Recent content by Rob V.

Nah I think you're overdefining it. I think the word you're looking for is 'jerk'. I've always thought 'ploppy' to be needlessly offensive-sounding, but I use it. Who am I to say how someone wants to spend their money? The reason I use it is because the alternative, 'civilian', is too cliche...

Well, yeah that's the question. Well, there's the rub. You pay attention to where the cards go into the stack pre-shuffle. Then, using your trained eyes, assisted by your previous study of this and other shuffles, you follow those cards through the non-random shuffle. Your money will be well...

Computers *LINK* A big felony in Nevada and I think a misdemeanor in AC. From this website: http://www.cardcounter.com/images/SBNP_07_23_02.gif (Archive copy) I don't know the end result of this law, but computers won't help much if you're just straight counting the California game.

Re: Excellent! *LINK* I'm reminded of an old Abdul thread. Roll your bankroll into a classic car!

Marketing is everything "It is meant for ploppies, not for experts, a vain hope that we can get a few more educated gamblers playing at the tables"[1] PR Rule #1: Perhaps calling them 'ploppies' is -EV. lol Seriously, congratulations, and here's hoping that you win over a few. - Rob Vega 1...

I agree I can't imagine it will hurt the game too much. Firstly, it's not like casinos are ignorant of the concept. Snyder already gave more than the ambitious counter would ever need to get started segment and sequence tracking way back when he published his shuffle tracking theory (mid 90s?)...

Nope, you did mean TC, didn't you? My apologies. An excerpt from Brett Harris's explanation of Unbalanced True Counting at bjmath.com: ----------------------------------------------- Tc(n) = Tb(n) - U. Or to put it another way, if you start your running count at -pivot instead of zero, then it...

Look to your left on the green left nav bar. Click on "System Indices". Click on -1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 -1 . That's High-Low. You'll get the 18 most important strategies. The book you want is _Professional Blackjack_, by Stanford Wong. My first blackjack book - ah the memories. It's the primary...

"You should start your TC at -4, and that will represent what you used to think of as a count of 0. " Of course, thanks! Of course, if you really meant "TC" instead of "RC", that confuses me. This adds a surmountable readjustment to betting. I don't know yet if I can just shift my TC betting...

"Is the Hi Opt I inferior to other systems? Just wondering how it compares to other systems, especially in ease of use and EV. What do you all think? Is it worth my while to learn another system? " Hi Opt I used well is great, and you say you use it well. I don't like it, for the same reasons I...

In best posts, Adam N. Subtractum provides a much simpler method of sidecounting. Being somewhat 20th century, I can't wrap my brain around it entirely. Subtractum writes: "-21st Century Sidecounting Steps- 1. Count down Aces played 2. Add Aces remaining to Running Count and convert to True...