Podcast – guest Steve Fezzik
Our guest on the show this week is sports handicapping legend, Steve Fezzik. Steve has won the Hilton Football Super Contest not once, but twice. In this episode we talk about the difference between betting for a contest, and betting to get the money. We discuss sports bettors being barred from casinos, and what happened [...]
Five Times Zero is Zero Only if You’re Ca...
I was at a Palms drawing on Friday night in mid-August. Afterwards I stopped by the Gold Coast to play a bit (4x points) and to pick up four beverage packs earned the day before. During “Thursty Thursdays,” 1,200 or more points on Thursday earns you four beverage packs (water, soda, beer) that you can [...]
Podcast – Guest Andy Bloch
Gambling With an Edge for September 1, 2011. Our guest is Andy Bloch, professional poker player with over $5 million in tournament winnings. He is also a former member of the MIT blackjack team. This is the team portrayed in the movie 21. In this episode we talk about the movie, about Andy being arrested in Monte [...]
My interview with John & Laurie C. –...
This interview was conducted in 2002 The history of blackjack has many roots at MIT. Ed Thorp, author of Beat the Dealer, did his original computer analysis at MIT on their computer. When Resorts International opened in 1978 a group of MIT students combined forces to attack the casino, and the “MIT Team” was born. [...]
New Video Poker Class Semester Begins August 31...
I’ve been teaching video poker classes fairly regularly for 14 years in Las Vegas so another semester beginning soon is hardly earth-shattering news. Still, the new semester is different in a few [...]
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