Podcast – guest Ken Adams
The guest this week is Ken Adams. Ken is a prolific writer about the gambling industry. You can read his work at cdcgamingreports.com podcast Click to listen – Alt click to [...]
The Endowment Effect in Video Poker
A few columns ago, I mentioned that I was reading Nobel Prize Winner Daniel Kahneman’s book Thinking, Fast and Slow. Although today’s column was inspired by that book, I’m extrapolating some of Kahneman’s arguments into areas that weren’t discussed in his writing. That is always risky business — especially since this is not my field [...]
Shuffle Tracking & Ace Sequencing
Card counters spend a lot of time learning to count. They memorize basic strategy, then slowly learn to cancel the pluses and minuses. Next they learn to estimate the number of cards in the discard rack, and adjust their running count to a true count. They memorize index plays so they know when it is [...]
Podcast – guest Cat Hulbert
Our guest this week is Cat Hulbert. Cat was a professional blackjack player 30+ years ago. She played with the Czechs, and on the Ken Uston team in Atlantic City. She then turned to professional poker. She is the author of Outplaying the Boys, and is featured in Gambling Wizards. podcast Click to listen – [...]
Casinos Have All The Advantages
One of the nicest things about hosting a radio show that finishes at 8 p.m. is that afterwards the guests and hosts can often go out and enjoy a drink or meal together. Almost always our guests have been bright and interesting people who usually specialize in a form of advantage gambling that is different [...]
Gambling With An Edge – guest Mark Billin...
The guest this week is Mark Billings, author of The Ultimate Edge. The book talks about blackjack in the 1980s. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to [...]
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