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I enjoy mentoring (gratis) - after decades of full-time Professional Play.
Contact me via email.
DELETE your post.
Never post your telephone number on line in a PUBLIC forum !
You may have to come west young? Man. Or purchase a system which I can acquire for you so that you can learn on your own as most do.
Dispensing bad advice is not a charitable thing to do.
Silver Fox is the weakest Level One balanced count extant.
Why do you say that? He teaches you how to count, and how much to bet without being BARRED from a casino.
What do you recommend and more specifically, why?
I wonder what Don Schlesinger who knew Ralph has to say.
Card Counts are frequently compared via 4 measures:
Betting Correlation
Playing Efficiency
Insurance Correlation
Ease of Use
Flash, I'm aware of those measures, but not how they all relate to comparing the systems. In Usten's book, I think, the Silver Fox Blackack System compares very favorably to other systems in bet correlation and playing efficiency. I don't have the book with me now.
I have know way of knowing whether you are old or young or just a kibbitzer, but I wouldn't mind meeting you some time to discuss some of these issues.
Robbie
I am as old as dirt.
I have been a full-time Pro Player for over 20 years.
Semi-retired, I have NO need for income as such; so
I spend a great deal of time mentoring newbies who
are serious about becoming skillful. I am an altruist.
Feel free to message me, and we will converse.
By the way, there are some errors sprinkled through
the writings of Ken Uston.
however, he was a BJ pioneer.
Ralph Stricker was a very popular fellow and I was
not denigrating him, only his "Silver Fox" count.
I apologize to ROBBIE for my strident ainappropriate post.
I will stand by what I said re: The Silver Fox Count.
NOTE: The redoubtable James Grosjean declares in "Exhibit CAA" . . .
"I have never known a successful A P that used a Level One Count ."
NOTE: The redoubtable James Grosjean declares in "Exhibit CAA" . . .
"I have never known a successful A P that used a Level One Count ."
Somewhat asinine statement. Must not have had a very large circle of friends. Some of the most successful and legendary teams of all-time, including MIT, Hyland, the Greeks, and the Czechs, either used level-one counts, such as Hi-Lo, exclusively, or at one time in their histories.
Again, James's statement may be true (he didn't know any of these people), but if we are to infer from it that it isn't possible to use a level-one count and be a successful AP, the statement is patently absurd.
Don
Perhaps Grosjean is more doubtable than redoubtable.
so much for reputation ...
BJ Teams have no need for more than a Level One counts as they are, in effect, spreading enormously.
I read Grosjean's comment as being applicable to simple "lone wolf" BJ Card Counting only.
Not all BJ teams used call-ins, BPs, signals, etc. Some were simply agglomerations of individuals who used a joint bank but played individually, on their own, while the team aggregated the results.
Therefore, the argument that a level-one count might somehow be acceptable for a team approach but not for an individual simply isn't valid.
It has been repeatedly demonstrated, by me and countless other blackjack researchers, that virtually any reputable point count is sufficient to get the money, and that many other non-technical aspects of counting, such as act and ability to increase longevity, are infinitely more important than the actual count one employs.
If James doesn't agree with that, he probably stands alone among the blackjack-author community.
Don
Flash, I accept your aplogy. I have tried to explain my position in an e-mail.
Robbie
Flash, respectfully, maybe you should stop while you can. With your enthusiasim for the game It would be nice if we could talk this over and Blackjack Attack the casinos.
Robbie
I haven't been able to understand this ongoing obsession you have had with this topic and frankly I have long since given up trying to understand.
You took one man's opinion, a man that you seem to worship and declared that opinion as fact on several different BJ sites. This despite the fact that a number of members of these different sites are in fact successful AP's using a level one count. Some how you just always disallowed that fact because it didn't fit into your narrative.
It's nice to see someone's else's opinion, KewlJ. I'm sure that if I talk to or met Flash we would get along fine.
BTW, what are the other sites you are referring to?
Thanks,
Robbie
"however, he was a BJ pioneer."
He wasn't the first to do anything in BJ. He copied.
Flash, please reread, as I am sure you have already read, Don's post from 9/12/28 at 12:53.
Sincerely,
Robbie
... how you define Pioneer.
Truly, he discovered nothing at all;
but his "Million Dollar Blackjack"
was a groundbreaking book 33 years ago.
In an online chat with Al Francisco, the Pioneering
creator of organized Team Play, Al said that Ken
was not a winning player.
