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People witness all sorts of things. Lets look at Zenking for an example. It really means so little. The convergence of luck, many trials, and human psychology basically guarantee people will come up with theories to explain their running bad.
I don't dismiss and demonize Zenking as easily as some of you people do. Sure he vents too much. Looking only from a distance as I do, it looks to me like he doesn't handle the normal variance, especially the negative downswings that are a normal part of card counting very well. It sometimes takes a while to understand and be able to deal with this part of the game. But he should be past that and better able to handle it by now, IMO. But everyone is different.
But make no mistake, despite the demonizing that is frequently done to Zenking, he is a real player, who makes a living playing and he surely has seen some things where that internal "gut feeling" of an experienced player kicks in and say "something is not right".
On top of that, Zenking, knows, meets with, talks to a number of real advantage players that play for a living, both blackjack card counting and other methods. I am quite sure some of them have seen things that they don't talk about on forums, for the exact reasons that have played out ever since I first mentioned this.
So Zenking may be a little overly paranoid, which probably doesn't serve him well and he may not be able to handle the severest of swings yet, like he probably should, but don't just dismiss him as a crack pot. He is an experienced card counter/blackjack player who no doubt in my mind has seen some things that are "not normal" and knows and speaks with other experienced players that know things.
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