Hey you know what, I would relax everybody. Though I will agree this article doesn't do anything to help the state of affairs for AP's, I think the damage it does is not quite what some are thinking. Lets get a few things straight here. Every so often there are news articles or TV shows depicting AP's and things dealing with them. Good or bad its been that way for years. This website's forum and the info thats available here could quite have possibly educated many a casino personnel far more than a rogue article on some part time counters. Hell, if this forum has been good enough to educate newbies into competent player status, and the consensus paranoia is that of what is said here is monitered by the powers that be, then this is like an ongoing bulletin board for how to identify and thwart counters to the casino. I don't think that is fully the case, nor do I think a newspaper article will change the game as we know it.
Play the game long enough and you will realize it is cyclic. There are ups and downs in game conditions all the time. Sometimes it may be due to game glamourization, or unwanted publicity. Other times it may be due to the building of new competitive venues, labor disputes and vast employee turnover, economic crunches in general. These are just a few things that can change the way a game is set up. More times than not it is not permanent, its just how things are.
Hey I was one of the few who said I was not looking foward to this movie coming out when it was dicussed here a few months back. But you know what, it is, so what? We deal with it. Its part of the cycle of good and bad. I would be willing to bet there are few to none of the people posting on this board who didn't learn how to count cards from some form of public accessed info. Whether it be books or internet, its all public knowledge. So don't for a second believe that you know more than those that you are trying to fool. Any secrets of the game will stay that way until you figure them out yourselves, or are lucky enough to find someone who will let you in on them.
In the meantime for one reason or another there will be people doing newspaper articles, documantaries, movies, and even websites like what we have here. Its not great for business, but its part of it all the same. So the next time you are spouting a message about how the bad penetration is ruining the game, or even worse proclaim how good the game is by giving specifics, just know maybe it is you that has just changed the game as well.
I'm not sure if this article will hurt these guys too much, it might, I doubt it knowing a little bit about them. But I'm very sure its not going to effect you Brutus out in AZ, or most others in different areas. It might effect you AM, in your backyard casino, but then again, you've been raving about your conditions over there for as long as you've been on this site, if it hasn't happened yet maybe it won't now. Even if it does, it wont be forever. This is a long term game, a few knuckleheads can't hurt it whether it be playing a hand wrong that hurts you, or spouting off to a reporter.
