Kevin Blackwood Chat Guest on 7-9-09!

#1
Our Chat Guest will be none other than the famed author and BJ Great, the one and only....Kevin Blackwood of "The Counter" fame.

Kevin spent many years as a BJ Pro winning over a million dollars and having a plethora of experiences in the BJ world of the AP.

Kevin is a very down to Earth BJ Celeb and this will prove to be a very memorable chat with one of the Greats.

Be there or be square!:grin:

CP
 

sagefr0g

Well-Known Member
#2
another chat as well, scheduled for 1pm Sat. 25 July

creeping panther said:
Our Chat Guest will be none other than the famed author and BJ Great, the one and only....Kevin Blackwood of "The Counter" fame.

Kevin spent many years as a BJ Pro winning over a million dollars and having a plethora of experiences in the BJ world of the AP.

Kevin is a very down to Earth BJ Celeb and this will prove to be a very memorable chat with one of the Greats.

Be there or be square!:grin:


CP
there you go again Stealthy Won!
thank you for helping give us the opportunity to chat with Kevin.

i'd like to just, jump in here and announce that Dr. Dylan Evans, lecturer in behavioral sciences School of Medicine, University College Cork from Ireland shall be our chat guest on Saturday 25 July at 1:00pm.

Dylan is interested in gambling as it relates to uncertainty and the nature of advantage players 'risk intelligence'.
Dylan has interviewed advantage players and was a speaker at the 14th International Conference on Gaming and Risk-Taking at Lake Tahoe.
Dylan has interviewed at least one well known author and advantage player that is a member of our community website.

You can learn a bit about him on the following links:
http://www.dylan.org.uk/
https://twitter.com/evansd66
 
#3
creeping panther said:
Our Chat Guest will be none other than the famed author and BJ Great, the one and only....Kevin Blackwood of "The Counter" fame.

Kevin spent many years as a BJ Pro winning over a million dollars and having a plethora of experiences in the BJ world of the AP.

Kevin is a very down to Earth BJ Celeb and this will prove to be a very memorable chat with one of the Greats.

Be there or be square!:grin:

CP
Sounds exciting. What time would this be in which time zone?
 

sagefr0g

Well-Known Member
#7
Canceler said:
Glad to see I'm not the only one wondering about that. :)

I suppose using GMT for this sort of thing would confuse people even more, though. :confused:
lol, i'm confuse too.:confused::whip:
shouldn't we just go by this? (Dead link: http://www.blackjackinfo.com/bb/announcement.php?f=4)
Chat Schedule: Regular chats, Guests, and new Newbie BJ Tutor session
Join us in the BlackjackInfo chat room for these scheduled chats:

Mondays at 7 PM EST: General Chat
Tuesdays at 10 PM EST: BJ Newbie Free Chat Tutoring
Thursdays at 9 PM EST: General Chat

Currently Scheduled Chat Guests:
Thursday July 9th at 9 PM EST: Our guest will be professional blackjack player and author Kevin Blackwood. As a pro, Blackwood won more than a million dollars at the tables. He has authored several books on the game. As one of the nicest guys in the blackjack world, we look forward to his visit.

Special Chat time: Saturday July 25th at 1 PM EST: Our guest is Dr. Dylan Evans, lecturer in behavioral sciences School of Medicine, University College Cork from Ireland. Dr Evans spoke at the 14th International Conference on Gaming and Risk-Taking at Lake Tahoe, where his topic was the nature of advantage players' "risk intelligence". More information available at his site: http://www.dylan.org.uk/
 

Canceler

Well-Known Member
#8
Nothing is simple these days...

sagefr0g said:
shouldn't we just go by this? (Dead link: http://www.blackjackinfo.com/bb/announcement.php?f=4)
We could. Are we going to pretend it's not Daylight Savings Time? :p
 

iCountNTrack

Well-Known Member
#9
Seriously

Guys what is the big drama all about? :) When i say 9 pm EST, it should not be so hard to figure out that i meant current 9 pm East Coast. 9 pm EDT is more correct, but does it really matter if you are living anywhere in North America, the time difference is always the same.
 

daddybo

Well-Known Member
#11
z or utc

iCountNTrack said:
Guys what is the big drama all about? :) When i say 9 pm EST, it should not be so hard to figure out that i meant current 9 pm East Coast. 9 pm EDT is more correct, but does it really matter if you are living anywhere in North America, the time difference is always the same.
It's a big deal to convert the time when you half way around the world.


How about Universal Coordinated Time (UTC or ZULU) It takes care of all the time zone differences. Everyone's on the same page. :)

09:00 P.M. EDT = 01:00 Z

http://hurricanes.noaa.gov/zulu-utc.html (Archive copy)
 
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KenSmith

Administrator
Staff member
#13
It may be boredom or pickiness, but you do have a point. I'll update the announcement to simply say "Eastern" for the times, and add UTC as well.
 

iCountNTrack

Well-Known Member
#14
daddybo said:
It's a big deal to convert the time when you half way around the world.


How about Universal Coordinated Time (UTC or ZULU) It takes care of all the time zone differences. Everyone's on the same page. :)

09:00 P.M. EDT = 01:00 Z

http://hurricanes.noaa.gov/zulu-utc.html (Archive copy)
If you can't figure out how to convert time zones, you should not be playing AP blackjack in the first place.

shadroch said:
Last I checked, Arizona, along with certain counties in Indiana and Maine were still considered North America.
What i meant is that all the states in NA change their time at the same time from S to D, so the time difference between Pacific and Easter is always 3. But like the sarcasm anyway :).

I am locking the thread, if you need to discuss time zones or how to build a time machin. Please pm me.
 

KenSmith

Administrator
Staff member
#15
Someone please take a look at the announcement now, and make sure I didn't bungle the process. And, yes, this means that the announcements will need revision when Daylight Savings time ends.
 

KenSmith

Administrator
Staff member
#17
I think our chats are best left unpublished. In my opinion, the chats will be a more useful feature if participants know their comments won't be permanently archived and searchable by Google.

Opinions?
 

iCountNTrack

Well-Known Member
#19
KenSmith said:
I think our chats are best left unpublished. In my opinion, the chats will be a more useful feature if participants know their comments won't be permanently archived and searchable by Google.

Opinions?
One idea is to have the transcripts available for 3 days after the scheduled chat date, but then deleted after that.
 
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