The IBirth of Team Play in the 70’s
In the early 1970s, card counting became big business. One of the most creative and successful players from that time (or any time) was AI Francesco, who had been playing since 1963 and had traveled with Lawrence Revere for a while. As a poker player, Al knew that the best way for a player to make money was to disguise his strength from his opponents, but he couldn’t figure out a way that a card counter could do this at a blackjack table. Then, in 1971, it hit him. That year, AI started his first blackjack teams, using the Big Player (BP) approach. It was the method he’d been seeking for eight years.
