[Note: Season 1 of Colin Jones will resume next time, and there is further good news: Netflix and GWAE have announced that Colin Jones is renewed for Season 2!] A few times per year, my elderly parents used to make the drive from New Jersey to Boston. Like all old people who haven’t grasped the […]
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A New Game for Me
I was looking at dollar progressives and found a 9/6 Triple Double Bonus Poker game where the royal was at $5,300, aces without a kicker were at $1,400, and the two kicker jackpots were just slightly higher than reset. It was a bartop game, the meters rose by 1% with each dollar played, and nobody […]
How I Order Food
I recommend you start out with reading Matthew Dicks’ Facebook post from July 2, 2021. Matt is one of my storytelling gurus and has posted daily posts “forever.” This time he writes about how he and his wife’s different eating habits mesh well with those of a few friends. Matt (and the female friend) like […]
Colin Jones (S1 E6): The Secret to Investing—OP...
I walked off a game the other day, and I have Colin Jones to thank. On paper, the game could be a 20% edge or higher. In the real world? Not so much. My frustration grew. Why am I playing this 10% garbage? I’m out. Where does Colin Jones fit into this? Something he wrote […]
Colin Jones (S1 E5): Dark Matter
As early as page 11 of The 21st-Century Card Counter, Colin Jones mentions the monolithic truth of the universe: “the team’s performance was consistently lower than the math predicted.” Such has been the experience of every team in the history of AP, and every solo card counter, too. When teams look at their spreadsheets and […]
A Look at Arnold Snyder’s Radical Blackjack
Arnold Snyder is one of the initial seven members inducted into the Blackjack Hall of Fame. His book, Radical Blackjack, published by Huntington Press, has been in the works for years. I’ve heard many of the stories in it from Arnold himself, but I finally got to read it and there were lot of new […]
What is “Blackjack”?
Episode 5 of Colin Jones will air on its regular schedule next time, but this recent comment on the GWAE Facebook page deserves (maybe) an immediate reply: Marketing the 6:5 variant as just straight blackjack is as preposterous as a casino marketing the house table game “Casino poker” “3card Poker” with a house edge dealt […]
End of An Era?
In late May of this year, I sent an email to the powers that be at the South Point letting them know that I wished to resume teaching free video poker classes on Tuesdays in September. I was told that they would discuss it at the staff meeting and get back to me. This is […]
Colin Jones (S1 E4): In the Beginning …
In The 21st-Century Card Counter, Colin Jones describes how he started out: [p. 6] “I convinced Grace to let me take a third of everything we had in the bank—$2000—to the casino. If I lost it, I’d be done.” Those two sentences sum up two of the biggest challenges facing a new counter or AP. […]
Colin Jones (S1 E3): What is “Real”?
When I read gambling books, I usually dog-ear pages of interest. With Colin Jones’s book, The 21st-Century Card Counter, I had to change my approach. It made no sense to dog-ear every page, so I just started circling passages and writing notes in the margins. In lieu of a traditional book review evaluating the book, […]
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