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Thread: Short term vs long term and quitting while ahead (continued)

  1. #221
    Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post


    I've interviewed four Presidents,


    over and over you keep mentioning your accomplishments as a newscaster

    it gets real tiring

    I was going to let you slide on it, you're not young_______ I don't like getting in the face of an older person

    but now it's gotten to be too, too much

    I put your name into google and YouTube to find info about you interviewing Presidents and I came up empty - I put exactly this into Google - Alan Mendelson and President - got nothing

    then I put your name together with Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, George Bush and Bill Clinton and came up empty



    if you provide documentation, not just your saying so, of your interviewing Presidents I will be happy to apologize


    .
    please don't feed the trolls

  2. #222
    Originally Posted by Half Smoke View Post
    Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post


    I've interviewed four Presidents,


    over and over you keep mentioning your accomplishments as a newscaster

    it gets real tiring

    I was going to let you slide on it, you're not young_______ I don't like getting in the face of an older person

    but now it's gotten to be too, too much

    I put your name into google and YouTube to find info about you interviewing Presidents and I came up empty - I put exactly this into Google - Alan Mendelson and President - got nothing

    then I put your name together with Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, George Bush and Bill Clinton and came up empty



    if you provide documentation, not just your saying so, of your interviewing Presidents I will be happy to apologize


    .
    Really? LMAO

  3. #223
    Originally Posted by Half Smoke View Post
    Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post


    I've interviewed four Presidents,


    over and over you keep mentioning your accomplishments as a newscaster

    it gets real tiring

    I was going to let you slide on it, you're not young_______ I don't like getting in the face of an older person

    but now it's gotten to be too, too much

    I put your name into google and YouTube to find info about you interviewing Presidents and I came up empty - I put exactly this into Google - Alan Mendelson and President - got nothing

    then I put your name together with Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, George Bush and Bill Clinton and came up empty



    if you provide documentation, not just your saying so, of your interviewing Presidents I will be happy to apologize


    .
    Now he's riding the rail of the craps table at Red Rock living in a rented apartment.....RIP

    I vote to let the man live a little.

    If secret agent Grandpa Newell can. Why not Alan?

  4. #224
    Originally Posted by Rob.Singer View Post

    The lesson in my post is that AP's can lose over the long term
    Only retarded ones.

    But seriously, perhaps some extremely rare situations where that could happen... like if someone was always chasing situations where the bulk of the payback was all tied up in super rare events such as... dealt sequential royals, slot progressives, megabucks, sports long shots, Lotteries, razor-thin edges on something like UX VP. The opposite can hold true if someone gets lucky and hits those types of things.

    FYI, we have to define the long run, because if we are talking about a true long run, your statement is absolutely incorrect.

    There's little to no chance of this happening on games like baccarat. Yeah, I'm sure someone could show a computer simulation where someone runs well on all their bigger bets and keeps ahead of the game for a very long time.

  5. #225
    Originally Posted by MaxPen View Post
    Originally Posted by Half Smoke View Post
    Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post


    I've interviewed four Presidents,


    over and over you keep mentioning your accomplishments as a newscaster

    it gets real tiring

    I was going to let you slide on it, you're not young_______ I don't like getting in the face of an older person

    but now it's gotten to be too, too much

    I put your name into google and YouTube to find info about you interviewing Presidents and I came up empty - I put exactly this into Google - Alan Mendelson and President - got nothing

    then I put your name together with Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, George Bush and Bill Clinton and came up empty



    if you provide documentation, not just your saying so, of your interviewing Presidents I will be happy to apologize


    .
    Now he's riding the rail of the craps table at Red Rock living in a rented apartment.....RIP

    I vote to let the man live a little.

    If secret agent Grandpa Newell can. Why not Alan?
    When I moved to Vegas four years ago I didnt know where I wanted to live. So I rented.

    A year ago I moved and rented an apartment near Janet so I could take care of her.

    For the past year I've been staying in hotels in Salt Lake City and keeping my apartment in LV so that I can help Janet here with her leukemia treatments.

    Sometimes Maxpen you cross the line of decency.

