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blackjackexpert

  1. Ironic: Casinos hire Bill Zender, author of a book on how casinos cheat at blackjack, as a consultant yet treat winners like me as the enemy
  2. I've said this before I'll say it again: casinos are earning their bad rep by barring winners. They blame everyone but themselves.
  3. Thurs: Indiana card counter case decided ag card counter by IN state supreme court. Court rules casinos can bar counters. Bad ruling bad day
  4. The "World's Greatest Blackjack Book" w data by IBM's Julian Braun said you'd "almost break even" with basic strategy. It's a loser. Get it?
  5. See p18 of Beat The Dealer to see how poorly basic strategy is. Thorp said the "advantage" was .12% at best. -1% if they shuffle before end.
  6. Old school bunk: Each up card busts a dependably constant amount of time. The 2, 35%, the 3, 38%. False.
  7. Up card busting rates are variable. So the equations used to create basic strategy are NOT valid. The number must be constants to work.
  8. Old school bunk: "Let the dealer bust." NO DEALER UP CARD BUSTS MORE THAN 43%. The 4-6 SCORE 57-58% of the time! Do the math.
  9. Old school nonsense: "Assume the hole card is a 10." What kind of math is that? These are mathematicians? 69% of the cards are NOT 10s!
  10. Am doing seminars Oct 23 in Hartford, Oct 30 in Albuquerque and Nov 13 in Denver. See blackjacktoday.com for tix and info!
  11. My June 12 seminar is filling up fast. Some tix are still available. I don't do these very often, so don't wait for me to do another!
  12. I'll give you the URL to get the cheapest tix available: blackjacktoday.com/BigSeminar.htm
  13. Most of those coming to my June 12 seminar are flying in from thousands of miles away. One is driving roundtrip from Texas.
  14. And the player driving in from Texas has already taken 3 or more of my seminars. That's what players think of my seminars. See u there?
  15. The card counter case ag an Indiana casino goes to IN State Supreme Court this week. Real bad PR for casino industry. Don't they see it?
  16. A co's offering iphone "blackjack trainer." Such a waste of time. A basic strategy card sums up the old school method. And it's a loser.
  17. Haven't read it yet but "Repeat Until Rich" makes strange statement that makes me wonder if it's for real or fictional like Mezrich's book.
  18. It says after 9/11 author had to quit playing in Vegas because taking enough cash on planes became too restrictive and difficult.
  19. If you want to play Vegas, you get a home out there and a bank account and you have ready cash. So I don't get that claim.
  20. Anyone who's serious about winning should come June 12. I've got some killer new methods that'll blow you away.