Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
I'll be honest.
The thing I hate about blackjack is that you can never play long enough to smooth out the variance.
You can get destroyed at the beginning of a session, and you know you're never coming close to breaking even, and in fact it will take a number of future sessions at average luck to get back to even.
It's soul crushing.
There is some voodoo-ism in your statement Dan Druff. I expected a little more from you. Your post sounds like something Alan would say.
I don't play poker Dan, so I can't make a comparison to that, but we both play VP (although I am getting a way from it). So in VP, you can have that same "get destroyed" early on. But you know if you keep playing, you will hit some big hands and eventually a royal or two and results will come in line with expectation. It is long-term thinking. Same with Blackjack. Why would you even make that kind of silly Mendelson-like statement?
Almost anything in the casino, short term results can reak havoc.