Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
So MDawg advises his friends not to play bac as he does because they don't make the same decisions as he does? Well, there is a lot of decision making in bac. Let's see. You have to choose to put your money out or not. And you have to choose between banker or player.

Wow! That's some real heavy duty thinking there. You would need an I.Q. of....of....at least....well....at least 40. It's mind boggling just thinking about it. So much tougher than card counting....or learning video poker strategies....or playing live poker correctly.

So I don't blame MDawg for advising his friends not to play. They are not as smart as he is. You have to be a fricking brain surgeon to figure out when to bet and whether to bet on player or banker. I mean, there could be volumes of books written about it. The complexities of the game would take a lifetime to master.

Now, let's see. Do I want player or banker? Player or banker? Player or banker? Damn....that's a tough one. I wish MDawg would write a book about it. Or ten books. Maybe if I study for a lifetime I might get it.

Hard to improve on the mickeycrimm argument.

I have two semi-qualifications to have an opinion on MDawg's storyline. First, I have spent somewhere around 40K hours in casinos lifetime. Your normal dusk-to-dawn casino employee has spent more, but not from the angle of beating the casino (or, in my case, the sports books). Second, I actually have done a little paranormal debunking in my life, even being invited at one point to be an investigator for the short-lived SSDPE (Society for the Scientific Documentation of Paranormal Experiments). And what MDawg is claiming in terms of results is clearly paranormal, as were "Singer's" video poker claims before he decided he was an AP.

If anyone wants my opinion on MDawg's storyline or angle, PM me. If you are willing to provide a real name to attach to your questions, email me at integritysports@aol.com.

I mean, the whole thing is silly. If MDawg were relating these stories at a Blackjack Ball, people would assume he was being comedic. Well, how or why should a forum devoted to gambling be qualitatively different from the Blackjack Ball?

I have more of an issue with Todd Witteles than I do with MDawg regarding the MDawg posts. Here's why. If a poker player came on here and claimed he did the poker equivalent of MDawg's baccarat tales, I'm reasonably sure Todd would step in immediately and give a stern lecture about reality and honor and all that. Instead, because the tales are about baccarat, Todd lets it all slide. So Todd doesn't really give a rat's ass about plebes playing baccarat with dreams of mass profits, or this site, or preventing casino moles from steering people wrong. Given how Todd fights for every scrap of comps (even worse than me, which is saying something), I find this decision by Todd to be inconsistent and weird.

I mean, it puts people like kewlJ and mickeycrimm and Axelwolf in the position of playing Todd's Poker Fraud Alert role here because Todd doesn't feel he needs to exercise "Casino Fraud Alert" warnings.

The whole thing is, of course, silly, but it does undermine the legitimate APs in the eyes of civilians because the MDawg stories run screamingly counter to math-based expectations.