Originally Posted by AxelWolf View Post
Dan, while you're at it can I get a 2 team parlay going on this stuff? MDawg claims some nonsense about being able to remember all cards that have been played from a shoe or some nonsense. I don't know his exact claim, but I remember it being ludicrous.
This alcoholic's memory is as bad as UNKewlJ's math. Obviously he thinks that being able to know the cards that fall from a deck is "ludicrous" because he can't even remember 1/10 of what he reads or happened last week.

The claim I made was

How about if that person puts up a good sum for a challenge, just a single deck for demonstration purposes. Wizard can deal a one on one game against me, normal speed, half way through the deck I will write down every card that has been played, in terms of each type of card, aces, 2s, 3s, etc. or more detail if the challenger so requires. The more detail, the more he had better put up.

I'd name the number I have in mind for the challenge, but then that person would probably say that I am naming an absurdly high number just to scare him off.




and the Wizard himself backed it up:

Based on this and other posts, maybe this talent is more of a 1 in 1,000 kind of thing than one in a million. Whatever the proportion of the population that has such a memory, I'm not a part of it. I don't buy combination locks, because I can never commit the combination to memory. So, I'll retract that point.




after he realized that the claim isn't all that extraordinary, after a couple members like UnJon and TigerWu stepped up to say that they could do it too or that they knew people who could do it.

There are players who can memorize six decks, every card that has landed.

Nico was playing six decks "only" apparently.

Nico Zoographic

Nicolas “Nicky the Greek” Zoographic is a famous baccarat player who lived during the early twentieth century. He was a member of a group of gamblers who toured European casinos. They made a fortune playing high-stakes games of baccarat, and Zoographic was renowned for his memorization skills and mathematical abilities. His memory allowed him to memorize every card in a baccarat game and alerted his team when the odds were in their favor.

During the early 20th century, Zoographic was a member of the Greek Syndicate, which controlled all baccarat tables. He had an amazing memory, and he was able to remember the order of three dozen cards when played with six decks. Zoographic also had an amazing ability to gauge fluctuations in odds in favor of the bank, and he was able to make the best bets according to that information.