    Edited to add: let Dan tell you where this post is coming from. He can track it.

  6. #226
    What does any of this matter?

    Alan or anyone else claims they saw 18 y.o.'s in a row or any other highly unusual, highly unlikely gambling result. Whether they did or didn't how does it change my life? or any one else's? The only thing that makes this fun is that if such an event occurred, there surely would have been some reference to it. And there is not. But again, what does any of it matter?

    Now on to Alan's latest claim of interviewing presidents, and kings and queens. Again, what does it matter? Who is Alan trying to impress and why? This is a gambling forum. Who cares about whether Alan interviewed presidents, kings and queens in his role as a reporter. Does that make any thing else he says more credible? Are we now to believe the 18 y.o. in a row because Alan may or may not have interviewed a President?

    What if Pete Rose was a member of this forum? And he claims to have won playing the number 14 (his baseball number) for 14 consecutive spins at roulette? I doubt any one would believe that claim, but would the fact that Mr. Rose was baseball's all time hit leader, make him more credible? I think not.

    So who cares? I doesn't change anything in my life. BTW, it didn't happen.

  7. #227
    Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post
    Originally Posted by Half Smoke View Post
    Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post


    I've interviewed four Presidents,


    over and over you keep mentioning your accomplishments as a newscaster

    it gets real tiring

    I was going to let you slide on it, you're not young_______ I don't like getting in the face of an older person

    but now it's gotten to be too, too much

    I put your name into google and YouTube to find info about you interviewing Presidents and I came up empty - I put exactly this into Google - Alan Mendelson and President - got nothing

    then I put your name together with Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter, George Bush and Bill Clinton and came up empty



    if you provide documentation, not just your saying so, of your interviewing Presidents I will be happy to apologize


    .
    Really? LMAO

    Yeah, I have to agree with Alan. LOL. Is this how people decide what's real? They type a couple words into google and believe that's "research?" What the flying fuck? Are the younger generations really this narcissistic, lazy, and stupid?

    You can tell none of the youngsters knows what journalism's about or how to do basic research. I pity the youngsters in academia. They must think that no studies were done before 1995 or something like that.

    It's so naive, it's unbelievable. There's this narcissism to it. If typing a couple words yields no results, the "researcher" thinks he's done due diligence. The theory is that everybody wants to be on YouTube, so if googling yields nothing, it must not exist.

    The accompanying consequence is that, since everyone can google, everyone's an expert. On everything. LOL. The person doing the googling is not the center of the universe. Google is not God.

    And Alan did the interviews. So the fact that he did the interviews completely debunks this particular way of evaluating what's real.

    There's also this lazy component to it. When someone says, "I googled it and found nothing," do they really mean they googled and read 500 pages of results and found nothing, or do they mean they googled two or three pages and found nothing?

    This way of evaluating the world is just so lazy and childish. Hint: if you want to know something about somebody, google, then make some phone calls. Take notes. Do follow-ups. Send emails. Cross-reference different experts or witnesses. There's some brilliant out-of-the-box ideas, eh?
    Last edited by redietz; 05-05-2022 at 09:34 AM.

  8. #228
    Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
    [B]….. This is a gambling forum….:
    I don’t think it is tho.

    Fucking redeitz yelling at clouds about “journalism” practices again. Only a matter of time. No mention of a freshman journalism class this time though.

  9. #229
    Originally Posted by mcap View Post
    Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
    [B]….. This is a gambling forum….:
    I don’t think it is tho.

    Fucking redeitz yelling at clouds about “journalism” practices again. Only a matter of time. No mention of a freshman journalism class this time though.
    Drawing the conclusion that Alan Mendelson didn't do the interviews he said he did because you google it and see nothing IS BEING DUMB AS A ROCK. You can call what I'm espousing here journalism, or research, or a way to evaluate the world. I don't care what you call it. If that's how you determine the truth of what someone says, you're lazy and dumb as a rock.

  10. #230
    Originally Posted by mcap View Post
    Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
    [B]….. This is a gambling forum….:
    I don’t think it is tho.
    I stand corrected. You are right, mcap. I should have injected "supposed to be" (a gambling forum).

