Screwed up magazine article

[annabanana]

Something seemed pretty wrong to me as I was reading Fred Renzey's card counting article in my April Midwest Gaming & Travel. It made some of the counting systems look like get rich quick systems. It had Speed Count yielding a net player advantage between 40% and 89%. WOW. I emailed the editor and was told that those actually were not the author's numbers, but a mistake in the typesetting. Because of that and other mistakes, they said the correct version of the article will be re-run in the June issue and it will be posted on their website as well. I didn't believe for minute that Renzey could be that far off. The clown that did the typesetting obviously doesn't know much about blackjack.

 

[Renzey]

Something seemed pretty wrong to me as I was reading Fred Renzey's card counting article in my April Midwest Gaming & Travel. It made some of the counting systems look like get rich quick systems.

Yes, publishing said that something went haywire with the decoding of anything that contained a percent sign. A couple of words also got inverted, such as using "balanced" in place of "unbalanced". The actual EV's that were intended to appear were +0.25% for the Ace/10 Front Count, +0.40% to +0.50% for the Speed Count, and +0.50% for the entry level KISS1.

Anyway, the entire "World's Easiest Card counting Systems" article is scheduled to reappear in June with its seven typos in bold print. So Sorry.