Recent content by Barfarkel

Just to clear things up First of all, thanks to all for your interest in the new e-book - I'm only sorry it won't be a print book like the first one. Like you've said, it'll be titled <I>You've Got Heat - Volume 2 - Turning up the Heat </I> and will be available on BJinsider.com and BJ21.com. I...

You've Got Heat Thanks SystemsTrader and DPMonk2003 and Sonny for the kudos re: You've Got Heat. There are no concrete plans for a sequel, although I have about 70% of the material already written. Some of you may have read those trip reports that occurred after the end of the book on the...

Also Are you setting BJRM to Full Kelly? Most pros I know use 1/3rd Kelly or 1/4th Kelly - usually they don't even go to half-Kelly optimal bets. Otherwise it's too risky long term. Cheers, Barfarkel

For those of you not yet sick to death over the shameless self promotion for my book, there's a new Barfarkel Interview on the http://www.Youvegotheat.com site. This one took place last November for the Pat Benton Side Bets online radio show. http://www.youvegotheat.com/index.htm I...

21 Player I have a signed autographed copy of your book.......and I really enjoyed reading every story in it. Before your book came out I couldn't wait to get BJI newsletter to read about your most recent escapade to Vegas. [side note: You gotta slow down on your trips up there or you will not...

Okay.... ...I can't have a book boycott because I've been so busy I haven't had time to post here, or anywhere else for that matter. Zengrifter has always had a talent for getting people to open up and share info, so here's my fave places to play in Vegas: Plaza Vegas Club...

Continuing in a long series of shameless self-promotions, I'll be interviewed on the Pat Benton Side Bets online radio show this coming Friday night. You'll have to tune in live because they don't yet archive their interviews. Here's how the blurb reads on the You've Got Heat website: Listen to...

Henry Tamburin is offering Cardcounter.com members a free three-month membership to his Blackjack Insider Newsletter. The newsletter features advice for blackjack players at all skill levels, playing and betting strategy advice for tournaments from tournament experts, detailed trip reports by...

Not quite what we had in mind *LINK* I know you don't want to give away any good games you're currently exploiting, but how about something on either general low stakes tips for downtown LV games, or a "how to get started" piece on ace tracking? Actually, any subject from you related to...

Good suggestion *LINK* I for one would like to read a Zengrifter podium or three. Cheers, Barfarkel

Thanks Double-o-Seven *LINK* Thanks for the kudos re: my book. I should point out that those few simple paragraphs in You've Got Heat refer to simple cut-off tracking, not the more sophisticated and harder to master skill of full-on shuffle tracking. I tried to make the concepts in the book...

Cool! Save me a dozen copies, ok? *LINK* And thanks for posting the new LV Tribune article. Cheers, Barfarkel

I got the news a few weeks ago - Dutton's book store has scheduled for me to sign copies of my book You've Got Heat - The Vegas Card Counting Adventures of LV Pro at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. This annual book fair is always held during an April weekend on the UCLA campus. It's...

You could always... *LINK* ...ask the pit if you could play $10 minimum at an idle table which has a $25 posted sign. Just tell them you'll get the table action started for them - in their eyes you're basically acting as a shill. This used to work fairly often for me in Vegas, but I'm not sure...

Try these two venues *LINK* Bootlegger's Lounge on south Las Vegas Blvd, near Warm Springs Road, south of the airport. Also I've started to hear good things about the old Casbar Lounge at the Sahara, where Louie Prima used to wow the town after hours. Check the lounges at Bellagio from time...