  11. #231
    Originally Posted by redietz View Post
    Originally Posted by mcap View Post
    Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
    [B]….. This is a gambling forum….:
    I don’t think it is tho.

    Fucking redeitz yelling at clouds about “journalism” practices again. Only a matter of time. No mention of a freshman journalism class this time though.
    Drawing the conclusion that Alan Mendelson didn't do the interviews he said he did because you google it and see nothing IS BEING DUMB AS A ROCK. You can call what I'm espousing here journalism, or research, or a way to evaluate the world. I don't care what you call it. If that's how you determine the truth of what someone says, you're lazy and dumb as a rock.
    What is it that’s really your problem Red? Cuz this can’t be what’s really got your panties twisted.
    Last edited by mcap; 05-05-2022 at 10:06 AM.

  12. #232
    Just to remind those of you unable to read or comprehend... I mentioned some of my life experiences to point out that seeing 18 yos in a row is insignificant in my life.

    If any of you had a life it would be insignificant to you too.

    But this forum is your life.

    Carry on. I don't want to interfere with your lives.

    Right now I'm sitting in Janet's hospital room. She's sleeping. On morphine.

    How I wish we weren't here. I'd rather be losing thousands at a craps table. And that's the truth.

    In fact I'd give up everything not for her to be on morphine and sitting here.

    Enjoy your lives.

  13. #233
    Originally Posted by mcap View Post
    Originally Posted by redietz View Post
    Originally Posted by mcap View Post

    I don’t think it is tho.

    Fucking redeitz yelling at clouds about “journalism” practices again. Only a matter of time. No mention of a freshman journalism class this time though.
    Drawing the conclusion that Alan Mendelson didn't do the interviews he said he did because you google it and see nothing IS BEING DUMB AS A ROCK. You can call what I'm espousing here journalism, or research, or a way to evaluate the world. I don't care what you call it. If that's how you determine the truth of what someone says, you're lazy and dumb as a rock.
    What is it that’s really your problem Red? Cuz this can’t be what’s really got your panties twisted.
    I keep overestimating posters' intelligence. I keep overestimating the degree to which posters want to get things right as opposed to spouting whatever they feel like saying.

    It blows my mind that someone says "I googled and found nothing," which is asinine in itself to write that, which I will get to in a minute. But to assume you have somehow cornered the market on reality by typing a couple of words speaks to a laziness of thought I just cannot comprehend. It's like dealing with children. I want to know this now and I need to square away what I think or feel about this in two minutes or less. The sheer laziness is incomprehensible to me.

    And that line about "I googled this and..." is a throwaway line. It says nothing. If you're going to report about what you googled, at least be decent enough to say "I googled and searched x number of pages with y listings on each page." Nothing you do via google is some kind of exhaustive search unless you use multiple combinations of words and literally search each combination to the end of the listings, which nobody ever does or can do. So instead of saying I googled this and found nothing," the person reporting should explain how many listings he read. Was it 10 or 20 or 500? Did he spend ten minutes or an hour or a day doing the research?

    It's disingenuous to say, "I googled something and found nothing" without stating how much you actually read. If people were to report how much they actually read every time they write, "I googled...." it would put an entirely different spin on their credibility or lack thereof.

    To take a line from blackjack counters, "Every use of google is a partial use of google."

  14. #234
    Originally Posted by MaxPen View Post
    .

    Now he's riding the rail of the craps table at Red Rock living in a rented apartment.....RIP

    I vote to let the man live a little.

    If secret agent Grandpa Newell can. Why not Alan?
    And maxpuke is getting his rump roasted by his boyfriend in an old trailer court in north las vegas.
    Last edited by mickeycrimm; 05-05-2022 at 11:04 AM.
    "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. #235
    Only those with an actual real life could understand what you meant Alan. The rest haven't been to, haven't seen, and haven't experienced much more than comped buffets, a colorful collection of slot club cards, or gridlocked LV street traffic. And that's exactly why 18 yo's--an extremely unlikely event included within a life-lived collection of other similarly very unlikely events--is constantly mocked here. And this....from a group who worships at the altar of mathematical possibilities.

