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Kendall Saville (Ken Tucker)

About Ken Tucker (Kendall Saville)

Ken Tucker is the publishing name of Kendall Saville, an experienced online gambling publisher and digital media entrepreneur with a background spanning blackjack, online casinos, sports betting and gambling industry analysis.

As the former owner and publisher of OnlineBlackjack.com, Kendall contributed to the site's coverage of blackjack strategy, casino rules and the online gambling industry. His work under the Ken Tucker name includes blackjack guides, industry commentary and interviews with prominent gambling experts, including Michael Shackleford, the Wizard of Odds, and blackjack author Stanford Wong.

Beyond OnlineBlackjack.com, Kendall co-founded Legal Sports Report and PlayUSA, two established publications covering the regulated US gambling market. Both became part of the Catena Media network in 2016. He also founded i15 Media, a digital publishing company that expanded into gambling news and sports betting content, including the acquisition of Gaming Today in 2021. He has also served on the board of directors of A-Mark Precious Metals.

Kendall holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Editor's note: Ken Tucker was the publishing name used by Kendall Saville, who owned OnlineBlackjack.com until 2014. Articles he wrote keep their original byline. The byline also remains on some pages published since 2015, which were written and are maintained by the OnlineBlackjack.com editorial team.

How Not to Play Blackjack

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Jul 2011

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Even though blackjack players like to brag about the game’s tiny house edge, throwing out the old “0.5%” number and muttering about basic strategy, it is more than possible to lose lots of many at a blackjack table. If …

Common Blackjack Mistakes

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Jun 2011

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Something about blackjack encourages people to at times play with less then ideal strategy. You hear more nonsense at blackjack tables than at slot machines–maybe it is the simplicity of the game or the appeal of the small casino edge. …

Blackjack Variations WorldWide

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May 2011

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The game of blackjack is a few hundred years old, though the game as it was invented is very different from the blackjack games we know and love. Games are like that–as they move from one region to another, they …

Stanford Wong BJ21 Interview

14

Jan 2011

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The final interview of our Best Blackjack Sites series is with Stanford Wong, a notable author and the owner of BJ21 .

Stanford Wong runs one of the most influential blackjack communities in the world, a pay membership message board …

Ken Smith BlackjackInfo Interview

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Oct 2010

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The third interview in our Best Blackjack Sites series is with Ken Smith from BlackjackInfo.

Ken Smith’s Blackjack Info website is one of the premiere resources for advantage blackjack players. Blackjack Info has one of the most active blackjack forums …

Norm Qfit Interview

11

Oct 2010

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Our second interview in our Best Blackjack Sites series is with Norm from Qfit.

Qfit is very well known by advantage Blackjack players as the go-to for Blackjack training software. Casino Vérité is their most popular  software and it replicates …

Michael Shackleford WizardOfOdds.com Interview

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Sep 2010

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Here is our first interview in our series of interviews with webmasters that have created the best blackjack sites.

Michael Shackleford is the creator and webmaster of one of the most widely recognized casino strategy websites,  Wizard Of Odds…

Best Blackjack Sites

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Sep 2010

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As a new blackjack site, I wanted to acknowledge current blackjack sites that have established themselves as the best sources of information for blackjack advantage players as well as enthusiasts.

I plan to try to get interviews from the owners …