Blackjack Pro Steve Forte & His Business

Steve Forte is a well-renowned professional gambler. But when he started his career in gambling, the forte of Steve Forte were professional blackjack and professional poker. However, he was more famous as a professional blackjack player. He even wrote a book about such gambling game. This professional blackjack player seems to be disinterested in leaving the gambling industry because even though he is not so active in playing blackjack anymore, Steve Forte is still considered to be involved in the gambling industry.

During the days when Steve Forte was still active as a professional blackjack player, he wrote the book "Read the Dealer." In such book, he discusses the different strategies and techniques of beating blackjack without the use of any card counting system. Such topic enticed a lot of amateur and professional blackjack players, encouraging them to buy and read the book. Some of the pertinent contents of this book were featured in several periodicals, including "Cigar Aficionado," "Gaming Confidential," and "The Las Vegas Sun."

In "Read the Dealer," Steve Forte explains explicitly how blackjack players can gain an advantage by reading the reaction of the card dealer. The ability of blackjack players to read the reaction of dealers can enable the former to adjust their strategies in playing blackjack. This strategy has been proven to be effective. Unfortunately, when casino owners learned about such blackjack technique, some of them moved to change the policies of their casinos as far as dealing is concerned.

Steve Forte may not be as active as before in playing blackjack professionally. However, this professional blackjack player is still participating in tournaments and events when he is not busy working as an executive of International Gaming Specialists.

International Gaming Specialists is a consulting company that provides information and offers pieces of advice to casinos in terms of advantage play, cheating, and the detection and prevention of advantage play and cheating. Aside from such services, International Gaming Specialists also offers audits, reviews of gaming procedures, and gaming demonstrations. This consulting firm has been running successfully under the leadership of Steve Forte. The company has established professional working relationships with several big time casinos and gambling facilities located in different parts of the United States, including Caesars Palace Hotel, Imperial Palace, Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel & Casino, Mirage Hotel and Casino, and MGM Grand Hotel & Casino.

Aside from playing blackjack and aside from managing International Gaming Specialists, this professional blackjack player also makes appearances in several television shows, such as "Gambling's Invisible Thieves." Furthermore, he has produced a video recording titled "Casino Gaming Protection" and has also been running several Web sites, one of which is the Casino Game Protection site.