How Do You Convince Somebody?
Let’s assume that I think all video poker machines in Nevada are fair — and when I say fair I mean that each unseen card has an equal probability of showing up next. Now let’s assume that I play 200,000 hands of single line Jacks or Better and do not hit a royal. That’s about [...]
Podcast – guest Michael Konik
The guest this week is Michael Konik, on to talk about his new novel, Becoming Bobby. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to [...]
Video Poker on Twitter
I have yet to join the Twitter-verse. For those still living in the 20th Century, Twitter is usually sent out over smart phones and is limited to 140 characters. Your ‘tweet’ (i.e., a message sent out on Twitter) goes out to all of your followers. They can then re-tweet and send it out to their [...]
Podcast – guest John Chang
This week’s guest is John Chang, head of the famous MIT blackjack team featured in the movie 21, and the book Bringing Down the House. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to [...]
Advice to new card counters
It seems there are a lot of new card counters on the blackjack boards recently. I don’t know if they received blackjack books as early Christmas presents, or maybe the movie 21 has been playing on cable, but for whatever reasons the new posts are proliferating, often with the same questions, and often making the [...]
Maybe Your System Doesn’t Even Work
More often than once a year, I get emails from people I’ve never met who want me to teach them to play video poker and then bankroll them. They assure me that they’ve always been good students, they’re positive they could do well at this, and they will give me a very fair share of [...]
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