anyone see this moron peter in the vegas challenge on the travel channel.it was a tourney with a craps,bac,dice,roulette and the card counter to see who wins the most.peter loses all his money and says it wasnt his fault because the inexperienced bj player sat down at the end and changed the cards with his amatuer play like standing on a 15 with a 8.must see TV.
Here is what is really happening with regards to Peter Ruchmann and the 'Vegas Challenge' or whatever it was called. Ruchmann is now a casino employee (and, though maybe not officially so when he participated in the production of that show, he was no doubt underway to becoming one) and, as such, has plenty of motive to propagate misleading information about how casino games work. One such myth is that bad players at a table can somehow turn the cards against you. Whether or not there is a direct profit realizable from having people believe in this particular line of thinking is unknown to me but, what is clear, is that filling the masses of hapless blackjack victims with false information about how the game works IS profitable. So, in the 'Vegas Challenge' Ruchmann set himself up as a blackjack authority and, his authority established through the oft-unquestioned medium of television, proceeded to pass off falsehoods on the unsuspecting viewers of the travel channel.
One could argue that you shouldn't believe everything you see on TV which is, of course, a valid point. But I maintain that one should not sell out to casinos and then proceed to work in devious and nefarious ways on their behalf.
You also have to realize that the television networks and especially the channels owned by Discovery will never do anything that might offend the casinos. The highest rated shows on the Discovery channels are the ones dealing with Vegas. Vegas gives them an open door and free rooms and in turn the shows are commercials for the big hotels. Those shows do not want to jeopardize the access they have.
One example of this (although it isn't television) is a recent article in Cigar Aficionado about being barred for sports betting. The writer won a couple $2,000 bets at the Hilton and was then barred. When the fact checkers from the magazine called the Hilton for comments they went berserk. PPE threatened to pull all advertising from the magazine. The magazine folded their hand immediately and now there is no mention of the Hilton or PPE in the article.
in why Ruchmann would want to convince players that a bad player can hurt you. If Ruchmann was successful in convincing a player to leave the table if a bad player is present, then that player wouldn't be playing while seeking a new table and consequently wouldn't be subject to the house edge during this "downtime."
All I know is, Ruchman is a close personal friend of Don Schlesinger. It stands to reason then that he cannot be wrong or faulted for his comments.
doesn't mean that you believe everything that they believe. Take my wife, for instance...
