Arnold Snyder Interview
CountingEdge’s older “Arnold Snyder Interview” page described a chance 2017 encounter but does not retain an audio file, contemporaneous transcript or signed verification. It should not present reconstructed dialogue as authenticated quotation.
What can be documented
Arnold Snyder founded Blackjack Forum in 1981 and wrote books including Blackbelt in Blackjack, The Blackjack Formula, The Blackjack Shuffle Tracker’s Cookbook and The Big Book of Blackjack. The Blackjack Hall of Fame recognizes his work on penetration, simplified indices and shuffle tracking, and records his death on June 6, 2023.
The Windsor case
Canadian authorities arrested Tommy Hyland team members Christopher Z., Barbara D. and Karen C. at Casino Windsor on May 28, 1994. Snyder served as an expert witness at their 1995 trial. The court accepted testimony that the conduct at issue was a form of card counting and dismissed the charges. It is inaccurate to say that Hyland himself was the defendant in that trial.
How this archive treats the old interview
Any surviving narrative may be retained as an editor’s recollection, clearly dated and separated from direct quotes. Claims about legal rights must be jurisdiction-specific; the Windsor outcome does not establish that every advantage-play method is legal everywhere.
Further reading
Historical recollections require provenance; they do not guarantee gambling results.
