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This is something I've read many times on here. So I have to wonder, is there ANYONE here who supports themselves completely and solely from their blackjack winnings? And if so, is there anyone who consistently has an annual return of, say, $100,000+? I do sometimes think it's funny that...

I see KO finally took a definitive lead over KISS, though it's still not as far ahead as I would've expected.

Someone explain N0. I hear it referred to often enough and even heard someone said you're not "legit" if you don't understand it, though I find that hard to understand when, from what I can remember, the concept (at least under that name) doesn't show up anywhere in Blackbelt or Bluebook II.

Yeah, I'd love to see a thoroughly researched article or TV program that goes through the claims one by one and uncovers the real story.

If you're just playing BS and you are ahead then it's luck . . . or "positive variance" in mathematical lingo. Eventually the trend will reverse itself but it can take a lot of hands. I actually hand-dealt 100 shoes (about 7,000 hands), played all hands according to BS, and recorded the...

Callipygian: I've heard some of that. Makes sense. I think you might be off a bit on the $100,000 that they lost, though. Seems I remember Mr. M himself saying on a Breaking Vegas episode that the money was turned into authorities and it took something like 6 months to get it back.

Who's using Mentor?

Good luck with that. Not sure how you guys do it. I'll keep trying to learn Red 7 and take the "easy" way out.

Then why don't you use it?

I remember reading once something that quoted Semyon as saying that Busting Vegas contains the "essence" of his experiences. What the f--k that means, I have no idea. My guess is that the frame of BV is built on real facts but that Mezrich really took the story and ran with it. Has anyone...

From the sims that have been run and whatnot, the honest answer is that it doesn't really matter. In a shootout between KO, KISS and Red 7, Red 7 actually came out on top by hundredths of a percent I believe, but you will achieve virtually identical results with either of the three. So the...

Does anyone know if Bringing Down the House is supposed to be a more reliable and accurate account of real events than Busting Vegas? I'm reading BV right now and it seems to be more fictionalized and sensational but I could be wrong.

Very surprised to see more votes for KISS than KO since KO is typically treated as THE unbalanced counting system.

Tons of camo discussion in both Blackbelt and Bluebook. I think you're going to be really impressed with Blackbelt; it's full of all kinds of advanced information. It was designed to be a complete course on the art and science of advantage play and it is in fact exactly that. I had read...

I know some of the casinos in the Minneapolis, MN area are 18+ and I also known of one in Oklahoma. Not sure beyond that.