About Us

blackJack-mAsters is a professional BlackJack school based in Melbourne, Australia. We operate a land based school in Australia and teach across the internet worldwide. Our school was established by Andrew W Scott in 1993, and Andrew and his staff continue to operate the school today.

At blackJack-mAsters, we teach students throughout the world to become winning casino BlackJack players. All home study tuition and in-person courses were designed by Andrew. All personalised tuition is conducted by Andrew, and Chris assists him in providing ongoing support to students. Our home study programs include professionally shot, custom-made DVDs which we scripted and produced ourselves (also available in video cassette format). We started teaching in 1993 in Melbourne, Australia, and soon expanded to the rest of Australia, then New Zealand and Asia, and then finally the US and the rest of the world.

Our mission is:

• To further the creation and development of professional BlackJack players throughout the world.
• To provide an ongoing support network for our students. 
• To assist our students in avoiding detection as skilled players by casino personnel.

Our courses are Australia's most popular and most successful, although they can be implemented worldwide. Many of our graduates now play profitably throughout Australia and overseas.

Originally, blackJack-mAsters was staffed only by Andrew. However, over the years this grew to a peak of six staff in 2002. Through 2000 and 2001 especially we had a substantial growth in our business, and the demand for our courses and support well exceeded our capacity to meet that demand. We took extra staff on at that time which helped us through this growth phase. Their presence allowed Andrew to concentrate on creating various systems and procedures to deal with this higher demand on our services.

With these new systems in place, coupled with the support we now provide through our website, we were able to meet this level of demand with our now reduced staffing levels, although former staff are still friends of blackJack-mAsters and from time to time make posts in our student forums to help our current students.

Our current personnel:

Chris S Martin
Student Support and Business Manager

Chris was taught by Andrew in 2003, and has been with blackJack-mAsters since 2005. Chris has lived and breathed BlackJack since first being taught by Andrew in 2003 and since then has gained an excellent understanding both of the theoretical and practical sides of winning professional BlackJack play. After passing his table test he concentrated on BlackJack full-time, and has played professionally not only in a number of Australian casinos, but also in Las Vegas and various countries across Europe. Chris has mastered the game much quicker than many other professionals, and as a student quickly cemented himself as a regular and valuable contributor on our student forums. Chris has an eager desire to share with others what he has learnt as well as constantly improve his own game. Chris took up the position of Student Support and Business Manager for blackJack-mAsters on 1 October 2005. On 25 January 2006 Chris was promoted due to his exceptional performance within the business. He now undertakes all the day to day operations of the business, and provides all support to our professional course students.

Over the years Andrew Scott and Michael Walker have been the backbone of blackJack-mAsters. Andrew and Michael are close friends and both professional BlackJack players. Combined they have 31 years experience with professional BlackJack.

Andrew W Scott

Andrew is the founder of blackJack-mAsters. He started playing professional blackjack in 1987 and founded our business in 1993. Andrew first started drawing a community of skilled casino players in the early 1990s, and this community has grown around him since then. He designed all of our products, services and home study courses. He also designed all the ongoing coaching and monitoring programs. He personally conducts all our personalised tuition sessions. He hand-picked all of the other blackJack-mAsters staff from the very best of his students over the years. Andrew has played high stakes skilled blackjack in over 150 casinos around the world including in the US, Europe, Asia and the Australasia/Pacific region. Andrew now acts as a high level consultant, conducting all our advanced courses and personalised tuition courses. He is also available for private consultation sessions.

Michael Walker

Michael was taught by Andrew, started playing professional BlackJack in 1994 and has been with blackJack-mAsters since 1996. Michael is arguably the best graduate we have ever had, having an excellent understanding both of the theoretical and practical sides of winning professional blackjack play. Along with Andrew, he is responsible for ongoing member support for our high stakes members. Michael has played high stakes skilled blackjack throughout the world and, alongside Andrew, has personally mentored and managed the careers of our very best graduates. He has also won a six figure first prize in a high stakes casino tournament.

Our former staff:

Brian Jackson was formerly our student support manager. He is another of our top graduates. He started playing professional BlackJack under Andrew's guidance in 1994 and joined blackJack-mAsters in 2001. Brian was the nerve-centre of our business for administration and member support, and managed our course booking and member support office. He also conducted our in-person table tests as well as ongoing student coaching and reviews for our newer students. Due to work and BlackJack playing commitments, Brian left us in July 2004 but remains a great friend of blackJack-mAsters and continues to post advice in our student forums.

Vincent DeAngelis started studying professional BlackJack in 1999 and started playing in 2000. Vince joined blackJack-mAsters in 2002 and left us in 2004. Vince's job was to design our new website and manage computing and technology functions at blackJack-mAsters. This included developing computer programs for management of and research into existing and new winning gaming strategies. Once the development phase of this job was completed in mid 2004 Vince was no longer required as a staff member, and we wish him well in the future.

Gerard Phillips started studying professional blackjack in 1999 and started playing in 2000. Gerard joined blackJack-mAsters in 2002 and left us in 2004. Gerard provided administrative assistance and office, equipment and inventory maintenance at our previous Southbank office. He was also in charge of the multi-tiered physical security systems which protected our files at the Southbank office. Gerard also assisted with advanced and master course practical student training. A tireless worker, Gerard has racked up many hours during late nights both of high stakes professional blackjack play in the casinos and of in-person student training in our Southbank office. When we closed our Southbank office in June 2004 Gerard was no longer required as a staff member, and we wish him well in the future.

Peter O'Brien started playing professional blackjack in 1995, and joined blackJack-mAsters in 1999. Peter spends most of his time playing blackjack but in the past has occasionally assisted with administration, student support and ongoing group training sessions. Peter has played high stakes skilled blackjack in Australia, Asia, Europe and the US and from 2004 was no longer required as a permanent member of the blackJack-mAsters team.

Our office:

blackJack-mAsters has been located at both Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. From 1 February 1999 until 1 June 2004 our permanent office and BlackJack training facility was located at Suite 505 Southbank Towers, 83 Queensbridge Street, Southbank, Melbourne, Australia, just a one minute walk from Crown Casino, one of the world's largest casinos.

In June 2004 we moved to a new venue, which is set up as a practice casino and training facility. After discussing the issue at length with our staff and students, we have decided that our new venue will remain a secret location. We will only disclose the location to students once they need to visit for a table test or a practice casino night or whatever. There are certain advantages and disadvantages of keeping the "practice casino" location secret, but we have concluded that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

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