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  1. #21
    Originally Posted by regnis View Post
    Originally Posted by coach belly View Post
    Originally Posted by regnis View Post
    Why do I feel no animosity towards others here, even those that I may not like or that I disagree with?
    When Alan talks about DI, and claims to have known of players or seen players that could influence the dice, he gets absolutely skewered by all the usual suspects.

    His stories are met with ridicule, he's mercilessly attacked from every angle.

    On the otherhand, you have stated many times that you once possessed DI skill, played craps for many years with great success, and not one of them ever challenged you.

    Your stories are met with polite silence.

    These guys howl with certainty that DI is quackery and not possible, but they never howl at you, yet you're the only one here that's ever claimed he could do it, and has done it.

    Don't you find it strange, that you're given a pass and treated with respect, making the same points that causes Alan to get attacked?

    If you got treated the same way Alan's been treated, just over the DI stuff alone, then perhaps you'd feel some animosity.

    What do you think?
    Coach-you may be on to something. Although V did give me a little heat on DI and probably a few others. But let's say he gave me a lot of heat. Ok--must I now hate him and direct venomous attacks at him. Or just disagree and move on. That is kind of the point I was making. Why should I get to the point that I, who have chosen to remain anonymous here, and V, or anyone else, should actually have such ill will when we will never meet or, in the unlikely event that we do meet, even know that we are meeting. And despite the heat I kind of dig V on this forum.

    Also, I did drop the subject whereas Alan may continue to force the issue at times.

    Speaking of which, I hope he is OK and just not participating here.
    I also hope he is OK and is getting the help he needs with his gambling addiction. Not because it would make good fodder for us, but because his family deserves him to be his best for them.

  2. #22
    Originally Posted by regnis View Post
    must I now hate him and direct venomous attacks at him. Or just disagree and move on.
    If you were repeatedly called dishonest, degenerate & retarded, when anything you wrote about, every question you asked would be met with ridicule that referenced and scoffed at your DI claims, would it be simple to ignore all that and simply move on?...or would you feel animosity?

  3. #23
    "If you were repeatedly called dishonest, degenerate & retarded".

    So you know my wife's family.


    Honestly Coach--if it became that bad I would just leave as it's not worth getting upset about. Alan has taken a terrible beating here, but partly it is his own fault.

  4. #24
    You see or hear of this sort of behavior in the casinos all the time. A bunch of timid players at a table who find all manner of excuse for something wrong that a dealer does in a hand, that costs them a bit of money. Oh, but they want to be allowed back (to try to get their money back).

    This asking of reasons for the hatred of gamblers toward one other doesn't really get at the source of the problem. The same hatred exists at the WoV, only in thinly veiled form. All manner of workaround for that there. You can't legislate goodwill.

    Of course, Alan will always be Alan, more so likely than most. Of course, Alan (and likely his son, too) will always be gambling addicts. The chance of recovery is 1 in 400. It's got to be zero for families. His addiction, and, likely, his son's, will outlive them.

    It's also phony and insincere to wish him well after encouraging and condoning it for so long. Let alone to wish him well after so many vicious words, names, and other inhumanity. The psychological abuse is done as well. So many cowards here. Crackpots, cowards and cunts.
    78255585899=317*13723*17989=(310+7)*[(13730-7)*(100*100+7979+10)]-->LOVE avatar@137_371_179_791, or 137_371_17[3^2]_7[3^2]1, 1=V-->Ace, low. 78255585899-->99858555287=(99858555288-1)=[-1+(72*2227)*(722777-100000)]={-1+(72*2227)*[(2000+700777+20000)-100000]}-->1_722_227_277_772_1. 7×8×2×5×5×5×8×5×8×9×9=362880000=(1000000000-6√97020000-100000)-->169_721. (7/8×2/5×5/5×8/5×8/9×9)={[(-.1+.9)]^2×(6+1)}-->1961=√4*2.24; (1/7×8/2×5/5×5/8×5/8×9/9)={1/[7×(-.2+1)^2]}-->1721=[(10*10/4)/(√4+110)].

