We started our green-chip Craps page a week ago today, and as of this moment there are 145 posts on it. So that's one of the liveliest pages on BJ21. If you are interested in playing craps, and especially if you are a skillful crapshooter, you are invited to check out green chip and join in the discussion.
Stanford Wong
Is Frank Scoblete a member of your Green Chip Craps page?
In The Complete Idiot's Guide To Gambling Like a Pro (3rd Edition) you did the section on blackjack. Susan Spector, author of Works 3 Para Windows, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Works for Windows,was your co-author. People that bought books by her also bought books by these people:
Frank Scoblete
Richard D. Harroch
Basil Nestor
Jerry L. Patterson
Bob Sehlinger
Did you do any other chapters for this book and if so, which ones? Is it a good book? And how did you get into doing a book with Susan?
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0028644859/blackjackpro
In The Complete Idiot's Guide To Gambling Like a Pro (3rd Edition) you did the section on blackjack. Susan Spector, author of Works 3 Para Windows, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Works for Windows,was your co-author. Did you do any other chapters for this book and if so, which ones? Is it a good book? And how did you get into doing a book with Susan?
Susan contacted me to see if I would be the technical editor for a book she had contracted to write. She is a professional writer, not a professional gambler, and wanted to be sure her book was correct on all the details. I agreed to read over her manuscript and point out things that needed correcting. After the project was completed, Susan and her publisher thought that my input had been so major that they insisted on listing me as co-author. I tried to talk them out of it, but they prevailed. I did not actually write any of the chapters, but I suggested improvements for almost every chapter. It's a good book for beginners.
Stanford Wong
Looks like you gave them a 110% effort and they wanted to thank you for it. Kind of back handed the way the used your name to give the book more of a draw. My fave beginner book is The New Gambler's Bible by Arthur S. Reber and Mason Malmuth. Reber is a professor of psychology at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Malmuth is Malmuth. I think the next time I pick up a book at Amazon I'll it pick up.
PS I got told off by "DeepNet Dan" for attacking you here at BJ21 re the dice thingie while discussing his "Golden Years Blackjack Method." I hope you don't feel that I have attacked you. You are the "Unsinkable Stanford Wong" and your friendship is more important to me than blackjack, craps, or any other game, physical, metal, or otherwise, imagined or perceived. You and Arnold are Thorp's main writer/protege's and have earned your respect.
I have never said that "Golden Years" doesn't work, nor that you can't roll an extra 7 to change Craps into a posEV game. I like how he put the two together, like a ham and cheese sandwich. You can't take a bite out of one without getting the other in your mouth. Clever? What I AM saying is that Golden Years works, but at a rate that is inferior to High Low (as per the creators own words). It SHOULD be easier to learn, but it SHOULD NOT cost you $700 or what ever when High Low is public domain. That is my only qualm with it.
I feel to become a dice expert, you would have to become as skilled as a top level dart player is. Imagine throwing a dart into the bullseye time after time after time. Now imagine throwing two darts into that same bullseye time and time again. Anyone can read about it in Jerry Patterson's Blackjack: A Winner's Handbook. "Dice setting," etc. Clocking Roulette wheels: all of the VooDoo (?) is covered there for $10.47.
