Autoground: New 'Standard Strip' Rules?

[Greasy John]

> I may be alone in this opinion, but I don't think that
> the game will ever return to what it was.
> The slots make more money for the casinos. Every body
> and his brother has learned to count cards in the last
> twenty to thirty years. Hundreds of books on blackjack
> have been published since Thorpe and Revere. Casinos
> have been legalized and built in many many states
> besides Nevada. And it's about the most simple game
> you can play in the casino. If all that's not enough,
> casinos have gone out of the way to protect and even
> increase their edge on the game by making single deck
> virtually impossible to find, offering only 6:5
> payouts on blackjacks, providing no games with
> meaningful penetration, and backing off winners
> whether they are actually counting or not. Each one of
> these facts carry enough implications to provide
> enough material for yet another book on blackjack:
> Blackjack Is Dead: Who Killed the Best Game in Town?

I noticed you refer to him as Thorpe. You are not the first to do so--On the back cover of WGBJB there's a quote/testimonial from "Thorpe". But if you get a copy of Beat The Dealer, it's Thorp.

Greasy John

[Don Schlesinger]

>But if you get a copy of Beat The Dealer, it's Thorp.

Even if you don't get a copy, it's STILL Thorp! :-)

Don

[Parker]

> I noticed you refer to him as Thorpe. You are not the
> first to do so--On the back cover of WGBJB there's a
> quote/testimonial from "Thorpe". But if you
> get a copy of Beat The Dealer, it's Thorp.

I think people confuse his name with that of Jim Thorpe, the famous athlete.

I seem to recall making the mistake once myself in a bj21 post several years ago. Someone immediately corrected me.

It may well have been Don. :-)

[Don Schlesinger]

> I think people confuse his name with that of Jim
> Thorpe, the famous athlete.

Yes, definitely.

> I seem to recall making the mistake once myself in a
> bj21 post several years ago. Someone immediately
> corrected me.

September 2, 2002.

> It may well have been Don. :-)

Nope. David D'Aquin.

Don

[Sun Runner]

[Don Schlesinger]

[Mr. X]

Back when I had a real job, in D.C., and back when I had a real girlfriend (hard to believe on both counts), we once had a conversation that went something like this-

Betsi- "Twayla Tharp is in town. You probably don't even know who she is"
Me- "Sure I do"
Betsi- "OK, who is she?"
Me- "You don't trust me?"
Betsi- "As far as I can throw you. You have no idea who she is"
Me- "She's a choreographer"
Betsi- "I'm shocked! How did you know that?"
Me- "Because I'm a connoseur of the fine arts"
Betsi- "That's a steaming pile of BS"
Me- "Because I appreciate the nuances of the modern dance"
Betsi- "Where's my boots? The BS is getting high"
Me- "Because every time I'd see her name in the paper, at first glance I'd think it was a blackjack article about Thorp, my former professor and blackjack guru, then I'd realize there was an 'a' instead of an 'o', and I'd say "crap, it's another article about that lesbian dance teacher!'
Betsi- "Now THAT'S the first thing you said that I believe!"