Originally Posted by redietz View Post
Originally Posted by mickeycrimm View Post
I doubt Wong named the strategy after himself. He was once asked about the term "Wong" or Wonging." He said he happened to meet a couple of pro blackjack players in a casino. They talked for awhile but he never told them who he was. After awhile one of them said "Excuse me, I have to go Wong this blackjack game." He said that was the first time he ever heard the term "Wong." It was his readers that actually created the term.
When I talk about Wong (the mailman) naming stuff after himself, I'm talking about him doing and publishing an analysis of the different win percentages of teasers being dependent on where in a spread they are applied. Wong did the analysis and made it public, so they became known as "Wong teasers," which was ridiculous because knowledge of the advantageous application of teasers to some spreads as opposed to others not so advantageous was known for 30 years (at least) before he publicized it. Nobody called the particular applications of teasers to specific spreads Wong teasers before his analyses were published. Why would they?

As to the blackjack stuff, I literally have no idea and no opinion. I'm talking strictly about the teaser applications.
It was most likely his readers that started calling them wong teasers, not him. And....why would someone with a PHD from Stanford become a mailman? I think you may have Arnold Snyder mixed up with Stanford Wong.

In blackjack, wonging is standing there counting the shoe without playing until you get a positive count, then sitting down and playing. Wong put forth the concept in one of his books but he did not call it wonging. His readers that actually put the concept into practice started calling it wonging. To counter the wonging casinos started barring mid shoe entry.

I'm sure "wong teasers" got the name the same way, from his readers.