Need I-18 Cards

[Freightman]

At least you are only going to a bakery before the game, and not be eating something like a can of sardines while downing a bottle of Canadian Mist.

Sardines, prior to the poker game, yields an unfair advantage to consumer of same. yielding an unusual odor akin to mustard gas, which, during a check raise scenario, impairs the minds if opponents - thus is considered as illegal.

[Freightman]

Sardines, prior to the poker game, yields an unfair advantage to consumer of same. yielding an unusual odor akin to mustard gas, which, during a check raise scenario, impairs the minds if opponents - thus is considered as illegal.

Should add that consumption of a couple of beers, along with the sardines, yields a devilish mist sufficient to peel paint off the walls. It is considered poor comportment to do so at the home of another player/host.

[Diogenes]

Power golf tees (PGT) designed to hold your balls up while driving, depend on a Complex mathematical scenario, to determine the proper drop to account for the variable circumference of left VS. right nut. This is to insure symmetry to assure proper body alignment, thus avoiding that slanted sensation while driving. PGT, therefore requires a determination of both Left ball (LB), and right Ball (RB), via a combination table of all ball circumferences (Circum), incorporating, on a line by line basis, the calculated height differential, thus requiring input only the proper accounted line by means lookup formula, to insure the proper variable golf tee height.


Does Don S. more fully discuss this in BJA? I need to visualize it with charts and graphs. Ideally, I'd like a color-coded card so I can incorporate it into my practicing.

[Freightman]

Power golf tees (PGT) designed to hold your balls up while driving, depend on a Complex mathematical scenario, to determine the proper drop to account for the variable circumference of left VS. right nut. This is to insure symmetry to assure proper body alignment, thus avoiding that slanted sensation while driving. PGT, therefore requires a determination of both Left ball (LB), and right Ball (RB), via a combination table of all ball circumferences (Circum), incorporating, on a line by line basis, the calculated height differential, thus requiring input only the proper accounted line by means lookup formula, to insure the proper variable golf tee height.


Does Don S. more fully discuss this in BJA? I need to visualize it with charts and graphs. Ideally, I'd like a color-coded card so I can incorporate it into my practicing.

Don and I have discussed, at length, incorporation of the FBM ASC into BJA4. We have yet to discuss the xtension of concept to include PGT.

[tomf23]

People learn/remember things differently
Personally i always write down the indices i want to use before i go out and play. for whatever reason i remember things a lot better after writing them down rather than just reading them.

[tomf23]

Thinking about how the new generation tends to not memorize phone number because all the ones they need to commit to memory are in their phones memory made me think of this hilarious movie "Walk of Shame. The heroine finally gets a cell phone in a crack house which makes her ecstatic because she can finally call someone she knows to get her to work but then realizes she doesn't know anyones phone number by memory. For all you locker room humor types you should love this movie. It got some poor reviews because it is said to offend everyone. I just thought it was all good fun but you know the politically correct group loves to be offended and offend those that they don't agree with. They even have a scene where she innocently has an incident at a Chabad for Freighter that gets called into the police as a hate crime. The police keep getting calls about the hot babe in the yellow dress for all kinds of things as she just tries to find her way to work after a drunken one night stand. It will have you in stitches.

I'm in the generation you speak
I know very few numbers by heart- my grandparents because both of their numbers are the same from when i was a kid, and a few friends who have had the same cell phone number for 15 or so years bc back then minutes were a lot more limited so during the day i would sometimes call them from my house phone

everyone definitely learns differently
it's weird for the indices on hitting 12 vs 2-6 i remember them in order 3 2 0 -2 -1 going across from 2-6
but 16 vs 10 and vs 9 i remember going in the opposite direction from 10 to 9, probably because 10 comes up 5 times more often as the dealers up card, and because the count is around 0 a lot more often than it's around 5

I also know the indices for splitting tens but have never used them
I did see a guy split 10s last night and he ended up with 3 different hands vs a 6. the dealer busted and the other guy at the table went from irate do patting him on the back as his move "saved the table" but he clearly wasn't counting

[MJGolf]

That's all well and good. But when Flash sings Karaoke, his lyrics are numbers. Wait! Hold it. Yes. Norm, I think I just got an idea.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl2r--oAPBI

Hmmm. You could even practice on the plane.

From what I understand of his love of cars, Freighter would not be caught dead in a Sonata..............LOL

Speaking of I-18 cards; has anyone used the ones from Blackjack Info.............the stealth index variation cards that don't actually have the numbers on them and gotten caught by any pit critter? Most obviously allow basic strategy cards at the table but I wondered how closely they looked. And since that was what the OP was looking for................?

[Freightman]

From what I understand of his love of cars, Freighter would not be caught dead in a Sonata..............LOL

Speaking of I-18 cards; has anyone used the ones from Blackjack Info.............the stealth index variation cards that don't actually have the numbers on them and gotten caught by any pit critter? Most obviously allow basic strategy cards at the table but I wondered how closely they looked. And since that was what the OP was looking for................?

I had a 2008 Sonata Limited Edition with all the bells and whistles. It was a very nice car. I now drive a SUV. I find it very comfortable. 3 years this month with about 62500 miles, give or take. BJ regional trips plus day trips or longer with the wife.

[Joe Mama]

3 years this month with about 62500 miles

I thought you folks worked in kilometers. I remember my first trip on the QEW and seeing the large speed limit numbers. Once I figured out the conversion, I still almost got run over by those speed crazy Canadians.

[Freightman]

I thought you folks worked in kilometers. I remember my first trip on the QEW and seeing the large speed limit numbers. Once I figured out the conversion, I still almost got run over by those speed crazy Canadians.

We do, I converted it. I'm actually about 101700 km. Same issue in reverse. My wife flew to Vancouver, rented a car and drove to Seattle. Speed sign said 60 or 70, and if course, my wife never speeds. She couldn't understand why everyone was passing her, until it donned on her - she was driving 60-70 km per hour.

For you Yankees, the conversion is really simple. Speed limit us 110km per hour. Fpdivude by 10, then multiply by 6 - 67 mph. The actual conversion would be to multiply by 6.21. For your edification.

[Freightman]

I think most cars have the speedometer reading both in MPH and KPH.

Like the missionary, one if the isplays is dominant.

[RCJH]

Speaking of I-18 cards; has anyone used the ones from Blackjack Info.............the stealth index variation cards that don't actually have the numbers on them and gotten caught by any pit critter? Most obviously allow basic strategy cards at the table but I wondered how closely they looked. And since that was what the OP was looking for................?

I used them when I first started playing. Nobody gave them a second glance. I quit because I didn't learn any indices; the card became a crutch. And then I switched counts, so there was that.

I accidentally gave a card to my partner, thinking it was a BS card only (the set has both, indices and basic strategy). A critter asked to see the card, and didn't give it a second glance. I about shit my pants when I realized what card he handed over. He had no idea, of course, but this was at a sweaty casino in the NW of ante-land, where animals run. I thought we'd be barred before we were even competent.