Another post from the guy (or one of the guys) that has absolutely no clue. He proves he has no clue with each post like this.Originally Posted by blackhole
BULLSHITOriginally Posted by kewlJ
No one ever said the simple advantage play of blackjack card counting doesn’t exist. It’s a confirmed mathematical fact.
Edward Thorp one of the founders of card-counting wrote the book “Beat the Dealer” in 1962. That’s almost 60 fucking years ago. Hundreds of books with different and contemporary strategies have been printed since.
Casino employees hired to protect their investments read all the same books and some people are just as old. They read and know all the same things you do. They most likely even read BJ gambling forums looking for any new moves that might pop up. I know if I was employed for this job by a casino, I’d be reading everything I could, making myself look more important and a needed asset for my employer, in turn facilitating my next raise and promotion. That’s all I do and my only way to improve my future.
Bottom line here, is you’re not pulling off your Houdini BJ fantasies counting cards in Las Vegas for 80K to 100K per year. Not today. Your BJ moves are older than you are, and they saw it all already. Just removing one player like you would pay their salary. Imagine a hundred of you. They have more motivation in 86ing you then you have in beating them.
YOUR FULL OF SHIT, and everyone knows it even your cult member friends.
Let me ask you this. Why do you think the casino industry as a whole didn't go entirely to continuous shuffle machines 10 years ago when it was beleived CSM's for all intensive purposes, ended blackjack card counting? We now know that CSM can be beaten by a couple different ways, but they thought it could end card counting and for the most part didn't go to it. In fairness there are two resons and one was cost. Those machines had to be leased and that was an ongoing expense that most casinos didn't want to pay. But even so, to END this threat that you all paint as a fatal threat, know as card counting. That lease payment would have been a small price to pay.
Or how about 6:5 blackjack? Why has every casino, every blackjack table not gone to 6:5 blackjack which for all intensive purposes does end card counting. Holecarders still beat 6:5 and card counter using an astonomical spread, 1-50, 1-100 can beat 6:5, but it is pretty obvious. But for traditional card counters, 6:5 ends card counting opportunities. So why have casinos not gone exclusively to 6:5 or CSM?
The answe is the casino industry (at least here in nevada where they really understand things) doesn't want to end card counting. Card counting and the cat and mouse game is good for the casino industry business. That it is common knowledge that a game can be beaten is the best thing that can happen. 1000's, or tens of thosand try, but only a very few are a serious threaat. Most under funded and with just enough knowledge to do themselves harm, lose as much if not more than players playing any other losing way imaginable.
Do you know the two times in history that blackjack revenues really bounced upwards significantly in las vegas? It wasn't when they went to 6 or 8 decks, it wasn't CSMs. It wasn't 6:5, which is basically cheating in the form of short pays. It was the years just after Thorp's Beat the dealer came out and again the years just after the books and movie "21" came out about the MIT team. Blackjack revenues exploded upward both those periods as players flocked to blackjack thinking they could beat it, when only a very select few actually could. THAT is why blackjack card counting is tolerated and why the cat and mouse game exits instead of some method to definitively eliminate card counting. You can talk to any real casino industry expert to confirm.
Once you understand that, understand that there are levels and styles of play that are tolerated, then you begin to understand what I do....identify and play within those tolerated parameters. I don't know how many times I have to say this. I could play much bigger. I could play $100 tables spreading up to $2000, $3000, or even higher. ($5000 might be just a tad much for my BR). I have the bankroll to support that. BUT that is not what is tolerated. That is NOT what you can play and remain in the comfort level, in the range that is accepted.
The things you say, "technology" and they "won't and don't allow players to count cards anymore", is just the stuff that people that don't know, don't have a clue think. people that have no idea of the game within the game and what is tolerated. You and Rob and others saying these things that I am sure you beleive, but just are not how things are, you might as well be saying the earth is flat. That is how outdated your thinking is. You look silly based on reality. The reality is blackjack card counting IS tolerated because it is good for the casino industry to do so. So to succeed, you identify and play within that comfort or tolerated zone. It is that simple.
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