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He used the computer to find every possible action for every possible hand and used this data to create a new strategy called Basic Strategy. Later Edward Thorp, an American mathematics professor, had become interested in The Optimum Strategy and had programmed the same methodology into an IBM 704 in Fortran.

In his paper, Roger Baldwin analyzes the player’s options discussed earlier in an attempt to find which choice is favorable for which hands played. Gaining the advantage in Blackjack had first began to become popularized by Roger Baldwin’s paper, The Optimum Strategy in Blackjack.