Recent content by Mikeaber

Not East Coast.... But if you are in Vegas, go to Binion's on Fremont. 4-Whores now owns Binion's and they are bringing in "cowgirls" as dealers on BJ and BigWheel. Most of them are dealing 6D at the southeast corner of the casino...the entrance that is a glassed in corner. These gals are...

4-Deck: Plaza on Fremont (LV) for a long time, had substituted 4-deck (hand shuffled, shoe, face up) for the old 2-deck games. This last week though, I saw DD back in action there. I did not check all the tables there...they may still have some 4D. I didn't play there though (Plaza) and...

One of you math gurus: What is the "variance" in Blackjack. Assume that you are going to play 1000 hands, flat bet and use perfect Basic Strategy on a six deck game. I was looking for a chart and didn't find one. In Blackjack Attack I saw a formula for Standard Deviation stating that it is...

That one went over my head at first too AM!

Right "Right" Meaning I agree with you Cardcounter. The table is set up to provide the odds on losing "X" hands in a row starting with the next hand. I stated the "read" incorrectly, though it is hard not to read it the way I stated when you are just using BS and you've lost 3 in a row...

For what it's worth AND be sure and read Cardcounter's reply below this one. My last statement on the "reading" of the table is not correct. Here are the numbers I've used to roughly figure out the odds on consecutive hands. This is an OLD table I picked up somewhere and haven't checked it...

Without going into the complications of identification, I think what we need is a anti-spam-bot. One that will recognize SPAM, identify the sender and completely destroy the operating system on the machine originating the spam and go on to turn the advertised website into a binary mush!:flame:

Could someone explain to me the motivation behind these obscene or otherwise offensive spam attempts. I simply cannot imagine that they actually result in "customers" or in any other way produce anything beneficial. Now, if that motivation is for its potential to aggravate, I might could...

Wow! Who wouldda thunk it! Well, not quite as "grown-up" as the Tournament site. In membership the Tournament site has over 8,000. But there are double the number of threads here and there are more posts here. And, this site has far more folks logged in at one time than the Tournament...

I agree with most everything you posted Aslan except for the quote above. I do NOT believe that "larger and larger numbers" will learn how to beat BJ. It would take too much effort. Yet, I still think the game will continue to degrade simply because the casinos will have what amounts to a...

Maybe calling it a lack of intelligence is extreme...no doubt. I think with the guy I was talking about, it is more a situation in which he just wants to leave his responsibility behind and make non-educated decisions. He's certainly not "stupid" when it comes to most other activities we have...

Recreational Players There is a strange mentality there that doesn't speak well to the intelligence of the Human Race I fear. First off, most of this category (the 99% LVBear makes reference to) are very often, not frequent players at casinos. They may go to the local casino on a whim or...

I have the Dancer "Video Poker for Winners" simulation. It's good, but you can probably do just as well with the WinPoker simulation software and not spend as much as for VPW. I have not used the strategy cards nor read the VP books.

Poor poster who originally asked the question..... He's not counting and this turned into quite a discussion concerning what to do when the deck was rich or poor (ie card counting). This is a Basic Strategy question. There are rules of thumb that I do not put a lot of importance to...

Good interview. Thanks Ken and LVB for taking the time to put it together. I used to be very active on LVA and have to say that when I was learning the game, LVBear was one of the very few on the forum to whom I paid attention. WELCOME to the forum!