He lost me when he suggested playing at tables with full ashtrays.
Me too! I kept moving my laptop from table to table - coffee table, kitchen table - I moved after small losses, and when I moved to a dirty ash tray I had my best results of all. zgI ran a sim and the tables with full ash trays indeed did have better results... :laugh:
Me too! I kept moving my laptop from table to table - coffee table, kitchen table - I moved after small losses, and when I moved to a dirty ash tray I had my best results of all. zg
Here's the best - play in your room for hours on free PC game, untill you have a BIG downward spike, then go down to the casino (you're due) and directly to a very dirty ash tray'd table. zgNo wonder I get such bad variance sometimes. I don't smoke!
Maybe I should carry some cigarette butts with me to the casino.
Boris went on to this (FractalClump)-Patterson was not really a researcher. He ran a respected BJ school. Eddie Olsen designed the TAble Research, Grading and Evaluation Technique (TARGET.) Patterson sold it and ordered his instructors to start teaching it. There was a revolt and Patterson lost all respect in the field. Even the designer, Olsen, backed off of TARGET and started emphasizing counting again. Yet Patterson has continued to sell it to this day (mostly via Ron Fitch AKA Boris.)
See http://www.blackjack-scams.com/html/card_clumping.html
Patterson's research and development activities in casino blackjack started in 1963 when he was working with two of the developers of the original basic strategy -- Will Cantey and Herb Maisel.
Its bullsh*t anyway, so he couldn't remember that name. zgwhere was Roger Baldwin at this time?