Recent content by MadMax

I wasn't referring your post, but to what gerald said. I am intrigued about this betting style. Not that I think it will work, but to see where it stands. I would like to make a continuum of all the systems I've heard or can imagine. My main interest is mainly with the percentage of how often...

You don't have to ask him to know what he did. He was just lucky. I will have to run some sims to see what kind of strategy that was, but the guy didn't know what he was doing any more than 90% of the players out there. Max

It is part of ace tracking. But I find it highly suspect that they are looking for the ace of clubs in particular. That sounds a little like chance. Unless there is some bonus for matching suit blackjack. Hmm. Max

It's pretty good. It gives you a perspective on how tournaments are set and run, what to expect, and some on how to play. If you want to learn more about the fundamentals of tournament play I suggest Stanford Wong's Casino Tournament Strategy. It is a good place to start on learning to play...

I'm not so sure that BJ is such a losing proposition for the casinos. If played perfectly wrong it yields the highest profits for the casinos. You can't play a game like roulette wrong, there is no decision to make. But in blackjack where the entire game is composed of decisions, it can be...

Neither of those conclusions will happen. While BJ is still the most popular casino game it will change very little. In the past what has made the rules change was the publication of revolutionary books. The casino is so afraid of changing a game in their favor, that it takes something really...

I couldn't agree more.:D Max

Make sure that you can count the cards in combinations (e.g. pairs, triples, etc). Don't count each card as it comes out. Count on the second round. Then, if a player hits, splits or doubles count that card as well. Sometimes you can look at two players' hands at once and they might cancel each...

I'm not sure that casinos work with the same idea of supply and demand. They change the rules to stop us, yet we only attract more "bad" players to blackjack and take only a pebble from their mountain. Surely there is a way to get them to abandon such poor rules. Maybe a "book" needs to be...

Counting is not that hard. You do not have to memorize 312 card. I liked Kevin Blackwood's book Play Blackjack Like the Pros. I would consider the source when listening to advice. As nice as the dealer may be, while probably uniformed, still works for the bad guy. Bankroll is important, but you...

If you are not going to employ card counting, then I would suggest that you take out a sheet of paper, write "I will lose money today" and read that for your book, because that is the real thing. I don't mean to sound harsh, but that is the mathematical fact. Read a book on probability first...

My first response is that Oscar's Grind or any other progressive system does NOT make money in the long-term. The first obstacle that should be readily obvious and has been overly discussed on this forum is the maximum limit placed on betting at any given table. There is no reason to keep...

Maybe my point was overshadowed a bit, and that was that progressives for cover are more costly than other means of "fooling" the casinos. I think that remodeling a losing scheme puts us in the same place we were, with a losing scheme. Progessives don't work for making money in the long-term...

Just from my experience, I find it easier to not count the dealer upcard until s/he flips over the other card. This is just my technique and I do it this way so that the dealer upcard doesn't get accidentally counted twice. I know that I could just be careful, but I think that this is easier...

Progressive as Cover I've given this some consideration (using a progressive system as cover). And I've tried it out with CVBJ. The only time that it is at all feasible is when the count on a shoe is so low that it has no possiblitity of returning to the positive, but this leads to a major...