Recent content by easyrider

A Random Walk With An Upward Trend

I greatly appreciate your sensibilities. Not every AP would be so concerned with the impact of gambling on the general social welfare. Generally, gambling is destructive, stuffing the pockets of a select few who can justify feeding off the weaknesses of others, and this I can't support...

"I just heard that the issue of casinos in the sunshine state may be being pushed again in Florida." God, I hope so...

I should qualify this I strictly play the downtown garden variety SD H17 games, where RO6 normally applies...sometimes I get more. I use UAPC with all the indices (except unreasonable splits) and a side of aces, I'm also working to perfect a blocked multiparameter side with 25 indices or so...

Sure I did... that's why I wrote it. Again, I was commenting on an SD spread that wasn't Rambo-esque. Somewhere in Fred Roger's Friendly Neighborhood of 1-5. Most SD casino's will tolerate this and given this spread, strategy gains are more important...of course. If you want to spread more...

How about this? Wouldn't a single deck game favor a more conservative bet spread? Higher true counts are acheived much more frequently in an SD game, so a counter could really take a bite out of variance by incrementing a 1-5 spread every +2 or even +3 TC and still push out big bets due to...

Re: Las Vegas Review Journal story, and my respons Yes, LTC, point well taken...casinos have no right to break the law, and shouldn't assume this priviledge. I also agree with your observation that the proliferation of slots is scary. I owe this to two factors. First, Vegas is no longer...

Re: Las Vegas Review Journal story, and my respons Long Live this great board, and the principles on which it is founded, Mr. Jacobson... Just to comment on this thread a bit... The foundations of the whole casino industry are unethical at best, criminal at worse. And I have certainly met...