Tournament blackjack is different from regular blackjack in that you're going against the other players. You have to get people to understand that it's a competitive game, a competition. It has a lot of the same elements that a poker tournament has.

People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.

In terms of a narrative nonfiction book, when you're describing scenes that you have multiple sources for, and that you have differing sources for, and you decide to choose a path that puts all that information together, well yeah, there's definitely going to be a little bit of the author in that. But there's nothing wrong with that.

I write about nerds who go the extra mile and become rock stars.

Poker has exploded over the last few years. Once they figure out the best way to televise blackjack, I think it will become as popular as poker.

If you're an advantage player, you're going to get kicked out. There's a difference between being a great tournament player and being an advantage player - although there is some overlap. You find a lot of advantage players who are also great tournament players.