I'm dead serious about AP play. Nothing else I rather do. I have an inquisitive mind, good work ethic, lot of patience...etc (ok size BR for newbie). I need a "real" mentor, someone who possess the concrete quality of a good teacher. Please don't let your hard gained knowledge goes to waste, or worse yet, die with you. If you're interest, please contact me: InQuiry_1@yahoo.com
Some of you readers might laugh or cry :)
I'm gonna become a advantage player ev +
there is a course on this site. it makes cents ;) sense not scents.
i figure if i have bankroll, plus other tricks up my sleave, all is well.
the economy is bad for some= cheap labour
let me know how you make out..we could challenge each other?
cya
You have to actually go out and play the game and hope a veteran/older guy sees room for improvement in you and is willing to confront you inside a casino. Then from there you just absorb all the info and apply in your progression towards being a true AP. As well as have a willingness to be criticized along the way. I'm currently on that path, as i'm not a true AP yet, I get back to you on the hours needed once I progress from from blackjack/Spanish 21.
in finding a mentor... I can't think of any reason taking a pupil so...
The fed-up-BJTraveller sez: "Good Luck in finding a mentor... I can't think of any reason taking a pupil so... "
Why not? Please do tell us your stories, and why you're fed up with your students.
create competitors?
Why would someone need to be "fed up" with students in order to not want a pupil? Your question presupposes that the natural state is to desire a pupil and that it would take some factor (such as being "fed up") to change this.
A better question would be "why would someone want to volunteer their time and energy to teach someone else"? Think like an AP when you answer this. AP's do things that bring them a benefit and do not do things that don't bring them a benefit.
The natural state is that a student needs to have something to offer the teacher before they will get instruction. In the academic setting, this is usually money (most teachers get paid). That might motivate some AP teachers as well. Information would be something else of value that a student could provide an AP teacher, as would their service on a team, etc.
Why did I ask Bjtraveller the question in the first place? Hmm--- my curiosity got the better of me, & I had to ask him. Won't you ask him the curious question if you saw the Academy's advertisement like the one below?
Bjtraveller & a pardner have opened an Academy for teaching students in how to "invest". Recently Bjtraveller's "Investment" Academy advertises as follows:
"BJ Classes: March 27, 2012 through April 3, 2012
Basic BJ
2 hours
Tuition US$168.89
Intermediate BJ
3 hours
Tuition US$337.77"
"You're asking the wrong question
A better question would be "why would someone want to volunteer their time and energy to teach someone else"? Think like an AP when you answer this. AP's do things that bring them a benefit and do not do things that don't bring them a benefit.
The natural state is that a student needs to have something to offer the teacher before they will get instruction. In the academic setting, this is usually money (most teachers get paid). That might motivate some AP teachers as well. Information would be something else of value that a student could provide an AP teacher, as would their service on a team, etc.
Cougfan commented:
Why would someone need to be "fed up" with students in order to not want a pupil? Your question presupposes that the natural state is to desire a pupil and that it would take some factor (such as being "fed up") to change this.
Bjtraveller replied:
"Why
create competitors? "
To help the needy or to eliminate the competitors, that's a tough decision to make for me personally. Teaching can mean saving a life. If you can save a jumper/loser from killing himself from Tropicana's parking deck, then you may think it's worthwhile to teach a loser/student how to win in blackjack.
not offered by me. It was offered by my blog manager who is a good counter. It may be justified for him teaching as he has lower opportunity cost than me.
Teaching a degenerate gamblers skill in gambling is different from saving a life from a storm. Most degenerate gamblers can't be an AP and no one forces them to gamble. I did offer classes for APs before trying to find counters for me playing casinos I have been barred. I did that because I don't have good games on hand. When i have other better things to do, I don't spend time teaching... and I won't waste time og degenerate gamblers.
Didn't you continually post countless questions on the Green Chip pages in the past few months, only to be told by almost everyone that you needed to study the books on AP play? And yet, you continued to do so.
Finally, you posted a farewell note, "Curiosity Kills the Cat", and were not seen on the page again. Now, all at once, it's the same old game, albeit on the free page.
If you have loads of questions, the first place to look for answers will be the books written by the prolific authors of the game. In other words, quit pestering everyone and do some homework on your own.
JMO,
drumz1
Aren't your indirectly create competitors by offering advise, opinion, etc? If one truly does not want to create any competitor, wouldn't one be living, playing, and dying in obscurity?
Just my take on the "Dog Eat Dog" world.
books and columns... I write books because I enjoy writing... I don't enjoy teaching...
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