Big Casino Wins and Jackpots

[FABismonte]

Hi Alan:

Very nice. I think I know that machine at Ceasars. Did you take all that money in a check?

FAB

[Alan Mendelson]

FAB I took it as cash. When you take a check from Caesars they temporarily close your credit line. I didn't want to go thru the hassle of reopening the credit line on a subsequent visit. On the way home I put the cash thru an ATM which is always entertaining -- 40 bills at a time. I have a routine for this with packs pre-counted in separate pockets.

[dannyj]

Got Royal #4 last night.

[Chimp]

Nice dannyj

[Alan Mendelson]

How wonderful is that-- holding just one card. I'm sure you were hoping just for a paying pair!

[singahkillah]

I've read Shackelford on video poker plays he has so called worked. Much to thin of an edge for an AP. Stuff like 100.24%. Real video poker AP's don't play anything close to that thin of an edge. 2% is about as thin as most real AP's will go. Shackelford has a weakness there. From his own mouth he is not very good at poker. But he has excellent sports betting plays. Although one bet has failed him these last several years-no safety in the Super Bowl.

[jbjb]

How wonderful is that-- holding just one card. I'm sure you were hoping just for a paying pair!

My last two royals have come holding just one card. The first on a single line game and the second on ten play.

[Alan Mendelson]

You nailed it singahkillah -- the edge in video poker is so small that it's almost insignificant. So is the difference between 8/5 bonus and 7/5 bonus. Here's where Singer is right: you need the big wins to be a winner and the grind won't work.

[jbjb]

.. you need the big wins to be a winner and the grind won't work.

Sure, but if you keep coming back over and over again, your just grinding anyway.

[redietz]

I've read Shackelford on video poker plays he has so called worked. Much to thin of an edge for an AP. Stuff like 100.24%. Real video poker AP's don't play anything close to that thin of an edge. 2% is about as thin as most real AP's will go. Shackelford has a weakness there. From his own mouth he is not very good at poker. But he has excellent sports betting plays. Although one bet has failed him these last several years-no safety in the Super Bowl.

Killah, just one question. With all due respect, do you have any blessed idea what you're talking about?

[Rob.Singer]

Red, that's mickeycrimm, a well-known phony story-teller, loser in gambling, binge-drinking alcoholic, and all-around lowlife with no dental plan.

So the likely answer is, yes....for his breed.

[OneHitWonder]

I've read Shackelford on video poker plays he has so called worked. Much to thin of an edge for an AP. Stuff like 100.24%. Real video poker AP's don't play anything close to that thin of an edge. 2% is about as thin as most real AP's will go. Shackelford has a weakness there. From his own mouth he is not very good at poker. But he has excellent sports betting plays. Although one bet has failed him these last several years-no safety in the Super Bowl.

Too busy making 20 million dollars off his site, that he sold the "cash cow" for a measly 2.35 million before it dies off completely. Now, he wants to get on the tv show "Survivor". Begs for a chance to get on the show at the end of his audition video. You couldn't make this stuff up. Gamblers are funny people.

[RS__]

singahkillah is absolutely right. Most APs won't go after a tiny edge like that. Even 2% is pretty small, but slightly playable. Rob's description of mickeycrimm is similar to how many people would describe Rob. Oh, the irony!

[Rob.Singer]

RS__ again, the only thing significant about you is the use of those initials as you cower behind your computer. Otherwise, your depiction of what you believe an "AP" is further demonstrates how much of an amateur you are.

Why don't you tell us how much you admire your hero and idol, Shack, for having begged for money to feed his family?

That would be fun!

[Alan Mendelson]

I love this. APs talking about edges greater than 2%. Just ask them where they get it?

[jbjb]

I love this. APs talking about edges greater than 2%. Just ask them where they get it?

You really think they'll tell you in an open forum? Hell, why not let me expose all my sloppy dealers across the country too.

[Alan Mendelson]

No, I don't think they'll talk about it in an open forum because that's too easy to debunk.

I've spent a lot of time talking to "advantage players" about their advantage and not one of them has an "advantage" that beats the edge that luck can give you.

Sure you can scour the Strip for abandoned multipliers, and you can hunt for slot jackpots that are close to the guaranteed hit level. And you can play the shifts of sloppy dealers who flash hole cards. But is that really an "advantage play" or is that just getting lucky in finding someone else's errors such as running short of money and leaving a multiplier or a jackpot about to be hit? Or is that getting lucky with a sloppy dealer?

To me an "advantage player" is someone who uses a particular skill to win such as a card counter in BJ, or someone who knows how to handicap horses or picking teams in games because he has studied them. Yes, I would also call dice influencing an advantage play IF IF IF someone really had the ability to influence dice with some consistency.

[jbjb]

...Sure you can scour the Strip for abandoned multipliers, and you can hunt for slot jackpots that are close to the guaranteed hit level. And you can play the shifts of sloppy dealers who flash hole cards. But is that really an "advantage play" or is that just getting lucky in finding someone else's errors such as running short of money and leaving a multiplier or a jackpot about to be hit? Or is that getting lucky with a sloppy dealer?

To me an "advantage player" is someone who uses a particular skill to win such as a card counter in BJ, or someone who knows how to handicap horses or picking teams in games because he has studied them. Yes, I would also call dice influencing an advantage play IF IF IF someone really had the ability to influence dice with some consistency.

Yes, they are all advantage plays. The skill is knowing what to do with the info. The advantage is the monetary percentage you're expected to make. I guess according to you, Elliott Jacobson should rename his site "LuckHeat.net"

[Rob.Singer]

It is fact that, when referring to players, advantage play is nothing more or nothing less than a self-confidence-building peculiar state of mind. If you want to talk about particular ADVANTAGE PLAYS; barring blatant errors by the casinos, advantage plays are precisely what is in the hands of every casino for every game that they offer.

Anyone can make up a >2% "advantage play" in order to justify their state of mind. And no one is "expected to make" anything when they visit a casino even if they've calculated out a theoretical 15% "edge". Casinos don't give away money to any group of players or any one player, and that's what you're saying they do.

AP's are the kings of phantom bucks and gambling addiction. Why else does anyone think these people say they go to casinos so often and tell such tales under anonymous names.

[singahkillah]

Yes, they are all advantage plays. The skill is knowing what to do with the info. The advantage is the monetary percentage you're expected to make. I guess according to you, Elliott Jacobson should rename his site "LuckHeat.net"

It's a hard thing to explain. Why do I excel in the gambling world where others fail? There are multiple reasons. I think my exceptional math on the game is a prerequisite. I think my discipline in the game is exceptional. But the one main reason is I never intended to fail. It was going to work for me, period. No place left to go. I either succeed in gambling or I'm done in life. Another great reason is I was always willing to go wherever it took to succeed. There are not many like me. I'm the real true in the gambling world. Not the cheap imitation.

Wherever we are going from here we don't really know. That's the heart of a true professional gambler. A professional gambler that has no other investments in life. Just his ability to gamble for a profit. A true professional gambler goes on heart and heart alone. A true professional gambler who has lived any extent on this planet is a man that doesn't trust anyone but himself. That true individual, if he has any age on him, always has a stash somewhere.

The truth about us true professional gamblers is we don't give a rats ass what comes in the future. We are willing to deal with it on our own terms.