I just purchased that Star Wars Trilogy on DVD. No where on the packaging did it indiciate system requirements (Canada - Best Buy). I cannot view the easter eggs on my Mac. Who wants to sue Lucasfulm?
This post is mostly bunk. If your ex-wife was really a blackjack dealer, she was a truly clueless one.
They assume a random distribution of the cards at shuffle. This is so far from the truth it is unreal. Each casino has a different way to shuffle the shoe. It does redistribute the cards, but it is not at all random.
Since casino has its own shuffle any strategy will be casino-specific. The distribution of high and low cards gets slowly shifted at each shuffle. At the beginning of the day every deck is in a pre-set order. Each shuffle modifies that order in a predictable way. If you have a card counting strategy, it would be best to include, as part of your strategy, the number of times a shoe has been shuffled. When they break open new decks of cards, the shuffle count starts anew.
First off: shuffle tracking and card counting are two separate matters. Shuffle tracking identifies high and low card slugs, by counting the show, and then tracks those slugs through the shuffle in order to take advantage of them. Card counting is a mathematical system to keep track of how many high/low/neutral cards have come out of the shoe (depending on the system). Then, using this running count and the remainder of cards left in the shoe a card counter can determine the advantage at that moment, wheter for the player or house, and adjust his betting strategy. When a dealer shuffle and a new shoe begins, all of the cards have been put back in, and the count starts again. It doesn't matter how many times, or what way this deck has been shuffled.
Any experienced dealer will tell you that a shoe has a "flow" to it. The shoe will either be rewarding the house or the players. When the dealer shuffles the cards, they can either shuffle in a way that generally preserves the flow or shuffle in a way that generally reverses the flow. This does not work 100% of the time, but it does work.
Really, and what is exactly this flow? A slug of high cards, or is it just a bunch of good Karma on the cards? How exactly does this dealer ex-wife of yours shuffle cards in order to maintain "the flow". I, and many other gaming professionals, would be very interested to learn more about maintaining "the flow" of a shoe during a blackjack shuffle.
The dealer cannot target a particular player, but they can target the table as a whole.
Again, I would really like to learn this trick. I have yet so any demonstatable techniques for a dealer to target a table so that they all lose. Does she summon the goddess Rita who will smite all these nasty players, or does she just send some bad Karma their way?
Sorry if I am so sarcastic, but these are just ridiculous old wives tales, akin to if she floats, shes a witch!!!
Try this system but use 2-7 as +1, 7,8,9 as neutral and 10-A as -1. When you have a signifcantly higher count you are playing at an advantage.
This is know as the Hi/low count and is the most effective system, due to it's simplicity.
Cheating at a casino is circumventing the rules of the
system in order to manipulate the outcome of said system. Its the same thing as
going to a bank with a gun and taking money out by force instead of using your
ATM card. Going by this example, you would consider bank robbery a matter to be handled by the bank?
Wheteher or not you agree with the system, theft is theft.
Counting cards is quite possible with multiple decks. Using a basic plus/minus system you can gain quite an advantage over a 6 or 8 deck shoe.
For a casino that uses and 8 deck shoe (+.58% H/A) and allows doubles after splitting (-.14% H/A) you are playing a game with a.44% house advantage. If you play perfect basic strategy with no deviations you reduce the house advantage to 0.
While playing this shoe, if you use the high/low count system, and have a true count of +2 you are actually playing at a.5% PLAYERS advantage. While.5% doesn't sound lilke much, this is slightly more of an advantage than the house usually has. If you are using a 5 unit bet spread you can actually beat the house.
There are thousands of books on counting out there, I suggest that you check out a few and see what can really be done.
Actually, yes we do. There are continous shuffles installed on most of the BJ tables in the casino I work in. I work as a supervisor, and believe me, these things completely eliminate any worry of patrons counting cards. After every hand, the cards that were used are loaded back into the machine and reshuffled. The machine uses five decks of cards, and although the cards just loaded will not be in the next hand dealt, they may be used in the one after. Therefore, it is basically an endless shoe, and makes it impossible to get and accurate count!
So far it has only happened once, but I was disturbed numerous times by the same person in a movie theatre. He happened to be sitting right in front of me, and answered his phone a total of 3 times, after it ringing loudly. The first time he was asked politely to turn it off, the second time he was told to turn the f***ing thing off, or it would be broken. The third time it was broken.
