Professional Roulette Prediction by Laurance Sc...
Professional Roulette Prediction, by Laurance Scott was originally written in 1990, and then revised and re-released in 2005. The book presents a method for beating roulette through visual prediction. Scott presents a method for timing the speed of the ball, and the speed of the rotor, and using the relation of those two speeds you [...]
Keeping Focus
There’s a book entitled The Invisible Gorilla by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons which explains, in part, how our perceptions and decisions can be distorted when our attention is not properly focused on the correct action or event. The authors created a film in which players with white shorts and players with black shorts passed [...]
Ping Pang Pong revisited
I had quite a few comments about my review of Ping Pang Pong, so this week I headed back for another try. They are open from 10 am to 3 pm for Dim Sum, but I missed that. They open again at 5:00 for dinner, and I arrived just as they opened. I guess they [...]
Podcast – guest Mike Aponte of the MIT bl...
This week our guest is Mike Aponte, former member of the MIT blackjack team featured in the movie 21, and the book, Bringing Down the House. podcast Click to listen – alt click to [...]
Becoming Bobby by Michael Konik
Becoming Bobby When I was 13 I worked for a summer in my Father’s law office in downtown Chicago. I would take the Chicago & Northwestern train down to the city. When you exited the back of the Northwestern station you were faced with the Chicago River. People streamed to the left, and right to [...]
Changing Expectations
As you know, I’m primarily a video poker player, but I have played table games at the Palms often enough that I sometimes get mailers for their table games. For February, they sent me four “First Card is an Ace” coupons — one useable each week. In blackjack, an ace as a first card is [...]
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