How the Vegas Casinos can be beat....
14 October 2004, 06:12 PM
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How the Vegas Casinos can be beat....
BBC2 TONIGHT at 9pm
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Making Millions the Easy Way: When a brilliant scientist worked out a way to beat the odds on blackjack, a cat and mouse game began between teams of young whizzkids and the Las Vegas casinos.
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Making Millions the Easy Way: When a brilliant scientist worked out a way to beat the odds on blackjack, a cat and mouse game began between teams of young whizzkids and the Las Vegas casinos.
14 October 2004, 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Buckrogers
BBC2 TONIGHT at 9pm
Horizon
Making Millions the Easy Way: When a brilliant scientist worked out a way to beat the odds on blackjack, a cat and mouse game began between teams of young whizzkids and the Las Vegas casinos.
Horizon
Making Millions the Easy Way: When a brilliant scientist worked out a way to beat the odds on blackjack, a cat and mouse game began between teams of young whizzkids and the Las Vegas casinos.
or just be me. I went last summer and came back with $500 more than I went with
14 October 2004, 06:48 PM
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and I came back nearly 200 dollars up last year, off again in 6 weeks
They dont allow card counters, it is forbidden, off to the desert with you if your caught LOL
They dont allow card counters, it is forbidden, off to the desert with you if your caught LOL
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14 October 2004, 07:23 PM
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LOL, buck PM'd me special to tell me about it 
As it happens me and my mates are having a home game tonight (texas holdem (cards)) but I'll suggest we put this on in the background 
It'll be interesting to see the theory behind what they did. Lol, I think you all think I'm some sort of gambler. I only play with an edge which is why the ONLY gambling I do is poker
Hence the, 'how do I blow £10 gambling' thread
As it happens me and my mates are having a home game tonight (texas holdem (cards)) but I'll suggest we put this on in the background It'll be interesting to see the theory behind what they did. Lol, I think you all think I'm some sort of gambler. I only play with an edge which is why the ONLY gambling I do is poker
Hence the, 'how do I blow £10 gambling' thread
14 October 2004, 07:36 PM
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I can't get the program here, but will someone let me know if the scientist in the program is Dr. Edward Thorp? If so, that is a pretty old program as his book was published more than 25 years ago and the casino rules have been changed quite a bit since then to counter his system.
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Originally Posted by lokokkee
I can't get the program here, but will someone let me know if the scientist in the program is Dr. Edward Thorp? If so, that is a pretty old program as his book was published more than 25 years ago and the casino rules have been changed quite a bit since then to counter his system.
was a really interesting program
14 October 2004, 09:57 PM
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Originally Posted by lokokkee
I can't get the program here, but will someone let me know if the scientist in the program is Dr. Edward Thorp? If so, that is a pretty old program as his book was published more than 25 years ago and the casino rules have been changed quite a bit since then to counter his system.
Very intersting program. Dr Thorpe went on to make billions from the stock market, using, probability.....if I only I was that clever...!
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14 October 2004, 10:00 PM
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I can't get the program here, but will someone let me know if the scientist in the program is Dr. Edward Thorp? If so, that is a pretty old program as his book was published more than 25 years ago and the casino rules have been changed quite a bit since then to counter his system.
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If there is an edge I'll take it Won the home game btw The highlight was when I was on the big blind with 93o and the small blinds limped with a7. The flop was 9,9,9 and he kept betting his ace high
Won the home game btw The highlight was when I was on the big blind with 93o and the small blinds limped with a7. The flop was 9,9,9 and he kept betting his ace high
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Jamo, YHM and thanks.
Dr. Thorpe was the pioneer on blackjack card counting and strategy and started a players revolution with schools teaching players how to beat the casino, professionals giving up their jobs and make millions off the table (at least that's what the title of the book Million Dollar Blackjack implies) and also spurred me to make that my ambition too. Alas, the only casino in town changed to 6 decks after a team of foreign players armed with the strategy paid it a visit and made off with a few hundred grand.
Dr. Thorpe's next project was to develop a system for bacarrat, the only other casino game where the hands are not independent events statistically. Nothing much was heard of this, guess he got sidetracked by his stockmarket simulation studies, which is the biggest casino in the world.
Then there are attempts to predict winning numbers in roulette, with micro-computers to help track the movement, and all sorts of methods to cheat the slot machines. What facinates me most is the magic tricks with cards. If only I can produce an ace in every poker hand that I dealt myself, (in home games, each player gets to deal in turn, unlike casino where the house provides the dealer), I will be a very rich man, but neither my eyes nor my hands are fast enough nowadays.
Dr. Thorpe was the pioneer on blackjack card counting and strategy and started a players revolution with schools teaching players how to beat the casino, professionals giving up their jobs and make millions off the table (at least that's what the title of the book Million Dollar Blackjack implies) and also spurred me to make that my ambition too. Alas, the only casino in town changed to 6 decks after a team of foreign players armed with the strategy paid it a visit and made off with a few hundred grand.
Dr. Thorpe's next project was to develop a system for bacarrat, the only other casino game where the hands are not independent events statistically. Nothing much was heard of this, guess he got sidetracked by his stockmarket simulation studies, which is the biggest casino in the world.
Then there are attempts to predict winning numbers in roulette, with micro-computers to help track the movement, and all sorts of methods to cheat the slot machines. What facinates me most is the magic tricks with cards. If only I can produce an ace in every poker hand that I dealt myself, (in home games, each player gets to deal in turn, unlike casino where the house provides the dealer), I will be a very rich man, but neither my eyes nor my hands are fast enough nowadays.
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