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A Scholarship Offer
In last week’s column, I reprinted a seven-year-old article I wrote about Edward Thorp saying that gambling is a tax on ignorance, which I would amend to being a tax on the ignorant and the lazy. Soon after I wrote that, John Chang (former long-time manager of the MIT blackjack team) appeared on GWAE and […]
A Tax on Ignorance
This article was originally published by me on July 24, 2012. Someone recently commented on it to me and I went back to check it out. I feel the article has stood up well over the past seven years and is worth revisiting, partly because many of my readers today weren’t readers way back then. […]
Take Care of Your Money
As I told you last week, I was recently reading Colin Jones’ new book, The 21st Century Card Counter, preparing to interview him for the GWAE podcast. Although Colin is addressing his comments towards blackjack players, a lot of the general information is useful to video poker players as well. Today’s column was inspired by […]
How Often Do You Test Yourself?
I was recently reading Colin Jones’ new book, The 21st Century Card Counter, preparing to interview him for the GWAE podcast. Colin has been on the show a number of times and runs the Blackjack Apprentice Group which teaches players how to win at blackjack. When referring to while he was running a blackjack team, […]
The Most Important Thing in Being a Successful ...
There are a number of aspects to being a successful video poker player. Let’s list the major ones: 1. Know how to play the game(s) competently. 2. Play the game(s) without making unnecessary errors. What I mean is that you’re able to concentrate and translate what you know into how you play. 3. Obtain and […]
Those Who Don’t Know History are Doomed to Repe...
The title quote is attributed to Edmund Burke, among others. But it applies to something that happened in Las Vegas recently. I didn’t see it all and there are parts of the story I don’t have, but the part I do have is plenty interesting. On Wednesday, July 17, I received a text from a […]
The Value of the Right Partner to a Successful ...
There are a couple of possible meanings to the word ‘partner,’ and I want to be clear at the start how I am using the word. I’m talking about a life partner. Male, female, same sex or not, married or not. It’s somebody you are emotionally and financially connected with. I’m going to be using […]
Choosing Between Promotions
In playing to win, you need to figure out where to spend your time. I came across such a dilemma recently and tried to figure out how to solve it. The problem was too complex for me to solve completely, but I created a simplified model using “reasonable” assumptions and was able to come up […]
Least Favorite Type of Promotion
Casinos have promotions all the time. Some are very useful to the winning player (such as point multipliers) and some are basically useless (such as 2-for-1 Margaritas during happy hour on Tuesdays.) Today I want to write about what promotions I like the least and invite you to respond. Wherever you originally read this article, […]
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