Originally Posted by
mickeycrimm
Originally Posted by
kewlJ
Alan posted a thread yesterday at Wov entitled "losing" in which he claims to have read an article about a card counter who lost $6000 in one day, while playing postive expectation. Alan says the card counter was playing a spread of $50-$200 and Alan's conclusion is that the player lost 120, $50 bets....which is obviously wrong.
I find it hard to beleive a serious card counter was only playing a $50-$200 spread. I suspect Alan got many aspects of the article wrong (as he often does). So I hope someone asks him to link to the article, just to see what he thinks he read.
Alan was talking about you, KJ. You made a statement about losing 6K on $170 in expectation. He ran to WoV with it because he didn't want to get clobbered here.
That is what I thought at first mickey, but then I went back and read what I posted.
I never actually mentioned $6000. I just said I had a pretty good losing session after lunch that left me with about $4000 which was not enought to comfortably start a new session. I also never mentioned a bet spread or max bet, especially a $200 max bet...that is ridiculous.
If he was talking about me, leave it to Alan, the
so called journalist, to get everything ass backwards. So the actual details were that I lost a couple smaller sessions before lunch totaling about $1100. After lunch, I had a session that I lost $4850. I was playing a spread with a max bet of $400. So that is 12 max bets that were lost....which is not that many at all. I don't know what this crap about a player losing 120, $50 bets and how unlikely that was, was all about.
That Alan is
some journalist alright. I also thought the purpose of his thread was to mention a player losing while recording postive expectation. Alan just has never understood EV. It also just continues to amaze me how these guys that talk about me, from Alan, to Moses, to Mdawggy, to blackhole, don't get
anything right about what they are saying. That can't be by mistake. They all distort everything.