People who think that letting your battery run out is a taboo are the least of my concern. Those who feel that they can interrupt anyone anyplace with their meaningless conversations are my concern. Quite simply, people need to stop and realize that they don't need to be tethered 24/7.
Just my $0.02
Any time of the day or night? Walk by Jane & Finch at about 3am on a Friday night. Count the crack dealers, crackheads, and hookers (oh my!). Now, was it like this 20, 10, or even 5 years ago?
Think about that.
I can understand how publishing HP5 as an e-bok will attract attention to a somewhat ignored industry. However, my wife received all 4 HP books as a wedding present, which she absolutely loves. I couldn't image telling her that she can only read the latest version on an e-book. After spending at least $300US to buy a reader. I don't think that would revitalize the e-book industry, just alienate a loyal fanbase.
Just my 2 cents.
Cheers!
Well, since I FFWD through ALL the ads when I record a program, will this device decide that I don't like anything and stop showing me ads?
I don't shop through MSN or any subsiduaries, and when online information is collected from me, I try to make it as bogus as possible. When the time comes for those optional surveys, I suddenly become an 88 year-old who is concerned only with Martha Stewart.
In brick and mortar stores all my payments are done with cash. The information that I give them there is falsified as well.
Remember, they can only learn as much about you as you let the.
I work in a Canadian casino as a table games dealer. By our provincial laws, ID must be provided for cash transactions of $10,000.00 or any small transactions totalling this amount. Even in a face-to-face enviroment, money laundering takes place. I regularly deal in out VIP room and see hundreds of thousands of dollars "washed" nightly. If it is this easy in a physical enviroment, it becomes even easier in an online casino. I do agree that some restrictions should be placed on these services. The regular online ganbler DOES NOT go through hundreds of thousands of dollars in short periods of time. Even if it honest, you should be prepared for a bit of a hassle when transferring signifigantly large portions of currency online. As for the casinos themselves, they are already fairly regulated, and although it will be a hassle, they should be prepared to deal with stronger security measures. After all, if it prevents terrorist acts like the WTC from happening, isn't it worth it?
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The great flannelled one has said many times that there will be no Eps. 7,8,9. Most recently here:e orge_Lucas_at_Media_QA_91615.asp
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I just purchased that Star Wars Trilogy on DVD. No where on the packaging did it indiciate system requirements (Canada - Best Buy). I cannot view the easter eggs on my Mac. Who wants to sue Lucasfulm?
This post is mostly bunk. If your ex-wife was really a blackjack dealer, she was a truly clueless one.
They assume a random distribution of the cards at shuffle. This is so far from the truth it is unreal. Each casino has a different way to shuffle the shoe. It does redistribute the cards, but it is not at all random. Since casino has its own shuffle any strategy will be casino-specific. The distribution of high and low cards gets slowly shifted at each shuffle. At the beginning of the day every deck is in a pre-set order. Each shuffle modifies that order in a predictable way. If you have a card counting strategy, it would be best to include, as part of your strategy, the number of times a shoe has been shuffled. When they break open new decks of cards, the shuffle count starts anew.
First off: shuffle tracking and card counting are two separate matters. Shuffle tracking identifies high and low card slugs, by counting the show, and then tracks those slugs through the shuffle in order to take advantage of them. Card counting is a mathematical system to keep track of how many high/low/neutral cards have come out of the shoe (depending on the system). Then, using this running count and the remainder of cards left in the shoe a card counter can determine the advantage at that moment, wheter for the player or house, and adjust his betting strategy. When a dealer shuffle and a new shoe begins, all of the cards have been put back in, and the count starts again. It doesn't matter how many times, or what way this deck has been shuffled.
Any experienced dealer will tell you that a shoe has a "flow" to it. The shoe will either be rewarding the house or the players. When the dealer shuffles the cards, they can either shuffle in a way that generally preserves the flow or shuffle in a way that generally reverses the flow. This does not work 100% of the time, but it does work.
Really, and what is exactly this flow? A slug of high cards, or is it just a bunch of good Karma on the cards? How exactly does this dealer ex-wife of yours shuffle cards in order to maintain "the flow". I, and many other gaming professionals, would be very interested to learn more about maintaining "the flow" of a shoe during a blackjack shuffle.
The dealer cannot target a particular player, but they can target the table as a whole.
