Originally Posted by
AxelWolf
I can't confirm anything about KJ 100%.
I think it's pretty obvious he knows enough about card counting whereas I believe he's a card counter. I haven't any idea what limits he plays or if he 100% supports himself solely on that, but to be honest I don't really care.
There have been some things that he said that make me take great pause and I just find them hard to believe.
This is pretty much my opinion about kewlJ.
Card counting is actually the easiest form of +EV gambling to learn and get fairly good at quickly. Something like poker takes a lot of experience and hours at the table. Machine APing requires a lot of experience, connections, and trial-and-error, as well as a lot of time/travel in some cases.
In 2000, I developed an interest in learning how to count cards. As embarrassing as it is to admit, I was a ploppy -EV gambler up until then, despite being old enough to gamble since the early '90s. (In my defense, I only played low limits, and only gambled once every few months, so I didn't lose much.)
Anyway, I read a text file on the internet about how to card count, spent a short time running hands through a free simulator, and voila, I was a +EV BJ player. Was way harder and more time consuming to get good at poker, which I attempted the following year.
My point is that if kewlJ wanted to learn how to become a profitable BJ player, it wouldn't have been hard for him to learn. So anyone believing he's a BJ ploppy spinning a phony tale about being a counter is just speaking from a place of hatred.
At the same time, kewlJ has also been caught in a lot of lies over time, both on this forum and elsewhere. Therefore, it is unclear if he really makes much (or anything) playing blackjack these days, especially given the increasingly difficult environment to count cards and get away with it. I don't even bother anymore, except at casinos where I don't care about getting banned.
kewlJ is basically the Boy Who Cried Wolf of these AP forums. He has lied so many times that it's impossible to believe any stories he tells, which means that even when he's telling the truth, we think he's lying. That's entirely his fault.
Regarding him possibly being Asian, who cares? It doesn't matter at all what race he is. That has no bearing on anything else. I don't understand why his race is such a big talking point, aside from people trying to figure out who he is in real life.