Recent content by Joe Mama

There are several sites where you can practice (including this site) where mistakes are flagged. I like the BlackjackApprentice trainer myself, but there are several. You can start by using your cheat sheet are gradually move away from using it.

Bad variance sucks, but it happens. If you are doing things correctly, it will even out in the long haul. The key is to keep playing with an advantage whether you are up or down. It's not your money anymore once you've lost it; it's the casino's money. On the flip side, when you are winning you...

:eek:Welcome to the flat earth society:eek:

The roulette game is +EV. If you played the roulette game under your proposed rules over and over you would get rich. If you swapped the envelopes over and over you would end up where you started. The roulette spins are independent events, the envelope swaps are not. Look at the envelope...

So if you gave one envelope to one person, and the other to another person, and they continually swapped envelopes with each other they would both become billionaires realizing a 25% average gain for each on each swap. Ridiculous!

So, its positive EV always to switch. Suppose you gave one envelope to person A and the other to person B, then it would be positive EV for Person A to switch with person B and also positive EV for person B to switch with person A? CRAZY!!

When I get something like this and toss it around in my head, I may wake in the middle of the night or early the next morning and see it clearly and say AHA! Pleasant dreams!

2 Envelopes. Envelope #1 has A $ Envelope # has 2xA $ You are given an envelope at random, you have a 50% chance of having 2xA $, and a 50% chance of having A $. You switch envelopes, you now have a 50% chance of switching to A $, and a 50% chance of switching to 2xA $. Would you be willing...

Hmmmm...., clearly no

This is the original post, pretty clear "there are 2 envelopes"

What you have to lose is only the time to go back and forth. There are only 2 envelops! Switching indefinitely has one of two results - a) 100,50,100,50,100 ... or, b)100,200,100,200,100.. There are no envelops with 25,75,150

Its the center of the bell shaped curve.

The HE or player EV is at the center of the bell shaped curve. If, for example, EV is $1/hand and you have played 6516 hands then the center is $6516.

I'm looking at a casino deck now--the T through K shows up closer to the top edge on the left hand side than all the other cards, and the A shows up closer to the top edge on the right hand side. When the dealer has an ace up, the dealer slides the hole card into the mirror device to view the...

Everywhere I play, the dealer uses a device with a mirror that only tells if he/she has a blackjack or not; it does not show the value of the hole card.