Can you beat the house playing blackjack?

In late November of 1979 a person known only as 'Dave', who claimed to have been a member of Ken Uston's Blackjack team, contacted the organizers, and proposed forming a team to travel down to Atlantic City and taken advantage of the New Jersey Casino Commission's recent ruling that made it illegal for the Atlantic City casino's to bar (that is, prevent from playing blackjack) card counters.