Recent content by Claza

The Casino would be shooting itself in the foot if they subjected every winning blackjack player with a cellphone to a search.

I wonder if they still stone people to death for counting cards in Ethiopia.

Asian gamblers, both men and women, are a big percentage of the Casino table game playing community here in the Pacific Northwest. It doesn't come as a surprise to me at all that some of them are good at counting cards. As for the wild spread, I'm sure they can get banned as quickly as...

I use High-Low with the Illustrious 18 (kind of). The sacrifices in EV I am making for the sake of simplicity: My indexes are grouped together. I estimate the discards to the nearest deck. I avoid division altogether when in negative territory, I just bet small or not at all...

I know that the KO count has been simulation-tested to death, and it ranks about as powerful as the High-Low. There is mathematical proof that unbalanced counts actually work (even though mathematicians like Peter Griffin thought unbalanced counts don't work)...

I used a poor choice of words. It came across as if I were implying that KO was for lazy people only, and I apologize for calling you such a name. In my opinion, the better system is in the eye of the beholder. A person with my personality may prefer the clarity of High-Low even when...

If I understand correctly, they refund the seminar money ($900) to the people who pass that test in one try. They strive for perfection because they are part of the notorious MIT team. I'm sure they understand that people shouldn't slap themseves silly when 100% accuracy is not achieved...

The word "better" is such a subjective word. For me, for example, High-Low is much better than KO for simply counting. People are often intimidated by Hi-Low and other balanced counts because of the True Count conversion. This conversion is a lot less overwhelming than most people think...

He was just being sarcastic when he suggested that. CIPHER is a jerk who is conning naive suckers into "investing" their life savings in his online blackjack play. Because he came up with a super-duper trend analysis system that detects how the online random number generator works, even with...

They will call the police on you in England if you win 34 out of 44 hands? Just for beating the odds? Do people have no rights in that country?

I was there on Sunday 02/04/2007, and their single deck was 3:2, not 6:5. They did have a $5 min, 6 deck game with a CSM, but most of the tables were manually shuffled. Except for a 2 deck game where they used an ASM. The single and double decks are no double after split, double on 10...

The Ace of Spades almost always displays the brand and model. Here is a link to a site that reviews casino quality playing cards: http://www.homepokertourney.com/cards_review.htm

I too started with KO, then switched to High-Low. I really like the balanced count a lot better because it offers a less skewed picture of whether the count is high or low. Since there are more neutral cards involved, the running count is actually easier than with KO, in my honest opinion...

There is a question I can never seem to have the opportunity to ask when I play, because for me bringing up the subject of counting in casual conversation at the blackjack table is taboo. What is the Casino's justification why cardcounters are labeled as "almost-cheaters"? What is the...

I realize that nobody here subscribes to the "Flow of Cards" theory, and neither do I. I'm curious though about the logic a "Flow of Cards" believer uses. Could anybody post any links to threads or websites where people defend this practice? Is it like a Karma, positive vs. negative...