    Let the entertainment keep coming. It'll help keep your mind busy as you navigate another nearly impossible event: watching the suffering of a person very special to you.

  16. #236
    Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson View Post
    When I moved to Vegas four years ago I didnt know where I wanted to live. So I rented.

    A year ago I moved and rented an apartment near Janet so I could take care of her.

    For the past year I've been staying in hotels in Salt Lake City and keeping my apartment in LV so that I can help Janet here with her leukemia treatments.

    Sometimes Maxpen you cross the line of decency.

    Edited to add: let Dan tell you where this post is coming from. He can track it.
    Salt Lake City has the nicest cleanest downtown of any big city in the country. And maxpen is a fulltime scumbag.
    Last edited by mickeycrimm; 05-05-2022 at 11:08 AM.
    "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

  17. #237
    Originally Posted by AxelWolf View Post
    Originally Posted by Rob.Singer View Post

    The lesson in my post is that AP's can lose over the long term
    Only retarded ones.

    But seriously, perhaps some extremely rare situations where that could happen... like if someone was always chasing situations where the bulk of the payback was all tied up in super rare events such as... dealt sequential royals, slot progressives, megabucks, sports long shots, Lotteries, razor-thin edges on something like UX VP. The opposite can hold true if someone gets lucky and hits those types of things.

    FYI, we have to define the long run, because if we are talking about a true long run, your statement is absolutely incorrect.

    There's little to no chance of this happening on games like baccarat. Yeah, I'm sure someone could show a computer simulation where someone runs well on all their bigger bets and keeps ahead of the game for a very long time.
    Bob Dancer says playing UX gave him his only losing year. And you know he always plays with a theoretical edge. I think it was 2015.
    Last edited by mickeycrimm; 05-05-2022 at 11:09 AM.
    "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

  18. #238
    Some notes about Salt Lake City. As opposed to Vegas and LA there are very few homeless visible here. Make no mistake there are homeless people. But you see very few tents in parking lots and on sidewalks.

    I did see one group of four tents in a commercial area near a Sam's Town and other big box stores. But when I passed by I saw two official looking types with badges and clipboards talking to the men there. It appeared to be social workers.

    But I have to add this is a boring city. Everything seems to close at 7pm.

    No gambling here. But I'm sure you knew that. But there are billboards for Nevada casinos, and we found that unusual for an area that is so opposed to gambling.

  19. #239
    I have just over 7000 posts on this forum in 6 years. I look at that number and it seems high and am a little embarrassed at first. Divide it out and it comes to between 3 and 4 posts a day. That doesn't seem outrageous. I have always wanted to share some of my experiences and journey. Starting to want to do so less these days.

    But I just find it extremely "rich" that this forums leading poster with over 18,000 posts is lecturing us all on having no life and posting too much. And big surprise the furum's second leading poster closing in on 10,000 posts, Rob Singer is backing him up. Classic definition of hypocrites.

  20. #240
    Originally Posted by Alan Mendelson
    I've also reported that the Atlantic City record dice throw was also beaten at Caesars, but Caesars didnt report or promote. A software engineer at a $10 table on a afternoon with only one other player held the dice longer than the 4 hours 18 minutes at the Borgata. The pit boss told me the two guys rarely pressed.
    Really?

    Where / when did you report it?

    Shocking that Caesars did not report this to the media, given all the positive attention Demauro's roll got Borgata (and for the game of craps in general).

    While not as unlikely as 18 yo's in a row, beating Demauro's Borgata record ain't chopped liver.

    Oh, for those who understand math: the odds of someone throwing 154 times before rolling a seven is reported as being 1.56 trillion to one; the Wiz calculates the odds of rolling 18 yo's in a row at being much, much higher...so high as to dwell in the Land That Math Forgot.

    Look, we can say pretty much whatever we want on these forums; some of us prefer truth, some just like to cause consternation and hoopla; up to the viewer to pick up and examine each road apple, I mean each pearl of wisdom posted here and then decide for himself.

    Going down memory lane ain't so bad provided the road leads somewhere worth getting to.
    What, Me Worry?

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