Recent content by Josh Axelrad

you can help he does not want to win at gambling. he does not play for money. teaching him that winning is possible is irrelevant and confusing to him. if you care about this person get him to a meeting today. http://www.gamblersanonymous.org/ga/index.php the next step beyond...

units Ditto.

nomination go ahead and nominate myself for outing in print a damn proper game in the up without first 100 pct verifying that said game had been slain. though it must have been.

This is wonderful - thanks for posting !

172s etc muppet, to your general question concerning heat and it mattering there are multiple valid answers. some smart, successful players prefer avoiding heat as much as possible. my personal view is that maximizing EV in the short to medium run is what matters most of all, and that any...

Your knack for observing and contemplating your own thought processes may account in part for your success. Analyzing one's own mental game is a part of mental game. Even when you disappoint yourself, your ability to be disappointed for reasons like this is a noble, auspicious trait. IMHO...

Desired sabbatical depends on your overall heat situation and goals, but if the incident was both unremarkable and anonymous, I wouldn't worry much. Be courteous, give them a few months if you can spare that. By "them" I mean the shifts where you had face time with heat. (So if the previous...

Big time. This doesn't stink, exactly -- he really does seem to give money away -- but neither does it add up. His new partner Dr. Schulze is blatantly interested in self-promotion. RobinHood himself is hard to figger. What gives? Why alert the media? Why all this noise about how hard it is to...

thx rjt i was responding to the guy's tone and ending dialog with him because of it, rather than speaking unironically. -josh

i sincerely do not know what you are talking about. which must mean you're right. in any case you use bold font so you win. thanks, josh

red 7 it's awesome that you saw this & were thinking about it. red 7 requires no true count conversion, right? that simplifies matters. if you're sure about what you saw & where everything went, just start with a running +9 in this case. you can bet as you normally would -- again, if you're...

yo wisdom does tell us to cut that 1 deck out of play. i agree. i agree that we only wish to play the 3 decks (exactly 3 decks if possible or minus a buffer if necessary; a buffer is a fine idea). i disagree about your other uses of this playzone thingy. we're card counters...

truth! please explain the difference between adding a half deck in the example i gave and the (identical, if i understand the author correctly) formula here:

points out of play it would depend on the count of the slug. do you know the count of the slug? are you sure about it? are you really sure? do you really know exactly what the dealer grabbed? let's say you are sure, and that you saw 26 cards with a count of +10, and that those 26 cards...

$0.02 i might not know what you mean by unit. i only have experience with kelly-based units where 1 unit equals your bet per 0.5% advantage. if that's the kind of unit we're thinking of, you obviously get the most money betting $50 units but with the teeniest practicable base bet. $25 base...