Casinos Pay Troubled Individuals to Intimidate Intelligent Gambling System Authors

Posted on August 04, 2000.

In Reply to: Casinos Show Their Ugly Faces When Intelligently Challenged posted by Shirley Ann Jennings on August 04, 2000.

• Blackjack card counting, as devised by Edward Thorp is a footnote to gambling history now. It offered a slight advantage in one-deck games, and especially towards the end of the deck. Ideally, a player could destroy the blackjack game IF knowing the composition of the deck AND the sequence of the remaining cards in the deck. The latter part is the REAL problem: Nobody will ever be able to know the sequence of the remaining cards in the deck.

  The count may be +5, but often the sequence is Low (L) card, High (H) card, Low, Low, High, High, Low, Low, High, etc. Both the dealer AND the player has an equal probability to get an HLH hand AND bust. Luckily for the house, the player plays first and loses the bet immediately in the case of a bust. And that's what they call house advantage (HA).

• I went to the extreme in programming a blackjack application to play online or against the computer. The program provided what I call total blackjack card count. The count alone does NOT offer winning the game of blackjack automatically. You guessed it again: The staggering amount of card sequences is insurmountable, axiomatic one.

The dealer has the same probability to get the high cards. It is even more complicated when one considers that there are several players at the blackjack table. The cards, Low and High, will be distributed randomly among them. What makes a particular player believe he/she would be the one to get the High cards? In one-deck games, and only playing head-to-head against the dealer, there is a slightly higher chance for the player to get a blackjack. The dealer also has an equally higher chance to get a blackjack. The difference is the player is paid 150% for a blackjack, while the dealer always gets 1 to 1 for a natural. Let's say the player has a 2% higher probability to get a blackjack (for a positive count, including Aces). Under normal circumstances (count = 0, neutral), the probability of a blackjack is just under 5%. What is 2% of 5%? 0.002 x 0.005 = 0.00001; that is, 0.001% better probability! I do not want to enter into the mathematical details of card counting.

Suffice to say: The effect of card counting at blackjack is negligible these days. The danger is that most players expect to really win if the count is positive. So, they increase the bet, and keep increasing the bet. The result can be a much faster pace to bankruptcy. Suppose, absurdly, it is true a card-counter has a 2% advantage at blackjack. Does it make sense to play blackjack? The card counter can still lose a lot of money. Wouldn't it be wiser to invest the money in the stock market, or a savings account, or in CD? The investor gets at least 3%-4%, much better in most cases…

• Quod erat demonstrandum! Exactly what I said: You are Chip! The very same reaction! I challenged you, Chip, to casino testing our roulette systems, and you got mad erupting. I demonstrated in my previous post (to Anne "Don't-Call-Me-Chip" Shirley) that card counting has no mathematical foundation. Again, you erupted in rage. You are seriously troubled! Blackjack card counting afflicted a deep wound on your psyche. You may have paid lots of money on it and may have lost lots of money with it in casinos. It's not my fault. Actually, like other readers of this BBS, you can make money with my free roulette system. Hey, is that what troubles you most these days? You know that I can track you. You can run but you can't hide. Keep your problems away from this place. No more postings, no more (blocked-out) emails. The law requires you to e-behave! Regardless of who you are, behind your mask…

• Gambling Mathematics Applied to Blackjack: The Myth and Deception of Blackjack Counting Cards.
  ~ Chip had started a thread on blackjack card counting and how it was shown on CBS's 60 Minutes; the TV network did not realize the fake conceived by the casino and Ken Uston! Kenny won at will in a game that's close to coin tossing at best!

Set the record straight on Chip, his real name, criminal behavior, Powerplay roulette, baccarat - June 2004.

Ion Saliu's note 2008

Look at famous casino moles and even conspirators I exposed

• Wizard of Odds;
• John Patrick;
• Chairman John Schroder of MGM Grand Casino.
• Plus several more -
• despicable casino gambling creatures;
• Gambling Is Science, Norman Wattenberger, Formulae, Randomness.
  ~ That's when the vicious attacks against yours truly started. Norman Wattenberger, author and promoter of blackjack software, books, tried hard to silence me on the pretext that “random events cannot, by definition, be captured in formulae”!

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: : Mathematics in casino blackjack gambling: The card counting myth. Casinos pay troubled individuals to intimidate intelligent gambling system authors. Card counting, as devised by Edward E. Thorp is a footnote to gambling history now. The effect of card counting is negligible these days. The danger is that most players expect to really win if the count is positive. So, they increase the bet, and keep increasing the gambling bet. The card counter can still lose a lot of money. The prevalent opinion (documented) is this: Thorp was never a successful blackjack player. He was never successful using his card counting system at the blackjack table. The truth is that other famous card counters have failed to gain consistently money in the casino. There are still some professional black jack card counters around today, although the casinos are wise to the danger and bar any player they suspect is counting. I demonstrated in my previous post that card counting has no mathematical foundation. The casinos owe big time to all authors of card-counting books. Then, in places where it is legal to ban skilled players from the blackjack action, the casinos commit downright robbery. From what I have read, the casinos show a strong bias towards barring a player when he/she is at a serious LOSS! I read once that a known card counter was losing some $14,000. Exactly at that point, the pit boss approached the counter and asked him to leave the blackjack game! Get it? The $14,000 went immediately to the casino bottom line! The title of this extraordinary article is "Casinos pay troubled individuals to intimidate intelligent system authors". The casinos pay troubled individuals to intimidate intelligent system authors in order to eliminate serious financial losses caused by intelligent system players. The casinos even sponsored forums! Be sure you know about casino, author, gambler, gambling system developer, systems, gambling, intimidation, desperation, intelligent, sponsorship, forums.

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