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    Quote Originally Posted by ZeeBabar View Post
    DBS, you seem obsessed with Don J. Every HOF has a player of two that did not deserve to be in it while better players were not elected. In the case of BJ HOF, they probably need a celebrity or two to spark the interest of the average casino visitor.
    Fair point. I’m not obsessed with Don, but I have done a lot of research on him when I heard some of his interviews. They almost seemed unbelievable. I checked to see if casinos were really that dumb to let him get away with his cheesy type of AP play.

    What I found is a very different story than I thought I’d find. It’s very different than how the Atantic magazines article paints him.

    You’re probably right. The BJ Hall members just voted him in because the Atlantic magazine article made him famous, and they wanted someone famous in their Hall who the public knew about.

    I still think the Hall members should think about voting Kerry Packer into the Hall. He was a larger than life figure too, and a big gambler like Don Johson.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dbs6582 View Post
    You’re probably right. The BJ Hall members just voted him in because the Atlantic magazine article made him famous, and they wanted someone famous in their Hall who the public knew about.
    99.9999% of typical blackjack players have no clue who this Don Johnson is. If you were to ask, I all but guarantee you they'll say the guy from Miami Vice.

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    I am not AP in any mean, just a regular player who want to learn counting card when playing BJ but I am in casino black list. LoL. I did not have astonishingly good run but had some good +EV streaks last few weeks, of course also had some other -EV streaks.

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    I wonder if there could be any scientific (non voodoo) explanation to lucky streaks other than dumb luck, gambler distorted perception, or cheating. Something like subconscious processing for example. I actually looked through the articles there and some of the work stinks voodoo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dbs6582 View Post
    If I only reported on my winning sessions and ignored my losing sessions, I could claim I’ve won millions from casinos too.
    Probably not. I don't think most recreational players have won a million dollars in their winning sessions. Okay, I know I have put millions on the table in blackjack bets, but winning sessions are another thing. I went back and checked my winning sessions for the last 11 years and they total only $215,000 or an average of about $20,000 a year. Even my best year winning sessions only totaled $32,000 and that represents a total of a 129 sessions played both losing and winning. Of course this is at the red chip level, but even at green chip you might make a million, but millions is doubtful.

    By the way, Kerry Packer was just a gambling ploppy who inherited his money. He would have been better off just investing it in the stock market.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Packer

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    Quote Originally Posted by Midwest Player View Post
    Probably not. I don't think most recreational players have won a million dollars in their winning sessions. Okay, I know I have put millions on the table in blackjack bets, but winning sessions are another thing. I went back and checked my winning sessions for the last 11 years and they total only $215,000 or an average of about $20,000 a year. Even my best year winning sessions only totaled $32,000 and that represents a total of a 129 sessions played both losing and winning. Of course this is at the red chip level, but even at green chip you might make a million, but millions is doubtful.

    By the way, Kerry Packer was just a gambling ploppy who inherited his money. He would have been better off just investing it in the stock market.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Packer
    Midwest Player, you're somewhat making the same point I’m making. I get that Kerry Parker is a ploppy. My point is Don Johnson is too, at least when he went on his three casino win spree. What made Don Johnson famous is having three big wins in about a six month time period in 2012 when he was playing like a ploppy, and taking advantage of loss rebates. By Don’s own admission, he had several losses during this time period, but he won’t revel how many or how big they were. Who knows, Don could have lost more than he won during this timeframe. Only Don knows the whole story.

    After Don’s famous wins, he was welcome back so we know he wasn’t playing with an advantage. The main thing the casinos took away from Don was his loss rebates, which is why he probably moved into the second phase of his blackjack career, where he tried to play with an advantage with “his entourage”. One of his “advantage plays” he talks about in interviews is trying to distract dealers into misplays by having porn stars by his side. I hope this unique advantage play technique isn’t what got him elected into the Hall.

    Here’s an interesting tidbit. After Tropicana got rid of their loss rebates for whales program, their profits went down. Tropicana made less in 2013 (with no loss rebates) than in 2011 and 2012 (when the loss rebate program was in full swing). Based on this data, you could make a case that the casinos went too far removing their loss rebate program. Btw, how do I know this? Because Tropicana is a public company so their financial records are public information. I looked it up.

    When Zee asked me why I was obsessed with Don Johnson, I thought about it some more. I’m not so much obsessed with Don Johnson as I’m trying to understand why the BJ HOF members voted a person like Don Johson into their Hall. Don’s accomplishments were nothing more than having a couple big wins using loss rebates and getting an article written about himself.

    If this is all it takes to get in the BJ HOF then I think Kerry Packer should be in there too. That was my point on bringing up Kerry Packer. Kerry had bigger wins than Don Johnson, and casinos feared him too, even though he was a ploppy.

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