Podcast – Mail Bag 9/30/2021
No guest this week as we once again dip into the mail bag. We welcome your questions – send them to us at [email protected], or you can find me at @RWM21 on Twitter or https://www.facebook.com/GamblingWithAnEdge. . Show Notes [00:00] Introduction [00:32] Video poker progressive with a must-hit-by amount [02:08] Hole carding practice [05:26] Civilian criticism of hitting A7 vs 10 [...]
Colin Jones (S2 E3): Courage
In the half century since Ed Thorp published Beat the Dealer, dozens of card counting systems have been developed and promoted. Any numbers nerd with a simulator and a couch can sit there and spit out card counting systems, complete with all the technical mumbo jumbo about the method of index generation, the true-count conversion, [...]
A Look at Double Double Bonus Poker Plus
Perhaps this is a very old game, but I just saw it for the first time recently. It looked interesting, so I thought I’d analyze it. I was playing $5 NSU Deuces at Harrah’s Cherokee and had just hit four deuces for a $5,000 jackpot. Always nice, but it’s a once-every-5,356-hands event on average, so [...]
The Card Counter review
There has been a lot of talk about the new Paul Schrader movie, “The Card Counter.” Here is a review by our guest reviewer, Jake Jacobs. A fair proportion of you are no doubt as interested in the verisimilitude of The Card Counter as in its merits qua cinematic experience. From a professional gambler’s viewpoint, [...]
Colin Jones (S2 E2): A Brain and a Little BR
In his book The 21st-Century Card Counter, Colin Jones talks about bankroll requirements. On page 81, in the chapter “Do I have What It Takes? The DNA of a Card Counter” he says this: “A card counter needs only two tools: a brain and a bankroll.” When I read that sentence, I almost threw an [...]
Podcast – Captain Jack Andrews and Rufus ...
Our guests this week are professional sports bettors, Captain Jack Andrews, and Rufus Peabody. This is part 2 of our discussion on their new site unabated.com. This is a site with tools to help sports bettors trying to get an edge. No touts, no affiliate ads, just good information and tools for players trying to find [...]
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