  5. #25
    Originally Posted by Rob.Singer View Post
    It's simple regnis. You only need to look as far as the totally insane claims made by the WoV and anti-wizard fanatic reject kew for clarity. Kew came here expecting everybody and anybody to accept his easily debunked claims, his weird and confused alternate lifestyle, and his completely bankrupt so-called "mommy dearest and baby bro" home life in mommy's home (THE #1 reason he stays anonymous) but because we are unlike the soft-headed phonies over on WoV and we're smart enuf to know much better, he spews lies, more lies, and hate. Just like the whining democrats, you can say anything you like and it MUST be believed if you're an AP, but you will be attacked and insulted/lied about should you even question their outrageous and silly claims.

    However....in respect for total disclosure.......I recently had a DNA test to define my ancestry. It stated that I was 1/1024th AP! So, from now on I'm gonna identify myself as one of the AP crowd, although I'm not anonymous, which sort of goes against the grain.

    I expect a lot of praise and welcome from the load of imported ap's here, even though I have more formal math education and related high level work experience that every single one of them.

    Maybe I should take up a collection from them, so I could be a loser like Mike!
    Rob-with you I suspect you really aren't as angry as you appear. I suspect you are having fun with people as you know you can really stir them up. I could be wrong, but that is the impression that I get.

  6. #26
    Originally Posted by regnis View Post
    Honestly Coach--if it became that bad I would just leave as it's not worth getting upset about.
    Understood, but don't you think you'd leave with animosity?

    That's what you originally asked...why don't you have any animosity towards the regulars.

    My point is that it's because almost all of the regulars avoid insulting you.

    If anybody else claimed to be a successful DI, they would shit all over him and keep piling on...I'm talking about the "math guys", not serial ballbusters like Singer or V.

  7. #27
    So I'm afraid to ask. Why didn't they crucify me? Is it because I don't fan the flames and just let people express their opinion? I don't know. If it is just my remarkably good looks how would anyone actually know?

  8. #28
    Originally Posted by regnis View Post
    Originally Posted by Rob.Singer View Post
    It's simple regnis. You only need to look as far as the totally insane claims made by the WoV and anti-wizard fanatic reject kew for clarity. Kew came here expecting everybody and anybody to accept his easily debunked claims, his weird and confused alternate lifestyle, and his completely bankrupt so-called "mommy dearest and baby bro" home life in mommy's home (THE #1 reason he stays anonymous) but because we are unlike the soft-headed phonies over on WoV and we're smart enuf to know much better, he spews lies, more lies, and hate. Just like the whining democrats, you can say anything you like and it MUST be believed if you're an AP, but you will be attacked and insulted/lied about should you even question their outrageous and silly claims.

    However....in respect for total disclosure.......I recently had a DNA test to define my ancestry. It stated that I was 1/1024th AP! So, from now on I'm gonna identify myself as one of the AP crowd, although I'm not anonymous, which sort of goes against the grain.

    I expect a lot of praise and welcome from the load of imported ap's here, even though I have more formal math education and related high level work experience that every single one of them.

    Maybe I should take up a collection from them, so I could be a loser like Mike!
    Rob-with you I suspect you really aren't as angry as you appear. I suspect you are having fun with people as you know you can really stir them up. I could be wrong, but that is the impression that I get.
    This stuff's entertainment for me regnis, when I have time. I have a special knack for riling up AP's. They make the claim/I serve up the shame.

    I chatted with Alan tonight. He found something better to do than argue with the moronic haters here: he's on a craps run at the Suncoast. Winning thousands. And right about now he's in the midst of figuring out if this is also his "best EV day of the year" or not.

  9. #29
    But unlike us, Alan will, and I mean he WILL, lose it all back!

    As for hate. I don't hate anyone here. But carry on with your losing systems...

    P.S. DI is a fraud. Regnis had nothing but short term variance.

  10. #30
    Originally Posted by MisterV View Post
    The group that paid the wiz over two million didn't pay that for WoV, they paid it for WoO.
    Please post the facts and proof of that amount of over two-million dollars being paid to Mike S. for his gambling forum. After all, you're a lawyer with resources. Just because you read it somewhere on the internet don't make it a fact. Connections on the internet will print and post anything they hear anonymously for personal or hidden agender. New York Times, CNN ring a bell?

