Don, the Lincoln quote on page 162 that John Auston used was in reference for players to always look for the best game in relation to SCORE. Whereby giving the player the best chance to win more money by playing to the highest EV possible. Of course every new player needs to learn that quickly early on. Now who is more likely to actually follow through with that expert advice given. Someone with knowledge and practical experience, or someone who read the book thoroughly but with very little playing time?
Last edited by BoSox; 05-20-2020 at 08:35 PM.
In regards to the above sentence I should have made reference to Blackjack Attack 3rd Edition instead of just saying the book, as the intent was meant as a real compliment to Don's work, which I would described as comprehensive. Explained further, great established players after playing the game for years are still surprised to find valuable pieces of information that they have missed, or not completely grasped correctly after reading the book numerous times. Subsequently if you want to wait until the time that you are confident in all aspects of Don's work before beginning to play the game, when you do arrive to play at a casino for the first time people will be saying that you look like Rip Van Winkle with that long beard and very sharp axe in your hand.
Last edited by BoSox; 05-21-2020 at 10:42 AM.
That was funny Bosox! If I ever grew a beard especially one that long....then I would be going to the doctors not a casino. Woman don't usually grow beards.
As far as BJA3 and waiting to read the book or not waiting to read the book, all I said was I wish I had read it before really starting my "career" last year. I didn't say I had no previous experience in casinos, nor did I say anyone should read every BJ book before playing the game. In my opinion everyone has their own way of learning and reading has always been a huge part of my life, especially when it concerns learning. I thought I made a simple statement that would be understood.
ZeeBabar, I can see from multiple other threads, that you have been in serious discussions with multiple people about you learning or not learning, from what people on the forums have tried teaching you, also you wrote about meeting an AP and being able to learn more from him because everyone learns differently. People also learn at different paces obviously.
In post#1 you wrote:
"I started playing at the end of last year and I don't even want to know how much I could've lost if it weren't for positive variance."
Cooking with cards, I am glad that you started out playing with some positive variance but in reality the amount of actual playing time experience that you have is still from a beginners perspective, meaning, current results up to this point are meaningless regarding a true case study.
One point that I would like to get across is that I believe there is at LEAST as much education needed for the player to learn in the casino itself as there is from learning from books that cannot nearly cover all the real time situations that present themselves where the player's fate of continued play may depend on a previous experience learned from an education that never ends.
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