Tracking multiple BJ tables - Richard Munchkin

[AxelWolf]

99% of dealers have no clue where the house “stands” at any time. I mean, they know they have to stand on 17 (hopefully) but they have absolutely no idea whether the player or the house has the advantage on a particular hand.

For starters. They, the ones who "play" a lot more than you, will tell you the basic strategy rules of what to hit, etc, against what?

Don't be retarded, most dealers have no fucking clue whats going on, they know the rules(well maybe) and some might know basic strategy and few know how to count.

[Alan Mendelson]

Biloxi yes I also had to get gas and I also went thru a drive thru to get some food. I was also working on my website and I was also taking my girlfiend's dog for a walk about that time because it's too hot for dogs to walk during summer days. What else do you need to know dumbass?

That is quite a list for 3AM...working on a website....going thru a drive thru at presumably some fast food joint....getting gas (lol,that one always gets me)... stopping off at a casino to take pictures to try and prove some total stranger wrong on a website...and taking your girlfriends doggy for a walk....It`s rather confusing keeping track of your wives and girlfriends, but perhaps you might want to try more enriching endeavors at 3AM and maybe you won`t run thru females like a fat housewife runs thru bon-bons....wise up dummy

I wouldn't change my career one bit. Or my life. I've been a night person most of my life.

By the way a new movie is being shot at Caesars Palace this week. They begin shooting at 3am in the casino and for very practical reasons. That's the way it is in the media business.

[Alan Mendelson]

Edit: I just can't deal with you any longer Alan. You are turning me into the same kind of angry bitter person that you and your two anti-APers are. Goodbye Alan. Blocked.

And while I was blocking, I added a couple other names. I think this solves all my issues with this site.

I won't block you. If you ever make another fantasy claim I'll question it.

And please stop your immature claims that I'm against AP. We all want advantage play. But we want real advantage play and not fantasies.

[MisterV]

I wouldn't change my career one bit.

Really?

see: http://www.laobserved.com/archive/20...ned_to_ala.php


"What ever happened to: Alan Mendelson"
By Kevin Roderick | September 20, 2010 8:52 PM

Alan Mendelson, the former Channel 9 business and consumer reporter, talks to the L.A. Business Journal about his kidney and pancreas transplant, his infomercials pitching paid products and how he sees his firing from KCAL after 16 years.

They said, “We can replace you with two or three other reporters.” They let go of me and a bunch of other people over the age of 50. No mistake about it. We were replaced by younger people with blond hair and C-cups who made a lot less money. That’s the reality of the business."

________________________

Sounds like you once yearned for C-cups.

[AxelWolf]

[Alan Mendelson]

MisterV I have been in AFTRA jobs since 1972. I have a very comfortable pension (not a 401k but a real pension) I have a Cadillac health plan for life. I have interviewed four presidents, spent time with the Queen of England and the King of Spain. I've had excitement in my life others can only dream of. I've dated a Miss Florida, a Miss Miami, a Miss Israel and for a short time I was martied to a title holder from Arizona. What went on is none of your business but you can dream about it.

Yes I wouldn't change a thing.

And when I left the news business I continued my SAG-AFTRA career doing Infomercials and made even more money.

No regrets here. And I've had C Cups. LOL

[MisterV]

You sure sounded bitter there in that interview, Alan: you got the bum's rush because you aged out.

We all know you'd rather have continued your KCAL career as a journalist through the present time.

Peddling schlock via your website must seem a poor substitute.

Still and all, we play the cards we're dealt.

[Alan Mendelson]

I wouldn't call the high end home remodeling companies, or the lawyers, or mortgage companies I represent as "peddling schlock." And it's not just a website but a weekly TV show that has 200,000 viewers. Frankly, I have more viewers now watching my weekly TV show than I ever had watching my noon news report on KCAL.

As many as fifty of us were let go. We were all paid handsome amounts not to sue them for age discrimination, and all but one signed the agreement and took the cash. I took the cash. I walked away with more than two years of full pay... and two weeks later I was back on the air with my new program and company.

[MisterV]

I'm not attacking you; rather, I am pointing out that you were bullshitting a little bit about not wanting to change your career one bit.

Admit it: you were let go from KCAL against your will; you'd have rather stayed.

Instead of this:



Which is fine; no disgrace there.

But not what you'd prefer, eh?

[Alan Mendelson]

I'm sorry but my career hasn't changed. I've been in TV since 1973 and radio since 1966. The messages have changed but I'm still doing what I love to do.

[Alan Mendelson]

I'm not attacking you; rather, I am pointing out that you were bullshitting a little bit about not wanting to change your career one bit.

Admit it: you were let go from KCAL against your will; you'd have rather stayed.

Instead of this:



Which is fine; no disgrace there.

But not what you'd prefer, eh?

It's interesting you picked the video for the $5.99 Clothing Stores on my Infomercial show. When I was doing the news on KCAL I also reported on this clothing chain as the consumer reporter.

[MisterV]

It doesn't matter which one I picked.

The only point I am trying to make is that you took umbrage to being terminated.

That is a part of your career which you'd love to change.

You'd relish the ability to continue to reach a wider audience through KCAL.

It's only natural to crave the light once it's removed.

[Alan Mendelson]

Yeah, MisterV, it was me and about 50 others who were over the age of 50 and did not have our contracts renewed. So what's your point?