    While you’re gathering the facts make sure to confirm how the actual payments are being made regardless of the amount they paid. We could read all about the facts of multibillion-dollar corporate deals all the time. Yet, a measly 2-million-dollar deal is kept more secret than the TRUMP dossier.

    This deal is no different than all the alleged AP claims of riches. Mike S. is a lying gambling fool which proved the math still needs luck to balance out. He sold his forum and name to the devil. Promoting illegal banking transferring of funds to offshore gaming sites from the USA. This is the type of gambling fool that would stick a dagger in your neck if he had no choice. Isn’t this the same guy that worked for casinos while desperate?

    All you AP’s from there don’t care one bit either. Instead of calling him out you all keep sucking his cock like he’s the king of gambling success keeping his phony myth alive.

    Oh yea, regardless any amount of money a gambling fool is given it will eventually disappear. He already writes about gambling experiences while traveling. If it’s a payment plan over time, he gets to last that much longer. Hope his wife and family are smart enough to capitalize and recover something the fool is given.
    Last edited by blackhole; 10-17-2018 at 03:51 AM.

  11. #31
    Alan brought on his own problems here. He is essentially one of the troll AP haters on the forum and not only that, he is one of the originals. He has continuously bashed AP's. He's allied with Argentino, the ultimate AP basher, and is continually answering questions directed at Argentino. What goes around comes around. When you continually and gratuitously bash people don't be surprised if it blows back on you.
    "More importantly, mickey thought 8-4 was two games over .500. Argued about it. C'mon, man. Nothing can top that for math expertise. If GWAE ever has you on again, you can be sure I'll be calling in with that gem.'Nuff said." REDIETZ

  12. #32
    I need to find out why I'm being called an AP hater and an AP basher.

    Would someone please list ten examples of my alleged AP bashing or hating?

    Wait, ten is too many. How about 8 examples?

    Hold it, I want to be reasonable. Let's just say 6 examples please?

    Oops. Six might be too many. Give me three. Just three examples where I have bashed and shown hatred towards APs.

    And please be sure that these are true examples of hatred and bashing and not merely questioning or disagreeing with certain claims.

    Thank you.

  13. #33
    Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post
    I need to find out why I'm being called an AP hater and an AP basher.

    Would someone please list ten examples of my alleged AP bashing or hating?

    Wait, ten is too many. How about 8 examples?

    Hold it, I want to be reasonable. Let's just say 6 examples please?

    Oops. Six might be too many. Give me three. Just three examples where I have bashed and shown hatred towards APs.

    And please be sure that these are true examples of hatred and bashing and not merely questioning or disagreeing with certain claims.

    Thank you.
    Hundreds, possibly thousands, of examples can be found. I have better things to do than dig them up. Did your craps run finally come to and end?
    "More importantly, mickey thought 8-4 was two games over .500. Argued about it. C'mon, man. Nothing can top that for math expertise. If GWAE ever has you on again, you can be sure I'll be calling in with that gem.'Nuff said." REDIETZ

  14. #34
    Originally Posted by blackhole View Post
    Originally Posted by MisterV View Post
    The group that paid the wiz over two million didn't pay that for WoV, they paid it for WoO.
    Please post the facts and proof of that amount of over two-million dollars being paid to Mike S. for his gambling forum. After all, you're a lawyer with resources. Just because you read it somewhere on the internet don't make it a fact. Connections on the internet will print and post anything they hear anonymously for personal or hidden agender. New York Times, CNN ring a bell?

    While you’re gathering the facts make sure to confirm how the actual payments are being made regardless of the amount they paid. We could read all about the facts of multibillion-dollar corporate deals all the time. Yet, a measly 2-million-dollar deal is kept more secret than the TRUMP dossier.

    This deal is no different than all the alleged AP claims of riches. Mike S. is a lying gambling fool which proved the math still needs luck to balance out. He sold his forum and name to the devil. Promoting illegal banking transferring of funds to offshore gaming sites from the USA. This is the type of gambling fool that would stick a dagger in your neck if he had no choice. Isn’t this the same guy that worked for casinos while desperate?

