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Originally Posted by
redietz
I just do not get it with Alan.
He was/is a fine journalist. A fine, experienced writer. But not when it comes to gambling. It's goddamn amazing. I'm not sure what the problem is exactly, but it must fall into either (1) having lost so much money that he just can't grasp that some people have not or (2) a kind of intellectual arrogance -- if he can't do it, nobody can. Both options seem ridiculous, as certainly Alan can't be so invested in his losses that they overwhelm his judgement. And he knows he's not the expert on everything. If journalism teaches you anything, it's that.
KewlJ was witness to the whole "package" ordeal. I sent Alan copies of standings from years of "Tipsters or Gypsters?" published in Las Vegas, copies of pages from Playbook newsletter (distributed nationally on newsstands for decades) with my ads and records, copies of interviews I'd done published in regular newspapers, published op-eds I'd written regarding gambling, a copy of a paper I presented at the National Conference on Gambling and Risk-Taking, an article published in The Humanist, all stuff that couldn't be faked and could all be verified with a couple of phone calls. He wanted no part of it.
That "tracking two tables" with KewlJ was the worst of irrationality, though. I used to be able to watch six or more football games simultaneously and keep ballpark stats in my head for every game and know down-and-distance for every game without any graphics. Looking back, that's seems much more difficult than tracking two tables.
I don't
know that Alan was a fine journalist. He says he was. Interviewed Presidents and Queens and all that. Maybe others have witnessed Alan as a journalist/reporter, but I really haven't, not that I want to. I did see a couple minutes of one of his informercials and personally I am not impressed with that crap. If a company is paying you to review their product that is not real journalism. Anyway, moving on.
"The package": This occurred early in my time on this forum. I have no idea what was in this package sent to Alan,
or what it proves or doesn't prove about redietz. All I know is Alan agreed to be the arbitrator and told redietz where to send this information (package). And then the tap dancing began, like nothing I have ever seen.
"I only get to the office every few days" then
"I only get to the office once a week", then
"once every other week", then
"once a month", then
"once every 3 months" and finally,
"I don't have keys to the office", followed by
"the office is permanently closed".
As for tracking two tables,
when conditions are right to do so: This is probably my biggest regret of anything I have shared about what I do. It is something that numerous other professional level players have employed but was never mentioned much. I forget why I mentioned it, I think as an example of something that can improve results dramatically. And when challenged, I took the stupid step to explain, just how I do it, in detail, right down to where to sit. That could have come back to haunt me. It didn't, but it could have.
Opportunities for this technique are now greatly reduced, not because I mentioned it, just because of circumstances of fewer and fewer real blackjack tables, replaced by all kinds of new games with higher house edge. Post covid (and I think that just happened to be the timing) more casinos have gone to electronic versions of blackjack, including the stadium type set up, replacing the lower limit tables in the pit. Fewer BJ tables equals less opportunity for this technique.
Part of my mistake was due to that I had never before encountered anti-AP haters and deniers like Alan and Rob before. It was my nature to think they didn't understand and try to explain it, but in reality, they didn't want to understand, and nothing said would make a difference. It was like trying to tell a flat-earther, that the earth isn't flat, and they won't fall off.