The guest this week is Buddy Frank. Buddy has been a casino director in slots and marketing for 25+ years, and now runs a small consulting business. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to download
The Cheating Game
I learned many things about the game of poker from Jim McManus’ excellent history of the game, Cowboys Full. One thing that surprised me was that, in the early days of poker in America, cheating was so rampant that poker was widely known as the “cheating game.” On Mississippi riverboats and throughout the Old West, […]
There’s More to EV than Just EV
“EV” stands for expected value, which is a type of weighted average. The exact definition I’ll leave to the probability and statistics textbooks. As cut and dried as the definition is in the math books, there’s plenty of wiggle room in the way it’s applied to video poker. Before we discuss this wiggle room, let’s […]
The End of Days for CGT
Cantor Gaming, subsequently Cantor Gaming Technology (CGT), was formed in 2004 and in 2009 made a big splash in the Vegas sports betting market with it’s outlet at the newly opened M Resort. Over the next few years they became known as the place to go if you wanted to bet big and gained the […]
Podcast – guest Olympic Gold Medalist Con...
Our guest this week is Connor Fields. Connor won the 2016 Olympic gold medal for BMX racing. This is likely the only show we will do with a gold medalist unless we can get Charles Barkley on to talk about his gambling stories. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to download
Was She Talking Like a Woman or Talking Like a ...
Using stereotypes to say “women are this way and men are that way” in today’s political climate is a formula guaranteed to generate multiple negative comments. Rightfully so. There is very little interesting where you can say that every female (or every male) is a certain way. There are always exceptions. With that said, there […]
Are Women the Dutch Book?
Last week, as part of the celebration for International Women’s Day (March 8), a statue of a defiant girl staring down the Wall Street bull appeared. Count me among those who love the statue and hope it will stay. It is no secret that women are under-represented in many fields, including the AP world, as I discussed […]
Podcast – guest Greg “FossilmanR...
Our guest this week is Greg Raymer, also known as Fossilman. Greg is a professional poker player best known for winning the World Series of Poker main event in 2004. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to download
Whom Do You Trust?
I’m showing my age, but I remember the “Who Do You Trust?” television show hosted by Johnny Carson before he got the Tonight Show gig. He always said later that the first word should have been “Whom” rather than “Who,” and if you can’t trust Johnny Carson, whom can you trust? Many of the people […]
Podcast – guest Brian Zembic – The ...
Our guest this week is Brian Zembic, also known as The Man With the $100,000 Breasts. His story was first told in the book with that title. Basically Brian put in breast implants to win a $100,000 bet. The man who lost the bet, Mike Svobodny told his side of the story in Gambling Wizards. […]
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