    All you AP’s from there don’t care one bit either. Instead of calling him out you all keep sucking his cock like he’s the king of gambling success keeping his phony myth alive.

    Oh yea, regardless any amount of money a gambling fool is given it will eventually disappear. He already writes about gambling experiences while traveling. If it’s a payment plan over time, he gets to last that much longer. Hope his wife and family are smart enough to capitalize and recover something the fool is given.
    Please post up facts and proof that your claims to being a VIP high roller are true.
    "More importantly, mickey thought 8-4 was two games over .500. Argued about it. C'mon, man. Nothing can top that for math expertise. If GWAE ever has you on again, you can be sure I'll be calling in with that gem.'Nuff said." REDIETZ

  15. #35
    Originally Posted by blackhole View Post
    Please post the facts and proof of that amount of over two-million dollars being paid to Mike S. for his gambling forum.
    Try this:

    http://www.gambling911.com/online-ca...on-121614.html

    And this:

    https://calvinayre.com/2014/09/19/bu...-2-35-million/
    What, Me Worry?

  16. #36
    Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
    Originally Posted by blackhole View Post
    Originally Posted by MisterV View Post
    The group that paid the wiz over two million didn't pay that for WoV, they paid it for WoO.
    Please post the facts and proof of that amount of over two-million dollars being paid to Mike S. for his gambling forum. After all, you're a lawyer with resources. Just because you read it somewhere on the internet don't make it a fact. Connections on the internet will print and post anything they hear anonymously for personal or hidden agender. New York Times, CNN ring a bell?

    While you’re gathering the facts make sure to confirm how the actual payments are being made regardless of the amount they paid. We could read all about the facts of multibillion-dollar corporate deals all the time. Yet, a measly 2-million-dollar deal is kept more secret than the TRUMP dossier.

    This deal is no different than all the alleged AP claims of riches. Mike S. is a lying gambling fool which proved the math still needs luck to balance out. He sold his forum and name to the devil. Promoting illegal banking transferring of funds to offshore gaming sites from the USA. This is the type of gambling fool that would stick a dagger in your neck if he had no choice. Isn’t this the same guy that worked for casinos while desperate?

    All you AP’s from there don’t care one bit either. Instead of calling him out you all keep sucking his cock like he’s the king of gambling success keeping his phony myth alive.

    Oh yea, regardless any amount of money a gambling fool is given it will eventually disappear. He already writes about gambling experiences while traveling. If it’s a payment plan over time, he gets to last that much longer. Hope his wife and family are smart enough to capitalize and recover something the fool is given.
    Please post up facts and proof that your claims to being a VIP high roller are true.
    Please just go away.
    Just a little reverse-reverse psychology to try to make you think that what I want you to do is post until the day you die, so we can all watch the poor boy haggle, niggle and otherwise crappiggle himself the remainder of his way out from the world of the living.

    Or maybe, that you will, upon further self-AP narrative and "reflection", think that, well, gee, it must be that I really want you to stop punishing yourself long enough for your patina-tarnished brain to begin to pat itself on the back for climbing out of such a morass so you may die with some real bit of remaining dignity.

    You gave up the bottle, apparently, if you didn't jump right back into another sort of bottle. Now give up the baloney. But either way, how will you ever really know what it is that I want you to do (hereby, with my admittedly asking you to do the opposite?)

    Could it be that you are that singular type of person for whom no strategy will "work on", to tell you what to do or what not to do?

