Podcast – guest Jake Jacobs 2
Our guest this week is backgammon professional and author, Jake Jacobs. We talk to Jake about his new novel, The Battered Butterfly, as well as about some of his many gambling exploits. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to [...]
How Would I Go About It?
The following is a hypothetical problem set at an unidentified casino: Assume the games are single line, for dollars, and I play $20,000 coin-in a month. Assume the slot club pays 0.25% and the mailer gives me $160 a month (i.e. $40 a week times four weeks) as long as I play $20,000 or more [...]
Podcast – Rick Blaine author of Blackjack...
Our guest this week is Rick Blaine, author of Blackjack Blueprint. This is a terrific book for counters, newly updated in May, 2014. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to [...]
The Principles are the Same
I periodically attend a dinner hosted by Tommy and Debby Hyland. Tommy has run a large blackjack team for decades and is a member of the Blackjack Hall of Fame. A number of gamblers of various stripes are invited to these dinners and the conversation is often stimulating. Tommy is also a very good golfer [...]
Checking out the Downtown Grand
I don’t read a newspaper. I pay attention to the news, but get it online. Bonnie has subscribed to the Las Vegas Review-Journal for 20 years and reads it daily. She is not particularly savvy about gambling offers, but she cuts out many of them and places them in my office. Mostly I either already [...]
Podcast – guest David Switzer
The guest this week is David Switzer. David just received two masters degrees from UNLV, and we will be discussing his professional paper, “Casinos can increase table games revenue by properly training employees and adjusting many of the procedures currently used on their games that are aimed at stopping advantage players.” podcast Click to listen – Alt click [...]
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