As the individual most responsible for Braun's long association with the blackjack world, he in the best position to comment. As I hoped, he wrote an expanded and more elaborate program which eliminated most of the approximations forced upon me by the limitations of computing power when I wrote in 1960. Using the expanded computing power available in 1965, his programming skills, and the computer resources of IBM, the numbers and strategies he produced became the benchmark from 1965 into the 70s. His contributions to the field of blackjack were of major importance. . Gambling is an art form.
Some people gamble because they think there is money in it.
Yes, there is money in it when you are lucky. But then the meaning of the game is distorted. If there was a Mount Rushmore for the founding fathers of Blackjack, Braun's countenance would surely be entrenched in the firmament. One person remarked that if he didn't perform the computer runs, someone else would have done it. I guess, one could make that same statement about any historical figure.