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    Quote Originally Posted by CEO1 View Post
    You are so right....I have examined my life and determined that it is a waste of my time to share my 40 years playing experience on this forum anymore. Goodbye and I leave you to Zeebar with his advice that is so misguided and wrong i pity all the Newbies that listen to him.
    Man, it’s time you admitted yourself to a nursing home, you are getting senile. Your comprehension also seems to have been affected. If you read the thread again, I suggested the poster provide more details so “others” could provide advice. My OZnLZy advice was for the poster to post more details.

    Moreover, I did not attack you or address you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZeeBabar View Post
    My OZnLZy advice was for the poster to post more details.
    Zee, my OZnLZy advice to you is please start proofreading your posts before clicking Post Reply.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Casinoguy13 View Post
    I made $25,532 since Covid ended. It’s easy.
    Famous last words: what an easy game this is!

    Don

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    Quote Originally Posted by DSchles View Post
    Famous last words: what an easy game this is!

    Don
    No. I’m playing a winning game. It’s unlikely they would tell me I’m not allowed to play anymore if they didn’t feel I was a threat to the bottom line.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Casinoguy13 View Post
    No. I’m playing a winning game. It’s unlikely they would tell me I’m not allowed to play anymore if they didn’t feel I was a threat to the bottom line.
    You seem to have misunderstood. I didn't say you weren't playing a winning game. I cautioned you not to call it easy. Eventually, you will understand.

    Don

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    Quote Originally Posted by CEO1 View Post
    Hey, I said sorry, but it is not my fault you don't understand how BJ works. Weeks are absolutely nothing. The fact that you don't understand this, either in actual playing experience or by practicing for endless numbers of hours on CV, show you just don't understand blackjack and the theory behind it. The fact that you and Zeebar also see it as an insult rather than good hard advice show that you do not yet have a correct foundation to understand the game, is your fault, (and Zeebar's BTW), not mine. I have played for over 40 years and worked my way to the highest stakes, so I probably know just a tiny bit more than you do. You just cannot make the statement you did with a strong understanding of the game. Variance in BJ is a killer and unless you fully understand it and how to live with it, and plan for it, you just cannot survive.

    A drill sergeant does a disservice to his soldiers if they allow them to go into battle unprepared, they are confused and shaken like you are. If you read what I said several times and look at it from that perspective maybe you can understand that I was actually trying to be helpful, but you would rather be spoon-fed by Zeebar, so okay, good for you. You just cannot play BJ at the highest levels without this type of mindset...but then Zeebar never has...so better to listen to him and his pseudo-psychological preening.
    +1

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZeeBabar View Post
    You don’t know if it’s variance, it could be game selection, rules and multiple factors. Without more details, you cannot provide a definitive answer.
    I believe the response was intended to point out the player's superficial knowledge of all things blackjack, not technical knowledge of counting, or even the issues of game selection, etc, but the overriding influences of variance. The underlying premise of the initial post was a lack of understanding about why he was not doing better.

    Just asking the question is an answer by itself.
    Luck is nothing more than probability taken personally!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stealth View Post
    Just asking the question is an answer by itself.
    +1

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    Quote Originally Posted by DSchles View Post
    You seem to have misunderstood. I didn't say you weren't playing a winning game. I cautioned you not to call it easy. Eventually, you will understand.

    Don

    Casino blackjack was invented to satisfy one's penchant for sado-masochism.
    Last edited by Jabberwocky; 07-07-2020 at 06:56 PM.

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    Thank you Cohiba, Stealth & Ploppy for understanding what I was trying to say. Playing BJ at the professional level is like walking a dangerous high-wire or rock climbing without a rope, you can't fall very many times and expect to walk away. In my experience the two main areas that cause people to fall off the highwire are lack of understanding and willingness to accept variance, and not betting enough when the deck is in a positive position. With Don S. Ill 18 a Hi-lo a player can do fine if they just understand variance and getting the money out there. Almost everything else "takes care" of itself. Knowing how to play every hand at every possible count, probably costs as much as it makes...all things considered. When someone shows a lack of knowledge about any of these points...they cannot possibly succeed and are certain to fall and hurt themselves. BJ is a game of discipline.

    I have risen to the highest level of play both in BJ and business (MUCH more profitable by the way), by taking advice and listening to it, NOT on my terms but on the terms of the person giving advice. Most of my best teachers I had a love/hate relationship at first until I realized they had something I didn't but desperately wanted.......success.

    Thanks again.
    CEO1

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    Quote Originally Posted by CEO1 View Post
    Knowing how to play every hand at every possible count, probably costs as much as it makes...all things considered.
    Huh?

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    Quote Originally Posted by 21forme View Post
    Huh?
    Okay, justifiable "huh". When I first started, I memorized and practiced everything. I had stacks and stacks of flashcards for every possible situation with every possible playing condition. For me, the Illus 18 by Don S. solved that. I could get just about as much out of the game by only worrying about a MUCH smaller number of situations. This allowed me to focus more on SO many other aspects of the game and what was going on around me. It felt like I was set free from the oppression of the strategy charts, free to think about how to get more money out there, free to have a better "act", free to enjoy the game more and play faster and faster at higher and higher stakes, free to think more about when I should or should not leave a table. I thank Don S. for that, and if a Nobel prize was ever awarded for BJ, he should get it.

    That's all I meant. The only thing I can offer this board is a lifetime of my BJ experience. But I have made a lot of money playing this way.

    But good and appropriate "huh".

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    Very good post, CEO1! I also was a bit scratching my head concerning what the phrase invoking the "Huh?" exactly meant, but now it's crystal clear and logic.
    Last edited by PinkChip; 07-08-2020 at 03:18 AM.

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