Originally Posted by Ozzy View Post
Lol at Mickey and KJ being buddies, not quite you must be mistaking him for Singer.
Mickey was just trying to get a rise out of blackhole. And he succeeded. When blackjack responds calling him a 2 bit gambler, mickey got just what he wanted....to show what an idiot blackhole is. It is the same when blackhole calls me Houdini for some of the common things I do. He is just showing himself to be the idiot, the ignorant one, that hasn't a clue what he is talking about.

Now here is what is funny about this thread. Blackhole posts these things that he thinks are a gottch ya moment. You can see how excited he is in his writing. So I answer, not squirming like he thinks or coming up wth anything out of the blue, but just repeating things I have said, usually numerous times before. "This is how I do this or that or get around this or that". Nothing new. Nothing I haven't said before.

If I have said anything new in this thread it is 2 things. I probably haven't put a monetary value (EV) as to just how short my sessions are, like I have now done ($50-$60 in EV). Not a secret, I just never did it. Didn't seem like it mattered. I just said short sessions. Now people know just how short. The second is ratholing. I don't like to talk about ratholing, not because it is a secret, every card counter knows about and understand the advantages of ratholing. But many do it wrong, so I don't want to encourage it. You don't have to rat hole away hundreds of dollars of wins for that session, just your EV and your longterm win disappears. In my case that is $50 a session. It doesn't take any kind of great slight of hand, as blackhole is imagining. You can almost do it openly. You think the pit is going to call down and say "player in seat 4 just ratholed $50. Now if you are ratholing 100's that is different, especially if you rathole black or higher which is tracked.

And ratholing isn't a primary thing for me anyway. Playing unrated is the primary move. That is what I have come to specialize in. When I can't do that, which is only occasional, then yeah I will rathole a couple green a session to make my win go away. So that is why I haven't mentioned ratholing....most players do it wrong and I didn't want to encourage anyone. Everything else is techniques and things I have talked about before and none of it secrative....very common stuff.

So the gottch ya moments blackhole thinks he has created with each of these posts, turns into a small thud every time.

Now mickey did bring up one concern. While I have said all these things before, most numerous times, maybe there is some danger for me in it being said in one place. Not spread out in bits and peices. I don't know I guess we will see. I don't think so. By the same tooken if there are any newer players reading, and I don't know that either, I hope so, the info will be in one place, instead of bits and peices. Good for them, possible bad for me...but I don't think so.

But it is still fun to see blackhole make an ass of himself over and over and over again. He honestly thinks he has something each time he posts and I just explain it away with common things I have said before. Of course he is too dumb to get any of it. Everyone else does...he doesn't. It is like a joke at a party and he is the only one in the room that doesn't get it.