Craps Master said:
Okay, but you're also not an expert and not a professional player. For starters, you have a job, don't you? Didn't you say something about being an engineer?
"Expert," "genius'", and "hero" are three words you never want to use about yourself. Let other people say those words about you. I have a couple of pieces of paper on my office wall that say I'm an expert on using computers and their output to solve engineering problems.
Is blackjack an engineering problem? Sometimes, and it can be aproached as one sometimes. I have no idea what your analytical credentials are and if you have the ability to apply Monte Carlo outputs to blackjack approaches. That's not meant as a put-down (and you should have figured out by now I'm not into putting people down) just an acknowledgement that different people have different skills. If that's the case, then it's understandable that the QFIT package is of no use to you. Some of your fellow players have ways to use it, and use it intensively.
Craps Master said:
This makes you a weekend warrior at best. Your experience is limited, and you don't play for very high stakes,
Yes, I'm a weekend warrior. But I take my weekend wars very seriously, because my money means as much to me as yours does to you. I'm a very blessed person, and I wouldn't enjoy using my blessings to play a zero-sum game full-time. Designing and producing things of value gives me more satistfaction.
Hey I broke into my bankroll this week to buy a new boat. I think I'll name the boat "Red Chip", because that's what I'll be playing for for the next couple of months. Life is tough for a monkey, I know.
Craps Master said:
and you probably don't use much of an array of techniques or much in the way of creativity when it comes to getting the money through advantage play.
I use an array of techniques, some of them creative. This is one of the things you learn very early in your engineering career- making new tools and developing new methods might be satisfying, but you don't make a new tool when there is one already in your box that will do the job. For example when a dealer is showing his hole card, you don't need a very creative technique to sit down and
get the money. It's actually a pretty boring technique. If I see a good old fashioned single-deck game with deep pen, I know exactly what to do with it, and the creativity will be reserved for my cover.
Craps Master said:
You talk a good game, but how much have you really made from shuffle tracking in your life? A few thousand? Or maybe you've lost a few thousand? Your opinion about whether QFIT's software is useful for working professionals or aspiring professionals is largely irrelevant to the truth of whether it is, which it isn't.
I've made money using a few techniques ranging from the straightforward to the sleazy. Ever pick your nose and use it to mark a card? All right, then.
Look software is just a tool. I can give you a screwdriver, and you don't have to be an engineer or an expert on tool steels to determine whether it can remove a screw or not. Nor does it make any sense to say it's not a good screwdriver, because it's not a wrench. The software does the job I need it to do.
