pychic gamblers?

On ET they are talking about Pychics for police, etc., why not for gambling? Do u believe in them?

You will almost certainly get a lot of sarcastic answers, if any. I'll try and answer this as seriously as possible.

First, there is no evidence in the modern era, where scientific testing has been properly developed, to suggest that there is anything to psychic phenomena. No one has been able to demonstrate under controlled conditions any psychic ability to determine which card is coming out of the shoe next, which spots will appear on the dice, or what pocket the roulette ball will fall into.

There has been an awful lot of bullshit in the media lately about psychics helping the police and "remote viewers" working for the CIA. This suggests a break with the obviously bizarre charlatanism associated with psychic phenomena-mediums and so on, and gives these things a veneer of government-approved veneer respectability. In fact, it is simply more of the same given a modern twist for added credibility, classic magician's misdirection. Any competent magician with an understanding of psychology could replicate any recorded feats recorded by said individuals. Government approval for psychic schemes of whatever hue usually just indicates the population of government officials contain as many gullable marks as the rest of society. Even if you were unwise enough to take the claims of remote viewers et al at face value, then it wouldn't help you much for gambling purposes as even by their own limited standards, the predictions of such individuals are vague and non-specific.

The lack of any decent scientific hypothesis which could accompany said psychich theories means you can safely dismiss 99.9% of all the claims of individuals working in this area.

I say 99.9% because just occassionally, and usually by accident, someone stumbles across something of scientific value by accident. Certain types of faith healing work, for example, because the believer has a psychological or partly psychological ailment which can be addressed if they believe they have been cured. Such effects are measurable, indeed trivially so, often used by doctors when prescribing placebos for example.

Sometimes people read tarot cards and the like, and instead of tapping into something supernatural, stumble across subconscious information about themselves, or gain by the simple cathartic process of talking about their problems in life. That can be beneficial. However, such effects are usually extremely limited and not exploitable for gambling purposes.

I suppose if you researched this thoroughly it is possible you could harness some apparently "psychic" powers for gambling purposes. For example, if a magician exposes a card during a riffle for a fraction of a second longer during a riffle, the mind unconsciously records the card while the conscious mind cannot pick up on it visually. The first card you think of after this trick has been performed will be the card the magician exposes for that fraction of a second extra. This is a staple "mind-control" trick of magicians. In theory you might be able to do something similar in a casino, this idea appears in Wong's "Blackjack Secrets". Even here, where there is a rational scientific theory behind the whole thing, it is very difficult to exploit as a practical matter in a casino.

Basically yes. European baccarat allows you to make some playing decisions, or is not banked by the house, which can allow you to make a profit in the same way it is possible to make money at poker, by exploiting vulnerabilities in your opponent's play.

In much of Europe, only US-style baccarat (known as "Punto Banco") is offered. This is much less beatable, though it is possible using some external methods analagous to shuffle-tracking or front-loading at blackjack. It is theoretically possible to make money from card-counting also, but this is an extraordinarily difficult thing to do in practice.

Better to continue this on the OG page if you want to respond, since this is off-topic here.

GBV gave an excellent answer to Mr. Lee's question. I like the following comment about psychics. The convention of Psychics and Seers to be held here at the Sheraton Hotel next weekend has been called off due to unforeseen circumstances.

There has been an awful lot of bullshit in the media lately about psychics helping the police and "remote viewers" working for the CIA. This suggests a break with the obviously bizarre charlatanism associated with psychic phenomena-mediums and so on, and gives these things a veneer of government-approved veneer respectability. In fact, it is simply more of the same given a modern twist for added credibility, classic magician's misdirection. Any competent magician with an understanding of psychology could replicate any recorded feats recorded by said individuals. Government approval for psychic schemes of whatever hue usually just indicates the population of government officials contain as many gullable marks as the rest of society. Even if you were unwise enough to take the claims of remote viewers et al at face value, then it wouldn't help you much for gambling purposes as even by their own limited standards, the predictions of such individuals are vague and non-specific.

There is a TV program here in the states where a math professor helps the FBI solve crimes using math. In last Friday's episode involved a psychic who led the police to a crime scene and would continue "helping" throughout the investigation if the FBI would acknowledge him so he could write about it in his book. Needless to say the professor was extremely agitated about the very thought of using such illogical methods.