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Blackjack ( Non Card Counting ) Just BS
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January 2008
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Blackjack ( Non Card Counting ) Just BS
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January 2008
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Blackjack ( Non Card Counting ) Just BS
The question is "What is your goal?" If it is to gamble recreationally, without regard to losing money, then you should do whatever you want, so long as you can afford it. If your goal is to actually win, BS is _not_ going to cut it. …
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January 2008
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Confusion for Basic Strat. on A/7 vs. 2 when dealer hits soft 17.. Blackjack Bluebook
sammylightfoot said:I have Fred Renzey's Blackjack Bluebook which I think is great and helped me win money at the casino. In it it says the only 2 changes made when the dealer hits soft 17 are double down on 11 vs. A, and A/8 vs. 6 (page 55). …
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stainless steel rat
January 2008
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Betting systems
ruifgalmeida said:very Interesting the speed counting, can you recomend a site here can I learn it? when we start counting it start positive 27 ? have you already tried at casinos? Go to Arnold Snyder's web site and look for the "OPP"…
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January 2008
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True Count questions
CEO Alex said:How often do you check your TC (every 2 decks, 1 deck, 1/2 deck, after each hand, 2 hands, etc.)? It depends. To place a bet, you use the TC at the end of the previous round, after all hands including the dealer's have been co…
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January 2008
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advice
ihate17 said:Why would someone say to buy the Blackjack Zone to a new or almost new player? I agree the book does not teach one how to be an advantage player and is pretty much useless to anyone with a minimum of advantage play experience if they h…
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January 2008
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Perfect Basic Strategy.
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January 2008
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Online Blackjack vs. Real-Life Blackjack
Scumbag said:I'm pretty new to blackjack, so forgive me if I ask a stupid question. I practice basic strategy online at bodog casino. I play BS to the letter there and most of the time I get wasted. In the practice session, they give you $1000…
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January 2008
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Walter Thomason???
Sonny said:You forgot my favorite one - the Infinite Monkey test! :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diehard_tests -Sonny- I had forgotten about the "monkeys and typewriters" test until you mentioned it. :)
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stainless steel rat
January 2008
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Walter Thomason???
shadow_priest_x said:Well I do know that a number of tests have been run but I admit I've never run across the poker test. That's pretty interesting and certainly sounds logical. On the same note, let me point out that I don't neces…
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stainless steel rat
January 2008
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Walter Thomason???
RJT said:While i agree with most of your points on this subject SSR, i can't agree with the above. Putting all your bankroll down on 1 50/50 bet has massive variance. While i agree that your chances of coming out ahead might be improved, the i…
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stainless steel rat
January 2008
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Walter Thomason???
shadow_priest_x said:Well definitely not all my money. . . I have been known to throw a few dollars down from time to time though, "just in case." And if you want to say, "If a progression player is ahead after 20 years then HE'…
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January 2008
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Walter Thomason???
shadow_priest_x said:Ray, I think you're very close to the point I'm trying to make. Walter never once claims in his book that he believes his progression will achieve a mathematical edge. But I also believe that he's telling the tr…
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stainless steel rat
January 2008
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Expertise needed...
jimmyc122001 said:Hello, I consider myself an intermediate player, but i've been practicing and reading quite a bit. I have a few questions that i need a senior member to answer. Here they go: 1) Is there an exact strategy(not opinions) t…
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January 2008
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Walter Thomason???
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January 2008
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Walter Thomason???
shadow_priest_x said:Oh, come now Sonny. . . Walter's made a ton of money playing Blackjack. I have no reason to doubt that he is very much ahead overall. Not by playing a progression he hasn't. If he made any money using a progression…
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stainless steel rat
January 2008
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easy question
shadow_priest_x said:Stainless. . . We both know that even for BS players good nights can come quite often and with a bit of luck it's not hard to make money without counting in any given evening. With that said, I think what she wants is a d…
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January 2008
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easy question
MoneyMaker said:if it won't let me beat the house how do people make money.. sorry if I sound rude but i still don't understand how I could sit on only 13.. if he had a 4 then if he gets a 10 or anything I loose. If he gets a 9 and hits ag…
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January 2008
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easy question
MoneyMaker said:Ok I was playing the game here and it said "don't risk busting when the dealer shows 6 or below. Stand and hope he bursts" I don't understand this. I had an 8 and 5 which is only 13, he had 4. I clicked hit and …
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January 2008
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Strategy advantage
.....As far as Grifter's "last warning" goes. He can stick _THAT_ where the sun don't shine..... The remainder of this post was deleted......Totally redundant.......Poster was also warned last year about his posts. Moderator
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stainless steel rat
December 2007
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Strategy advantage
Ray said:SSR- Not to beat a dead horse, but: If the task were an unrestricted teacher to class problem, I think we all know who turned-in their paper first and won the contest hands down. I see that as an application of common sense that does not p…
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December 2007
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Strategy advantage
stainless steel rat said:I am going to try to do this today. Here's what it does however. It uses a pseudo-random number generator to generate a stream of cards. The idea is to use random numbers to populate the "shoe" (you specify…
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December 2007
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Strategy advantage
sage01 said:SSR: If you have the time, I would like to take you up on the offer to run some sims with CVCX. Lets try about 10 + runs of anywhere from 10K to 55K hands. I assume they all run as one long session. Also does it plays the hands & no…
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stainless steel rat
December 2007
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Strategy advantage
Ray said:Sonny- Don't you agree that we have better things to talk about? What I'm trying to say here is that sometimes the end does not justify the means. Like who gives a big rats "A". I give a big rats "A" if someon…
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December 2007
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Strategy advantage
Ray said:From my point of view I don't believe that the approach being proposed here has any intelligence whatsoever. A damn fool can develop a progression to beat a billion hands if he knows the outcome of each and every hand. That is not real…
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stainless steel rat
December 2007
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Strategy advantage
Grifter said:Ray.....Jeez, are you a dense Kentucky hillbilly or something? Don't you know that 55,000 hand progressions are used everyday by real players in real casinos with real chips at a real table?.....Hell, I thought you were a lot smar…
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stainless steel rat
December 2007
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Strategy advantage
Sonny said: I understand. Is there anything special about the BJ Tracker hands or would any string of 55k hands suffice? I wrote a BJ simulator that can give the results of every hand, so a list of 55k hands (or any number for that matter) would be…
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stainless steel rat
December 2007
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Strategy advantage
...he writes, running for cover as he hits "submit reply"... dangerous territory here when someone is overlooking the basic key point that the outcome of each hand (win/lose/push) is known in advance. But it is nice to know that some &qu…
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stainless steel rat
December 2007
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Strategy advantage
Ray said:SSR- The only way to beat those 55K hands with a progression is to have it change in relation to a predetermined sequence of cards. In that case, we are talking about many progressions rather than a single defined sequence and that amounts…
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December 2007
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