i follow the 5 rules).

I've only read the sample pages on amazon but I have recently ordered it. The sample pages that mention money management is actually what I have been practicing before discovering this book. When playing blackjack I usually start out with twenty $5.00 chips($100). On an average session I can gain 10 chips (10 X $5 = $50). On a good session I can gain 20 chips(20 X $5 = $100). Going beyond that is pretty hard and I start losing or going up and down. On a really bad session I can gain only 4 chips (4 X $5 = $20). Usually on bad sessions I go negative before I can make it all back and get ahead by a little. But I usually do get ahead eventually. After seeing this pattern I figured the only way I can make more money is to start betting larger chips regularly such $25 chips. So my usual $50 gains become $250 and my miniscule $20 gains become $100. I go to the casino once or twice a week and make a couple of hundred dollars within the first half hour inside the casino. Then I leave. If I stay any longer I end up losing my gains and getting stressed out. I'm not breaking the casino or getting filthy rich. However, I've turned the casino into my own modest free ATM machine on a weekly basis.

MY ACTUAL RATING FOR THIS BOOK IS MINUS 100 STARS.

This book together with his other 'II' book are the most lamest books on the Blackjack subject. Both books are actually about only 20-30 or so pages each and the information contained in both books are so minimal that Preface and Introduction sections of other execellent books on the subject provide more information than these 'I don't know why Amazon even advertises these books on their website??????'. Nuff said. If you want to waste your money go ahead and buy these books. Amazon will charge you $3.00 + 0.99 each book just for returning them.