Ken Uston reviewed 32 games in his book Ken Uston's Guide to Buying and Beating the Home Video Games in 1982, and rated some of the Channel F's titles highly ; of these, Alien Invasion and Video Whizball were considered by Uston to be " the finest adult cartridges currently available for the Fairchild Channel F System.

Francesco had recently launched the first " big player " type of blackjack card counting team, and he recruited Uston to be one of his main team players.

In the early 1980s, Uston also authored several popular books on video games and personal computers.

In an interview published in Video Games, Uston revealed he got hooked on the games Pong and then Breakout.

Uston went on to write several more books about video games and home computers during the 1980s.

Although Al Francesco and other team members have recounted in subsequent Blackjack Forum interviews that Uston made very little money for their team, Uston co-authored with Roger Rapoport a book entitled The Big Player in which he shared credit for many of his card-counting successes with his fellow team members, including noted Blackjack master-strategist Bill Erb.

After his numerous casino barrings — now on his own and without a team — Uston adopted a wide variety of physical disguises in order to continue to play blackjack.

In Uston v. Resorts International Hotel Inc., 445 A. 2d 370 ( N. J. 1982 ), the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that Atlantic City casinos did not have the authority to decide whether skilled players could be barred.

Blackjack team play was first written about by Ken Uston, an early member of Al Francesco's teams.

Their story is outlined in the book, " The Big Player " by Ken Uston.

Ken Uston ( January 12, 1935 – September 19, 1987 ) was a famous blackjack player, strategist, and author, credited with popularizing the concept of team play at blackjack.

Uston was born Kenneth Senzo Usui in New York City, the oldest of three children born to Elsie Lubitz, a native of Austria, and Senzo Usui, a Japanese immigrant and businessman.

At the age of 16, Uston was accepted to and henceforth began attending Yale University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

Uston was also a talented musician, proficient on the bass as well as the piano.

In a 1983 Blackjack Forum interview, Uston related that he became fascinated by blackjack and its inherent strategies after meeting professional gambler Al Francesco in a poker game.

As with most other casinos around the globe, Uston was soon barred from playing at those locations within Atlantic City as well.

In an article in Blackjack Forum, Arnold Snyder describes playing with Ken Uston at Circus Circus Las Vegas near the end of Uston's life.

He states that Uston was disguised as a worker from Hoover Dam and got away with spreading his bets from table minimum to table maximum on a single-deck game.

After The Big Player, Uston went on to write Million Dollar Blackjack.

Uston also authored a companion piece, Ken Uston On Blackjack.

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