How did you get involved?

[21frogman]

I had been going to LV, playing BJ, and enjoying it since the mid-60s. In the 90s I heard about and read Thorp. It simply made sense to use card counting in an an attempt to win. Subsequently, I read more books and learned some things online. I used HiLo ineptly until I came across the Casino Verite suite in the early 2000s. I read more, picked HiOpt II with an Ace side count, used CVCX (or CVData-I forget which & lost the data when my computer crashed) to make the number of indices more manageable. As I've posted here before, I found that there was little loss in EV by using indices -8 to 8.

[ZenMaster_Flash]

I would like to thank ZMF and Tarzan for their help in making me think about counting in untraditional ways.

Your gratitude is self-evident, needing no verbal expression;
but you are perfectly welcome of course. You are, after all,
my star acolyte, as so to speak, (with tongue in cheek). L.O.L

[ZenMaster_Flash]

The subtext of this thread has turned to the reactions on ordinary citizens.

I was on the road rather recently.
I texted my accommodating spouse.
I mentioned that I was ahead by 5K
By the next day I was "dead even"
Her response: Why didn't you quit?"

L. O. L.

[ZeeBabar]

The subtext of this thread has turned to the reactions on ordinary citizens.

I was on the road rather recently.
I texted my accommodating spouse.
I mentioned that I was ahead by 5K
By the next day I was "dead even"
Her response: Why didn't you quit?"

L. O. L.

In the middle of a trip, I always tell her "I have won $100-$200) so far" and only if she asks or the reaction is the same as yours or "come home before you lose it back".

[Exoter175]

I pretty much ran face first into what would become my mentor in all things AP, and he taught me the world, though a few things I have since learned myself

[PhillyNewbie]

My brother-in-law was deeply involved in the AP game in the late 1970's-early 80s. He took personal lessons with Lawrence Revere, played on Ken Uston's original Atlantic City team, and was memorialized in one of Uston's books as "The South Philly Kid" (most of the details were false, though). After I married his sister, he loaned me "Million Dollar Blackjack" and I was hooked.
As an aside...he paid $800 for a 6 page booklet with the Revere Point Count..the same count available for free here!

[Norm]

$800 when Revere died was worth $3,200 in today's money.