The day I was called into the News Director's office I was not surprised. I was not one of the first to be let go. I was given 30 days notice plus a severance package worth more than two years of full pay. I immediately went back to my office and called my wife and then I called three PR firms that I dealt with for various stories and told them what had happened. (It was no surprise to them either, this house cleaning of 50+ employees had already made the papers and the TV websites.) All three of them said the same thing: Alan, start your own show.

And two weeks later I was back on the air. I ran the show first on KCAL -- but then other stations made me a better offer and I moved the show.

As I said I now have a bigger audience (that means higher ratings) than I ever had on the news. And I even got to employ my son and daughter in the new "family business" though it's a part time job for them and they have other pursuits as well.

Ironically, most of the companies I regularly featured on the news for their "Best Buys" (my segment on KCAL was also called "Best Buys") followed me to my own TV show -- but now they had to buy the advertising time. 80% of the advertisers on my TV show today started with me on my own show more than 11 years ago.

By the way, this wasn't my first time in advertising. Years ago I was a partner in a radio station in suburban New York City, and I sold advertising then. So during my career I've pretty much done it all from "news stringer" (I was a stringer, Rob Singer was not), to part-timer, to overnight DJ, to part-owner, to network assignment editor and network reporter to local TV reporter to TV Infomercial Host.

It's been a lot of fun. As I often say when I am invited to speak to schools and church groups: it's been so much fun I can't believe that they paid me to do it.

[Alan Mendelson]

It doesn't matter which one I picked.

Yes it mattered. You were alleging that I push schlock and that's why you picked a discount clothing chain selling clothing at $5.99. You also could have picked one of my videos for a law firm or for a mortgage company or for a trade school, but you didn't. You picked the $5.99 Clothing Store.

[Dan Druff]

Show business is a tough place for older people.

Even Rick Dees, one of the most successful DJs in LA history, found himself out of a job at age 53, and no one really wanted to hire him anymore. He's been mostly out of radio ever since, save for a short-lived show on a different station, and some syndicated crap.

While Alan's show is indeed an infomercial, at least it seems he made a decent career move out of it, and parlayed his notoriety on KCAL into something profitable.

[Alan Mendelson]

Actually, Dan, Rick Dees at one time was a national radio figure with a syndicated radio show out of LA that played across the country.

He is back in LA radio now, sometimes doing "special" weekend shows.

The media business has flip flopped. When I worked at CBS News in the 1970s I wasn't permitted to being on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite because I was "too young." Instead I was assigned to do reports for other CBS network shows and to do radio where no one could see I had no gray in my hair. But today, it's all about having on air talent under the age of 40. And the reason is TV is trying to get more younger people to watch. That big change started about 10-12 years ago. KCAL, by the way, is a CBS owned station.

[Biloxi Bill]

Actually, Dan, Rick Dees at one time was a national radio figure with a syndicated radio show out of LA that played across the country.

He is back in LA radio now, sometimes doing "special" weekend shows.

The media business has flip flopped. When I worked at CBS News in the 1970s I wasn't permitted to being on the CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite because I was "too young." Instead I was assigned to do reports for other CBS network shows and to do radio where no one could see I had no gray in my hair. But today, it's all about having on air talent under the age of 40. And the reason is TV is trying to get more younger people to watch. That big change started about 10-12 years ago. KCAL, by the way, is a CBS owned station.

(Yawn)...Can you please tell me where I can buy the book "My Life as a Tapdancer,The Alan (All About Me) Mendelson Story"....included with a side of No-Doz

[kewlJ]

(Yawn)...Can you please tell me where I can buy the book "My Life as a Tapdancer,The Alan (All About Me) Mendelson Story"....included with a side of No-Doz

Yeah, I just LOVE how this thread about one of the top BJ AP's confirming what I said, turned into The Alan Mendelson Story. .

But I am done discussing tracking multiple tables in this thread or any other thread, so whatever.

Early on, after I started posting here, someone brought up "wonging", so I casually mentioned my version of "wonging" which is to track a second table and jump to a better opportunity. This being a fairly common technique that experienced counters have employed for decades, I had no idea it would be an ongoing discussion for 6 months, with me revealing so many details. In hindsight, it is a good thing this site has very limited membership and hopefully not (m)any casino personnel lurking.

So Alan you are not only free to believe whatever you like (but be careful sailing....I wouldn't want you to sail off the edge of the earth), but I encourage you to continue to argue the case against tracking multiple tables. Hell I encourage you to continue to argue the case against the possibility of advantage play and in particular card counting. Please post a few more times how there is no advantage to be gained without seeing every card. Maybe you could even print that out and send it to some of the casino execs.

[Alan Mendelson]

Kewlj are you reading my posts again?

[redietz]

Quick update: I am measuring the distances of various tables and eyeballing the visual requirements. It looks to me like taking photos with a phone can be massaged in either direction. A phone view really isn't an eyeball view. My eyesight is not 20/20, so if I can do a particular distance, pretty much anybody can except Mr. Magoo. I'll provide details next week, but my preliminary observation is that in terms of visual acuity, it can pretty clearly be done at both Palace Station and the Orleans. The Boyd properties, in general, seem to have somewhat shorter distances from a mid-table seat to the center of the next table over.

Dealers and pit bosses look at me somewhat strangely, but nobody's asked or approached regarding my measuring the distances. I'll be checking strip properties in the next day or two.