Originally Posted by redietz View Post
KewlJ, this is the last post I'll make here until announcing my day-to-day LV schedule. I have avoided mentioning this because I'm really not into, "So-and-so-said," as a substitute for simple, cogent argument, but for you I'll make an exception since you seem to be a knowledgeable AP and respectful of established APs who know more than you and have more experience than you.

You really should stifle the "stupid statements about EV" comments when it comes to sports betting. The whole EV schtick is fine for sports betting in PAST tense. As in, "the EV for doing A, B, and C WAS this." It's also fine when evaluating arbitrage or bonus exploitation. But you really should not lean on "EV" estimates for sports betting in the present or the future. Sports betting is not coin flipping.

My point to you, since you are an "AP," is that your friend and mine, Richard Munchkin, agrees with this and agrees it kind of goes without saying. Which is actually really obvious.
Munchkin is your friend? Good for you. But I must correct you, I don't consider myself friends with Munchkin. He is a guy I respect as far as his AP career, including his days as a card counter.

Back in the days I was still on Norm's forum, which has been a decade now, I used to communicate with Munchkin privately. That is when he invited me on GWAE and I declined and told him why. I haven't communicated with him much since. Of course neither of us is on Norms forum anymore. Munchkin paling around with James for years now.

I think I did contact him 5 years ago, when I came here and the whole counting a second table thing was blown out of proportion, mostly by people that don't even play blackjack. I contacted him and he told me he had at times done so as well, which was just what I expected.

But if you are friends with him, tell him I said hello, and hope he is doing well.