    Uncover your ass long enough for some sun to shine on it. Find out who you really are, either way. Take a chance. Let someone touch you.
    Last edited by Bill Yung; 10-17-2018 at 07:45 AM.
    78255585899=317*13723*17989=(310+7)*[(13730-7)*(100*100+7979+10)]-->LOVE avatar@137_371_179_791, or 137_371_17[3^2]_7[3^2]1, 1=V-->Ace, low. 78255585899-->99858555287=(99858555288-1)=[-1+(72*2227)*(722777-100000)]={-1+(72*2227)*[(2000+700777+20000)-100000]}-->1_722_227_277_772_1. 7×8×2×5×5×5×8×5×8×9×9=362880000=(1000000000-6√97020000-100000)-->169_721. (7/8×2/5×5/5×8/5×8/9×9)={[(-.1+.9)]^2×(6+1)}-->1961=√4*2.24; (1/7×8/2×5/5×5/8×5/8×9/9)={1/[7×(-.2+1)^2]}-->1721=[(10*10/4)/(√4+110)].

  17. #37
    If you consider yourself an AP, think of your play as one long session. it doesn't matter what happens with one hand, or in one day. One reason not to do an all-in, but better to do one-half all-in is in case you have a double or split.
    A self professed Legend writes ^


    Moses replies: Dumbass! Look at it as though there is ALWAYS on more thing you can do. Many of these thresholds will never teeter over to the positive side in your playing lifetime. So, it's wise to decifer the difference between a true advantage and just a threshold. You've been worrying yourself sick and wasting your life away at a blackjack table chasing thresholds.

    The other day a guy comes up, sits next to me, and starts playing HiLO. He made alot in a little bit of time. I moved on. Now I happen to be strolling through that same casino a couple of nights later. He was still sitting there all hunched over, profit gone, pissed off, hadn't done the 3 S's in 3 days. All in the pursuit of the almightly EV.

    In the meantime, I'd played 4 other sessions at various places and hit my goal for the week. I worked out/walked each day, took my lady to lunch, met with friends for song and laughs, watched a few games, studied sims, played some hands on Verite, and went to breakfast with a buddy. All in the time he was still sitting at that table.

    The is the kind of crap shoved up assses on other forums. They rely on the notion the evelasting hard swat will make up for variance. Disagree? And eventually you'll get banned.

    Find ways to reduce variance and learn to duck for a more balanced life.
    Last edited by Moses; 10-17-2018 at 08:04 AM.

  18. #38
    Originally Posted by Moses View Post
    If you consider yourself an AP, think of your play as one long session. it doesn't matter what happens with one hand, or in one day. One reason not to do an all-in, but better to do one-half all-in is in case you have a double or split.
    A self professed Legend writes ^


    Moses replies: Dumbass! Look at it as though there is ALWAYS on more thing you can do. Many of these thresholds will never teeter over to the positive side in your playing lifetime. So, it's wise to decifer the difference between a true advantage and just a threshold. You've been worrying yourself sick and wasting your life away at a blackjack table chasing thresholds.

    The other day a guy comes up, sits next to me, and starts playing HiLO. He made alot in a little bit of time. I moved on. Now I happen to be strolling through that same casino a couple of nights later. He was still sitting there all hunched over, profit gone, pissed off, hadn't done the 3 S's in 3 days. All in the pursuit of the almightly EV.

    In the meantime, I'd played 4 other sessions at various places and hit my goal for the week. I worked out/walked each day, took my lady to lunch, met with friends for song and laughs, watched a few games, studied sims, played some hands on Verite, and went to breakfast with a buddy. All in the time he was still sitting at that table.

    The is the kind of crap shoved up assses on other forums. They rely on the notion the evelasting hard swat will make up for variance. Disagree? And eventually you'll get banned.

    Find ways to reduce variance and learn to duck for a more balanced life.
    This sort of problem or confusion, among even the best of the AP's, arises from being pitted alone against the casinos.

    There is always an optimal strategy, but we must be careful to not isolate how we determine it. For sure, play the best game that you can, be as nasty about as you want to be, everyone for himself, play right, lunge and parry or all-in. Just be as sure to see your own specific optimal strategies well within any general optimal strategy.

    If the optimal strategy for poker player A to call poker player B's bet is a third of the time, then the strategy for A and C to call B sums to a third of the time. A and C work tacitly "together" to work for each other. This is sort of the basis for much of Nash's breakthrough game theory work as applied to economic theory to help to stabilize the stock markets. Full disclosure is better for everyone.

