Please, please, please put 6to5 blackjack in your e-mail signature

Please follow my suggestion on the 6to5blackjack.org website, and use your e-mail signature to provide a link to 6to5blackjack.org (or any article which exposes 6to5blackjack if you prefer eg the "games to avoid" article here at bj21), and encourage the reader to do the same. That list bit is crucial.
"Viral" marketing is an enormously powerful marketing tool that self-replicates traffic. This is the only hope we have of reaching the masses-the other ways are just too expensive to be practical. Here is an example, by all means use your own:

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Your money won't thrive with 6/5-
check out the great blackjack ripoff at:
http://www.blackjack6to5.org
~~Please copy this signature and spread the word
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If you find using the signature intrusive, please consider using it for only a short period so that all of your main contacts receive the mail, or use the sig for a secondary mail account.

The link you provided: http://www.blackjack6to5.org/ isn't correct. The correct link is: http://www.6to5blackjack.org/ I can understand your error, but not the error by the webmaster of the site. The following is copy from the site:

"3) Use your e-mail signature to spread the word through the web. Make it simple and pithy eg "Your money won't thrive with 6/5-check out the great blackjack ripoff at http://www.blackjack6to5.org". If possible encourage others to use the same sig."
Ask the webmaster to correct that... else who will believe what he/she says about anything :-)

"4) Webmasters, please provide a link to this site."
I'll do that. Will place a link from my site on the links page: http://www.ampmracing.com/links.html

Gary

Crap! No wonder it wasn't working.
I'm a bit dyslexic and muck up urls sometimes. Thanx for sorting this out Pro.
I am the webmaster btw.

After reading several posts below, seems there is much willingness and sincere motivation from players to get the word out (advertise) about 6/5 Blackjack. Problem: Land Real Estate, Cyber Real Estate, Land Ad Agencies, and Cyber Ad Agencies that have any relationship at all with casinos won't accept anti-6/5 adverts.

Well, the largest and most successful cyber advertisement medium is hands down Google's AdWords. Google is not in the back pocket of Vegas and will accept anti 6/5 ads.

Google's AdWords appear on about 75% of all related sites via webmasters publishing AdSense. For those not familiar with AdWords, the ads update in real time and do not require any modification from webmasters. So any ad related to any category (including blackjack) running will almost instantly appear on at least 75% of related sites.

My suggestion:
1) You, Al Rogers (bj21/sharpsportsbetting) or anyone else with a large following build a non-commercialized (non-profit) web page dedicated only to fighting 6/5 blackjack. (no links to anything else) You might consider adding a credits page that would list the donors if they want to be listed, but no advertising or hot links.

2) Take donations for an ad budget.

3) Place an ad on Google's AdWords program and in a matter of hours you will have more exposure than any other campaign could hope for.

The ad would instantly appear on blackjack sites, gambling related sites, travel sites, etc. that has the AdSense code embeded in the source of their page.

Just make sure whoever is accepting the ad donations is accountable and keeps the donors advised at regular intervals. This will not take a huge ad budget. I would guess less than $500 per month will get you the number one ad.

Don't confuse AdWords with Pay Per Click. AdWords appear on both Google search results and all websites (tens of thousands) using AdSense. Pay Per Click only appears on search results pages.

I would be willing to donate money to this cause. I would also be willing to donate the web space and bandwidth on one of my servers if needed.

That's my opinion of how to fight back against 6/5 Blackjack on the 'Net most effectively.

There is also IP blasting for quick results... but that's not exactly ethical. Not illegal, but not something I would suggest.

Gary

PS... I didn't know you had a new website... but there's lots I don't know. No offense intended to the webmaster:)

The fight against 6-5 blackjack is admirable, but I would like to know what you hope to accomplish with this campaign. Let me start by saying that most people who visit Vegas don't care what the odds are against them, to put it bluntly they're morons (at least when it comes to gamgling) and their motivation for going there in the first place is to have fun get drunk and lose money, so 1% isn't going to affect their gambling decisions.

But getting back to the question "what do you hope to accomplish?" If you are successful in getting rid of 6-5 blackjack, do you think that the games that pop up in their place will be any better for card counters? Will they offer single deck with 3-2 and playable rules? I doubt it, their replacements will be ripoff scams too. And while we're at it, why not get rid of all ripoff wagers... field bets, double 0 roulette, you get the idea.

Again I don't like 6-5 bj and would like to see the game eliminated, but it looks to me that you're going to spend a lot of money and end up with zero gain for it. Just my humble opinion.

The fight against 6-5 blackjack is admirable, but I would like to know what you hope to accomplish with this campaign. Let me start by saying that most people who visit Vegas don't care what the odds are against them, to put it bluntly they're morons (at least when it comes to gamgling) and their motivation for going there in the first place is to have fun get drunk and lose money, so 1% isn't going to affect their gambling decisions.

Most people who visit Vegas may not care what the odds are against them. However, that still leaves a significant number of people who do care. If we can reach 10% of the casino population who then stop playing 6/5 BJ, then it will cost the casinos millions of dollars and they will junk the game.
Moreover, high-rollers generally speaking do care, or at least care more about the odds against them. And, of course, blackjack players by definition are more likely to care about the odds or they wouldn't be playing the game which traditionally offers the best deal to the player. They may not have a very sophisticated understanding of what the odds are, which is where we come in.

Again I don't like 6-5 bj and would like to see the game eliminated, but it looks to me that you're going to spend a lot of money and end up with zero gain for it. Just my humble opinion.

I don't think that is neccessary. Website activism is inexpensive. There are other media outlets with no love for the casinos.

Except you guys :-).

I've argued this before and here I go again. I think that the majority of people who get hoodwinked by 6/5 blackjack are trying to make a smart decision. They are, unfortunately, working from an incomplete set of facts. Many recreational players have heard sometime, somewhere that single deck blackjack is superior to multi-deck blackjack. Perhaps they have played a little eight-deck at a casino back home. Now, they see a juicy single deck game paying a whopping 6/5 on blackjacks, how can they lose?

The casino exec who came up with 6/5 blackjack was brilliant. Most changes to the game are met with mistrust. More and more decks, the public knows it can't be good. Robots shuffling? Damn things must cheat. But single deck blackjack on the strip again? Ahhhh the good old days. That six to five thing doesn't sound that great but I don't usually get that many blackjacks anyway. Deal me in.

The casinos have tapped into blackjack lore here. Single deck is better. New blackjack lore must be created. It's not going to happen by itself and it's not going to happen overnight.

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