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Item: Immortality Discuss above assertion in context.

What? It's hard to imagine somebody handing over a win on those grounds. What are the details?

Your consequences list left out: --Casino Employee commmitting suicide (yes, it happened) Many of the problems, particularly idiotic things like hitting hard 17, can be solved by the simple rule: don't be greedy. Unfortunately, there are many idiot wannabe lol "APs".

Yeah, and multiply all that by 10^4 if your skin is too dark, or you appear "foreign", muslim, sikh, etc...

For European Hole Card (Lose all to natural, draw from infinite deck): Keep BJ, Dealer gets 10 (result: push) Vs. Double down on BJ: 9/13 * 2 bets won when dealer gets non-10 = +1.38461538 4/13 * 2 bets lost when dealer gets 10 = -0.615384615...

Not sure what it means, but this is the 666th thread in this sub-forum. :devil:

There actually *is* one useful insight possible from counting down a csm...if you should continually get ever higher plus counts, that never ever come down, you are playing against a shorted shoe! ;)

He seems like a forkin' genius to me: "Is it possible to be asain and still be a solid player? Unlike many guys i dont like asain women dealers their accent and constant use of the word sir instead of being warm and friendly calling me by name is annoying as hell." --recent post from his...

Actually, I should've posted "is often likely to be completely inappropriate", based on the observation of police pursuit policies over the years both in the media and in public. There was a case just recently of a motor police officer who was killed (ironically during a funeral procession for...

Actually, you DO sound like a police apologist, since that 400 number is totally bogus (as shown here by a source that is if anything biased in favor of law enforcement): http://www.nleomf.org/facts/officer-fatalities-data/ Note, about half of those deaths involve car crashes, where the...

http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2011/09/19/asset-forfeiture-getting-worse/

Again, you are jumbling, confusing, and misstating various things here. LS is worth more in multideck *to the basic strategist*. For a counter, who is making large bets *far more frequently* and making LS decisions *far more frequently* in single deck games due to much greater count...

By this line of thinking, going from a game with 0.0 edge off the top to one with 0.1 edge off the top means you have "inflated your disadvantage" infinitely! Which is senseless. For a card counter, going from a game with to a game without soft double means making about .1 less money...

Except that you said: "Being unable to double your soft hands is quite costly; requiring DEEP penetration and/or a wide bet ramp to make the game exploitable." Nope, it is NOT "quite costly", and the lack of the rule does NOT necessarily require deep penetration or some massive spread to...

No it isn't. It costs about .1 to the basic strategy edge, and isn't all that well correlated with the count.