My new blog!

[moo321]

Hey guys, I started a new blog. The plan is to discuss all sorts of things related to advantage play. For the next couple of months, I plan to kick out at least one post a day.

I have a post on cover:

https://cashcowconsultingblog.wordpr.../cover-part-i/


The Reality of Casino Cheating:

https://cashcowconsultingblog.wordpr...casinos-cheat/

How to Learn Basic Strategy:

https://cashcowconsultingblog.wordpr...asic-strategy/


And the Purpose of Training

https://cashcowconsultingblog.wordpr...1/17/training/

Feel free to comment on posts, here or on the blog.

[DSchles]

Hey guys, I started a new blog. The plan is to discuss all sorts of things related to advantage play. For the next couple of months, I plan to kick out at least one post a day.

I have a post on cover:

https://cashcowconsultingblog.wordpr.../cover-part-i/


The Reality of Casino Cheating:

https://cashcowconsultingblog.wordpr...casinos-cheat/

How to Learn Basic Strategy:

https://cashcowconsultingblog.wordpr...asic-strategy/


And the Purpose of Training

https://cashcowconsultingblog.wordpr...1/17/training/

Feel free to comment on posts, here or on the blog.

When you have some spare time, maybe you can reread my chapter on camouflage, since what you wrote about it in your first blog represents the worst misunderstanding of the chapter by anyone who's ever read the book. Providing information, for the first time, on what the cost of misplaying a hand is, is a far cry from advocating doing it. I'm sorry you weren't able to understand that from a close reading of the text. For example, I write, middle of page 93, "My conclusion is obvious. First I wouldn't make mistakes at all." Sorry if you found this difficult to understand. My language skills are limited (but, apparently, not as limited as your comprehension skills).

FWIW, I've been playing blackjack for 41 years and have probably purposely played a hand wrong about five times in my life. So, yet again, providing information, for both counters and basic strategists, on what the cost of misplays would be, in direct response to letters from readers who solicited such information (that's how the chapter starts, in case you missed that), is vastly different from recommending that such plays be made.

Incredible that you would launch such a ridiculous diatribe before understanding what the hell you were reading. Note, finally, on the same page 93, "I spoke with Stanford Wong and Arnold Snyder, and they were both very enthusiastic, stressing the usefulness of this kind of information." But, what do they know?

Don

[DSchles]

Re your How to Learn Basic Strategy blog, you might want to correct the following error:

5. If the dealer is showing a 2-7, hit until you have soft eighteen or higher.

You might want to make that 2-8. Or, you might want to leave it alone, because what do I know?

Don

[moo321]

Don, I tell people to buy your book in spite of the glaring, fundamental errors, and this is the thanks I get?

If it were anyone else, I would just rip them a new one. But I'll let you write up a post explaining why I'm wrong, and I'll publish it. Then the fun will begin.

https://cashcowconsultingblog.wordpress.com/submit/


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[mcallister3200]

I thought it was more or less a re wording of grosjeans rant, and name dropping to try and create some sort of recognition/more credibility to those who may not know him. could be wrong, but really really went out of the way to do so when the same point would have been as effective without the reference.

Found some good points but thought it was done in poor form.

[RS]

Your blog and post here is basically a gigantic ad for your overpriced classes.

[DSchles]

"But I'll let you write up a post explaining why I'm wrong, and I'll publish it."

Thank you for the invitation. I respectfully decline. The book speaks for itself, the information is crystal clear, and is self-explanatory. NOTHING in the chapter advocates playing hands incorrectly. Instead, the math catalogs the cost of so doing, if you choose to.

Ask 50 people here if they would ever play a hand wrong on purpose, and I would imagine you'd get your fair share of yes answers, along with 25 different reasons as to why. The book attempts to answer the question of how much such misplays would cost. It doesn't attempt to legislate as to whether or not such misplays are recommended. That you seem to think otherwise is surely not my fault.

Don

[Norm]

Moo, I have been asked to delete your post as an ad. I allow ads from contributors, so there is no rule violation. And, I have allowed your ads in the past. But, your blog contains claims that are quite absurd. There are exaggerations that are so extreme as to drastically mislead. Frankly, I have to tell you that your site, as it currently exists, should be avoided.

[Bodarc]

Actually Moo, it was done in very poor taste. You should have just stated your opinion on the subject with your documentation to prove your point and made no reference to Don's theory. You do not need to demean another to prove yourself. Let your accomplishments speak for themselves.

[moo321]

You're contradicting yourself:

FWIW, I've been playing blackjack for 41 years and have probably purposely played a hand wrong about five times in my life.

"Although I included the gains available from splitting a pair of tens against the dealer's five or six, when I wrote "Attacking the Shoe," I don't recommend use of these departures." (Blackjack Attack, p. 383)


And there is such a thing as the point of a post.

[moo321]

Actually Moo, it was done in very poor taste. You should have just stated your opinion on the subject with your documentation to prove your point and made no reference to Don's theory. You do not need to demean another to prove yourself. Let your accomplishments speak for themselves.

There is a source of the cancer.

[Norm]

Are you suggesting that we split tens? I understand the brute "logic" of what you say, I don't understand the purpose. BJA clearly talks to the advantage and risks of such and also advises against them. Is this upon what you base your harsh comments?

We stand on the shoulders of giants. To suggest that we should ignore their works so summarily based on a post makes your site one that we should suggest be avoided.

[moo321]

Norm, I suspect you're reacting at an emotional level to what you perceive as an attack on a friend.

Re-read the post later.