Anyone have any thoughts on the BJ Science Seminar Series? I saw a thread about it on Advantage Player, and it piqued my interest. They're coming to LA next weekend, and I'd like to go if it's the real deal. They claim on the website that the seminar goes beyond the regular hi-lo and shuffle tracking techniques. Think it's worth the $800? Any info or advice is appreciated!
Thanks,
Mike
Anything they would be teaching, you could learn yourself out of a book or internet article. Plus I wouldn't want to show my face around a buch of strangers who all know I'm learning to count cards.
MC
They don't seem to be selling misinformation. Most of us are self-taught and spent only a few hundred dollars on our education, mostly on books. If you are the type of personality who benefits greatly from a formal educational enviroment, this might be worth it, if the guys really know their stuff. Its a lot of money, but that is the market rate for tuition/consultants.
Personally, I think you'd be better off browsing through the better books on the subject and spending your money practicing at the tables, but I'm not dismissing this out of hand.
have you even bothered to join greenchip? No matter how qualified these guys are there are likely people of infinitely more expertise on this site as well as an archive full of years of great posts. A seminar is a fast paced way of learning and you would likely need a very good foundation in order to derive much benifit from it. Otherwise you would be spending $800 to have them review rather elementary material for you.
...But I suspect the type of people who benefit most from GC are those who benefit most from the read-lots-of-books-and-practice approach. Don't get me wrong, there is more useful info in the GC archives than there is likely to be on this or any other course, however, it is going to be hard to digest it if you are the type of person who likes to obtain information in the traditional formatted chronological manner with reference to expert opinion on the fine details.
If you are the kind of stream-of-consciousness random access learner I am, then save yourself $787 and get GC.
Otherwise you would be spending $800 to have them review rather elementary material for you.
One reason I didn't dismiss this out of hand was that they appeared to be teaching the advanced stuff as well as the meat and potatoes of card counting. You won't learn about sequencing for example from GC, the information just isn't there. Of course, its quite possible they may be teaching it badly, in which case the course has negative value.
