What can I say? You're both right. You are both right, that is you both came to the right conclusions judging by our posts. The truth is that none of us actually knows each other. Both Scott and I are completely different people in real life from the characters we sound like in our posts. I mean if we knew each other in person, arguments like this one would never ever come up. But that is the nature of messageboards. Not everything gets said and the information is never complete. But seriously here folks lets not kid ourselves. I responded to this post:
Let's analyse it. He wants to know what other AP methods are used? He says he knows about shuffle tracking, and ace location. He thinks Bringing Down the House was an excellent book. So far it sounds like he just wants blackjack advise. But when he says he's noticed alotta people saying straight counting is lame what esle are you guys doing, it sounds like he is directly asking me what supercoolmancool are you doing? How can I increase my edge? Tell me the secrets that nobody else will. It seems like he is addressing me personally. Well I think that he pretty much knows all the ways there are to beat blackjack. There are other ways but they all fall in those catagories. I think the best money making opportunites are not found in books. I advise him to use his own brain, think for himself, and look elswhere. Gotta keep your head on a swivel. Don't take advantage of little kids and the elderly, or inividual people. But if you take that creative advantage play mentality and look beyond the casinos, then I think that is a good use of energy. You can find larger edges outside of casinos. That's where the real money is being made. Kind of like Arnod Snyder. He is not a professional gambler but a professional writer. He is still an advantage player. He writes one book and make money from it for the rest of his life with no additional work. He doesn't have to keep doing something and he still gets paid. On a side note I emailed him asking for some advice and he gave me really really bad advice. I'm not quite sure if he was purposely feeding me miss-information or if he really thought what he said was true, but I have always been suspicous of the guy after reading about how hard he makes shuffle tracking out to be in his Blackbelt in Blackjack. But I mean I still advise trying to beat the casinos. That's what I intend to do myself, but I do other stuff too.
Let's analyse it. He wants to know what other AP methods are used? He says he knows about shuffle tracking, and ace location. He thinks Bringing Down the House was an excellent book. So far it sounds like he just wants blackjack advise. But when he says he's noticed alotta people saying straight counting is lame what esle are you guys doing, it sounds like he is directly asking me what supercoolmancool are you doing? How can I increase my edge? Tell me the secrets that nobody else will. It seems like he is addressing me personally. Well I think that he pretty much knows all the ways there are to beat blackjack. There are other ways but they all fall in those catagories. I think the best money making opportunites are not found in books. I advise him to use his own brain, think for himself, and look elswhere. Gotta keep your head on a swivel. Don't take advantage of little kids and the elderly, or inividual people. But if you take that creative advantage play mentality and look beyond the casinos, then I think that is a good use of energy. You can find larger edges outside of casinos. That's where the real money is being made. Kind of like Arnod Snyder. He is not a professional gambler but a professional writer. He is still an advantage player. He writes one book and make money from it for the rest of his life with no additional work. He doesn't have to keep doing something and he still gets paid. On a side note I emailed him asking for some advice and he gave me really really bad advice. I'm not quite sure if he was purposely feeding me miss-information or if he really thought what he said was true, but I have always been suspicous of the guy after reading about how hard he makes shuffle tracking out to be in his Blackbelt in Blackjack. But I mean I still advise trying to beat the casinos. That's what I intend to do myself, but I do other stuff too.