Again, I would really like to learn this trick. I have yet so any demonstatable techniques for a dealer to target a table so that they all lose. Does she summon the goddess Rita who will smite all these nasty players, or does she just send some bad Karma their way?
Sorry if I am so sarcastic, but these are just ridiculous old wives tales, akin to if she floats, shes a witch!!!
Try this system but use 2-7 as +1, 7,8,9 as neutral and 10-A as -1. When you have a signifcantly higher count you are playing at an advantage.
This is know as the Hi/low count and is the most effective system, due to it's simplicity.
Cheating at a casino is circumventing the rules of the system in order to manipulate the outcome of said system. Its the same thing as going to a bank with a gun and taking money out by force instead of using your ATM card. Going by this example, you would consider bank robbery a matter to be handled by the bank?
Wheteher or not you agree with the system, theft is theft.
Counting cards is quite possible with multiple decks. Using a basic plus/minus system you can gain quite an advantage over a 6 or 8 deck shoe. .44% house advantage. If you play perfect basic strategy with no deviations you reduce the house advantage to 0.
.5% PLAYERS advantage. While .5% doesn't sound lilke much, this is slightly more of an advantage than the house usually has. If you are using a 5 unit bet spread you can actually beat the house.
For a casino that uses and 8 deck shoe (+.58% H/A) and allows doubles after splitting (-.14% H/A) you are playing a game with a
While playing this shoe, if you use the high/low count system, and have a true count of +2 you are actually playing at a
There are thousands of books on counting out there, I suggest that you check out a few and see what can really be done.
Actually, yes we do. There are continous shuffles installed on most of the BJ tables in the casino I work in. I work as a supervisor, and believe me, these things completely eliminate any worry of patrons counting cards. After every hand, the cards that were used are loaded back into the machine and reshuffled. The machine uses five decks of cards, and although the cards just loaded will not be in the next hand dealt, they may be used in the one after. Therefore, it is basically an endless shoe, and makes it impossible to get and accurate count!
So far it has only happened once, but I was disturbed numerous times by the same person in a movie theatre. He happened to be sitting right in front of me, and answered his phone a total of 3 times, after it ringing loudly. The first time he was asked politely to turn it off, the second time he was told to turn the f***ing thing off, or it would be broken. The third time it was broken.
People who think that letting your battery run out is a taboo are the least of my concern. Those who feel that they can interrupt anyone anyplace with their meaningless conversations are my concern. Quite simply, people need to stop and realize that they don't need to be tethered 24/7.
Just my $0.02
Any time of the day or night? Walk by Jane & Finch at about 3am on a Friday night. Count the crack dealers, crackheads, and hookers (oh my!). Now, was it like this 20, 10, or even 5 years ago? Think about that.
I can understand how publishing HP5 as an e-bok will attract attention to a somewhat ignored industry. However, my wife received all 4 HP books as a wedding present, which she absolutely loves. I couldn't image telling her that she can only read the latest version on an e-book. After spending at least $300US to buy a reader. I don't think that would revitalize the e-book industry, just alienate a loyal fanbase. Just my 2 cents. Cheers!
Well, since I FFWD through ALL the ads when I record a program, will this device decide that I don't like anything and stop showing me ads? I don't shop through MSN or any subsiduaries, and when online information is collected from me, I try to make it as bogus as possible. When the time comes for those optional surveys, I suddenly become an 88 year-old who is concerned only with Martha Stewart. In brick and mortar stores all my payments are done with cash. The information that I give them there is falsified as well. Remember, they can only learn as much about you as you let the.
I work in a Canadian casino as a table games dealer. By our provincial laws, ID must be provided for cash transactions of $10,000.00 or any small transactions totalling this amount. Even in a face-to-face enviroment, money laundering takes place. I regularly deal in out VIP room and see hundreds of thousands of dollars "washed" nightly. If it is this easy in a physical enviroment, it becomes even easier in an online casino. I do agree that some restrictions should be placed on these services. The regular online ganbler DOES NOT go through hundreds of thousands of dollars in short periods of time. Even if it honest, you should be prepared for a bit of a hassle when transferring signifigantly large portions of currency online. As for the casinos themselves, they are already fairly regulated, and although it will be a hassle, they should be prepared to deal with stronger security measures. After all, if it prevents terrorist acts like the WTC from happening, isn't it worth it?