I recently saw a Northwestern Mutual commercial which aired during the college football playoffs. Although it ended as an advertisement for their insurance company, the part that interested me said: There are no accidental champions. You can’t hope your way to victory. Titles aren’t won at the end of the season. They are won in […]
Podcast – APs Andrew and Brad
Our guests this week are advantage players Andrew and Brad.Andrew and Brad set out to scout casinos in Oklahoma. Being avid listeners to our show they had heard the horror stories of people having their money confiscated by police in Interstate 40. Sure enough they were pulled over on I-40 and the police found their […]
I Can’t Bet
The death of Eric Garner is disturbing. If you haven’t seen the video by now, you spend too much time counting in casinos! Here’s one of many links to Youtube clips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7jtXXf4tMM. What you may not have seen are the videos of card counter Justin Mills getting backroomed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBdk1yG2pmU, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlMexfd2e8s, and http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-card-counting-20141027-story.html. We’ll get back […]
Whose Money is it Anyway?
You’re going on a two week vacation and back home you frequent a number of casinos. Let’s say they give you $40 a week in free play. How do you deal with that? Some casinos, not many, will hold the money for you and let you collect it when you get back. Some casinos, again […]
Airline Fare Redemption
For the sake of discussion, let’s say I lived somewhere in New York and regularly flew to Las Vegas to play for big stakes. Further, let’s say the airfare cost me $600. If I play enough at one casino, sometimes I can get them to pick up the airfare. It’s a lot harder than it […]
How Do You Interpret?
As I wrote last week, Bonnie and I recently returned from a comped cruise on the Norwegian Dawn. Laundry service was included in the package, and on one particular night both of my long pants had been sent to the laundry. I had expected the laundry to be returned prior to dinner, but such was […]
A Sense of Entitlement
Bonnie and I had to skip our European honeymoon six months ago due to her health. She’s feeling better now and so we went on two back-to-back cruises out of New Orleans-the first November 30 – December 7 on the Carnival Dream and the second departing a few hours later, December 7 – December 14, […]
Podcast – Surveillance Agent Jay
Agent Jay has been working in Las Vegas surveillance rooms for over 20 years. He is our guest this week to tell us what surveillance people are looking for when watching for advantage players. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to download
What Makes Ultimate X So Volatile?
I’ve been playing $1 Ten Play 9/6 Double Double Bonus Ultimate X (DDB UX) for about two years at the Palms. It’s supposed to be a 99.87% game when played perfectly. The perfect strategy is very complicated. The simplified strategy I use is worth a bit less. With the 0.25% slot club, mailer, drawings, etc., […]
How Casinos Cheat
Many of you may have read James Grosjean’s blog posts entitled How Casinos Cheat. If not you can find his excellent blog here, Beyond Numbers. I very much agree with JG that the danger of being cheated by a casino is not them dealing you seconds, or hitting you with a cooler. They have a […]
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