    Regardless, such optimal "socializing" is only one aspect of the many inherent connections derived from games. To try to play, let alone win, a game to some sort of isolated ending is plain foolhardy. Cold war stuff.
    78255585899=317*13723*17989=(310+7)*[(13730-7)*(100*100+7979+10)]-->LOVE avatar@137_371_179_791, or 137_371_17[3^2]_7[3^2]1, 1=V-->Ace, low. 78255585899-->99858555287=(99858555288-1)=[-1+(72*2227)*(722777-100000)]={-1+(72*2227)*[(2000+700777+20000)-100000]}-->1_722_227_277_772_1. 7×8×2×5×5×5×8×5×8×9×9=362880000=(1000000000-6√97020000-100000)-->169_721. (7/8×2/5×5/5×8/5×8/9×9)={[(-.1+.9)]^2×(6+1)}-->1961=√4*2.24; (1/7×8/2×5/5×5/8×5/8×9/9)={1/[7×(-.2+1)^2]}-->1721=[(10*10/4)/(√4+110)].

  19. #39
    Originally Posted by Bill Yung View Post
    Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
    Originally Posted by blackhole View Post

    Please post the facts and proof of that amount of over two-million dollars being paid to Mike S. for his gambling forum. After all, you're a lawyer with resources. Just because you read it somewhere on the internet don't make it a fact. Connections on the internet will print and post anything they hear anonymously for personal or hidden agender. New York Times, CNN ring a bell?

    While you’re gathering the facts make sure to confirm how the actual payments are being made regardless of the amount they paid. We could read all about the facts of multibillion-dollar corporate deals all the time. Yet, a measly 2-million-dollar deal is kept more secret than the TRUMP dossier.

    This deal is no different than all the alleged AP claims of riches. Mike S. is a lying gambling fool which proved the math still needs luck to balance out. He sold his forum and name to the devil. Promoting illegal banking transferring of funds to offshore gaming sites from the USA. This is the type of gambling fool that would stick a dagger in your neck if he had no choice. Isn’t this the same guy that worked for casinos while desperate?

    All you AP’s from there don’t care one bit either. Instead of calling him out you all keep sucking his cock like he’s the king of gambling success keeping his phony myth alive.

    Oh yea, regardless any amount of money a gambling fool is given it will eventually disappear. He already writes about gambling experiences while traveling. If it’s a payment plan over time, he gets to last that much longer. Hope his wife and family are smart enough to capitalize and recover something the fool is given.
    Please post up facts and proof that your claims to being a VIP high roller are true.
    Please just go away.
    Just a little reverse-reverse psychology to try to make you think that what I want you to do is post until the day you die, so we can all watch the poor boy haggle, niggle and otherwise crappiggle himself the remainder of his way out from the world of the living.

    Or maybe, that you will, upon further self-AP narrative and "reflection", think that, well, gee, it must be that I really want you to stop punishing yourself long enough for your patina-tarnished brain to begin to pat itself on the back for climbing out of such a morass so you may die with some real bit of remaining dignity.

    You gave up the bottle, apparently, if you didn't jump right back into another sort of bottle. Now give up the baloney. But either way, how will you ever really know what it is that I want you to do (hereby, with my admittedly asking you to do the opposite?)

    Could it be that you are that singular type of person for whom no strategy will "work on", to tell you what to do or what not to do?

    Uncover your ass long enough for some sun to shine on it. Find out who you really are, either way. Take a chance. Let someone touch you.
    Psychobabble.
    "More importantly, mickey thought 8-4 was two games over .500. Argued about it. C'mon, man. Nothing can top that for math expertise. If GWAE ever has you on again, you can be sure I'll be calling in with that gem.'Nuff said." REDIETZ

  20. #40
    Bill: There are tools to combat variance and develop a blackjack game within casino tolerance. But it takes work. However, the idiots on that particular forum make one begin to question the tools being offered from that resource. The game doesn't just fall positive in a persons lap. When/IF it does? There is the extreme liklihood of a pit boss/EITS saying NO MAS. If you're smart enough to exit on your own volition, then you can always come back. Win Today - Play tomorrow. But if they ask you to leave? Win or Lose, there IS no tomorrow.

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