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Do you guys have any hobbies, other than the dancing for Mr. Dancer. Do you guys play games not at an advantage, pool, bowling, golf, etc. Hobbies
Like to hear you discuss the comp game in other areas of the country. Also curious how many hours a week are each of you playing these days and on what (video poker, blackjack, carnival games, ect)
1) for Munchkin – can u talk about how u simulate table games, what your education background is, or how u find out if a new carnival game is being offered in a new casino.
2)what % of your play is in the USA vs worldwide?
3) Favorite casino in the USA? in the world? why?
I’m a 10+year small-mid stakes poker player beginning to dabble in other forms of advantage play. I’ve learned hi-low and have double deck strategy memorize but am down ~$300 over my first 40 hours spreading $5-50.
Questions:
1) What’s the best way to actually confirm that I’m doing this right? I understand variance and am not concerned about the money — purposefully playing small enough for it not to matter — but just don’t know if I need to study more or if I’m running bad.
2) Got backed off a small time game and have already noticed heat in 1-2 other casinos (I live in the Las Vegas area). I THINK the back-off was because I had the wizardofodds strategy sheet on the table for my first 5-10 hours. I assumed I was betting so small (spreading $5-25 at the time) that no would care no matter how obvious I made it. The pitboss almost whispered to me that I could play anything except blackjack and told the dealer to stop dealing to me after a shoe where I got a good count and ran well. Question** What’s the best way to handle a back-off? I nodded and left without saying a word — this casino has good video poker and I didn’t want to risk anything bad happening. I also wanted to just ask ‘why?’ and play dumb about any sort of card counting. What’s the best thing to do when noticing heat?
3) I hear all the time about beating carnival games — what’s a good place to start for this? From my understanding of listening to your show it sounds like it’s mostly because of sloppy dealers?
How can gamblers capitalize (safest bet to win) on the Connor Mcgregor vs. Floyd Mayweather fight in Vegas on Aug 26? I believe Mayweather will have an advantage and will win a boxing match against Mcgregor, but he would lose a MMA fight or an outright street fight against him or any other comparable fighter. Some media whores are dubbing this a superfight but I don’t see it that way with Mcgregor giving up an edge to his opponent.
I’m surprised that the pit got paranoid with your Wizardofodds strategy card and backed you off from a game.
It seems like they wanted to stop any type of educated play in it’s tracks on their tables. Does the Wizardofodds advertise their website on billboards and what not around Vegas?
I have not seen any Wizard of Vegas advertising around Vegas. When Shack comes on our show periodically, he advertises it there.
I’ve heard of an actual freeway sign with the Wizard of Odds
http://wizardofvegas.com/forum/off-topic/general/23121-wizardofodds-com-freeway-sign/
I’ll ask a somewhat basic question.
How many good years do you guys feel you have left as players before calling it quits?
How do you get heat with a slot machine if it’s all controlled by computers? And the same thing with blackjack shufflemaster. I know a lot of times if they suspected I’m counting, they turn the algorithm on and clump the tens together and clump the aces with neutral cards. So the true count stays between -1 and -5
How do you know when to play two hands when the truecount is up? Every time I seem to put in another hand it gets worst and I’m losing twice as much now because either the dealer is getting all the good hands or another player
In the WSOP and other tournaments which are self funded there looks to be a hold back of around 10% of the total entry fees to cover expenses. Since there is no big outside sponsorship, broadcast rights fees or spectator gate money to cover costs this is reasonable for all but one WSOP event. How much does ESPN pay WSOP for the coverage of the Main Event and would it be appropriate for the actors in this program to expect a piece of the action? How about starting at a 100% payback plus a cut of the rights fees added to the total purse?
” they turn the algorithm on and clump the tens together and clump the aces with neutral cards. ”
They can do that?
No, they can’t. Many people see what they think are unusual patterns in things that are just random.
Thanks. I thought that was the case.
Would like to sincerely request Richard to discuss “traveling bankroll’; how much cash should you carry!
Thank You, to you both, for your service to the gambling community.
I read in Bob Dancers million dollar video poker that he had played machines that were giving him reward points at a slot rate as opposed to the video poker rate.
My question is, does the casino see the action being played on these machines as slots or video poker in their comp system? And if the former, how much more valuable is it to play a machine that’s giving out tier points at the wrong rate?