Blackjack Forum was a trade journal

Trade journal

A trade magazine, also called a professional magazine, is a magazine published with the intention of target marketing to a specific industry or type of trade. The collective term for this area of publishing is the trade press....

 for professional blackjack

Blackjack

Blackjack, also known as Twenty-one or Vingt-et-un , is the most widely played casino banking game in the world...

 players, founded in 1981 and published by noted blackjack author Arnold Snyder

Arnold Snyder

Arnold Snyder is a professional gambler and gambling author. He was elected by professional blackjack players as one of the seven original inductees into the Blackjack Hall of Fame for his record as a blackjack player and his innovations in professional gambling techniques...

. Originally a 100-page quarterly journal, it expanded into an online forum which is frequented by professional gamblers, attorneys, industry people, mathematicians and other aficonados. It was considered one of the major newsletters or journals for the blackjack market, along with Stanford Wong

Stanford Wong

Stanford Wong is the pen name of John Ferguson, a gambling author who is best known for his book Professional Blackjack, which was first published in 1975 and is still in print. Wong's computer program "Blackjack Analyzer", initially created for personal use, was one of the first pieces of...

's Current Blackjack News.

Frequent authors included Nick Alexander

Nick Alexander

Nick Alexander is an English writer, his first novel was published in 50 Reasons to Say Goodbye.Alexander was born in 1964 and grew up in the seaside town of Margate England...

, Peter A. Griffin

Peter A. Griffin

Peter A. Griffin was a mathematician, author and blackjack expert and is one of the original seven members of the Blackjack Hall of Fame...

, James Grosjean

James Grosjean

James Grosjean is a gambling expert and author best known for his 2000 book Beyond Counting: Exploiting Casino Games from Blackjack to Video Poker. He became a professional player while studying as a graduate student at the University of Chicago's Department of Economics. Grosjean's book...

, Tommy Hyland, and Snyder. Topics involved card counting

Card counting

Card counting is a casino card game strategy used primarily in the blackjack family of casino games to determine whether the next hand is likely to give a probable advantage to the player or to the dealer. Card counters, also known as advantage players, attempt to decrease the inherent casino house...

, betting systems, software, cheating

Cheating

Cheating refers to the breaking of rules to gain advantage in a competitive situation. The rules infringed may be explicit, or they may be from an unwritten code of conduct based on morality, ethics or custom, making the identification of cheating a subjective process. Cheating can refer...

, comps, casino conditions, interviews with legendary players and authors, and occasional articles on other gambling-related topics such as horse-racing and poker

Poker

Poker is a family of card games that share betting rules and usually hand rankings. Poker games differ in how the cards are dealt, how hands may be formed, whether the high or low hand wins the pot in a showdown , limits on bet sizes, and how many rounds of betting are allowed.In most modern poker...

. In 1999, Blackjack Forum was collating player reports, and listing casino rules and conditions in over 350 cities in 24 states and 44 countries.