"The Ghost"

A few days ago I was in a Strip Casino and observed a guy walking around watching the table games. He was 6'4" to 6'5", 200 lbs., short brown hair and about 45 or so. It wasn't very much later and I was barred, along with a couple of other dudes. I was later informed by an associate that this guy was known as "The Ghost". Does anyone know this guy's real name and who he works for????? I would like to send him a message as he is cutting into my profits. It's not as though the casinos can't afford to loose a few dollars to me as they are taking so much from the non-advantage players.

You cannot bet like a computer by the true count and hope that you will get away in casino. It is impossible to beat the casino game if you strictly bet by the count. They wouldn�t let you! The casino use a very simple method to figure you out and that method was introduced by the one of the brightest minds in blackjack that was the greatest Peter Griffin.

That method is the Bet Average. They will take 10 of your bets when the count is positive and 10 bets when the counts is negative and average them out. Then compare the two numbers. If your average bet during the positive is greater then the average bet during the negative you are labeled to be a card counter and if you continue to win they will probably back you off.

Now, here you�ve got to be very careful and if you observe that they are watching you and if you are in some profit, LEAVE with the profit. If they suspect you to be a card counter but not winning much at the moment they probably will not bother you yet until you get into a negative standard deviation and as soon as you are in red they will 100% ban you at that point.

They don�t even have to get a precise count. An approximation is sufficient. If the deck or the shoe appears to be on the positive side they take samples of your bets and when it looks that the deck or the shoe is on negative side they do the same. It�s a classic!

Those card counter catchers are the lowest of the low from the backwoods of the back!

I personally know one guy in Vegas that use to play in the past and he was the biggest IDIOT of all times that wasn�t even able to figure a simple TC conversion for a single deck. A big LOSER! Now, this type of people when they lose their bankroll turn around an some of them go to work for casinos. Those are the bankrupt card counters.

However, going back to your problem, you can also do the same: When the deck or shoe appears to swing on positive you can bet more by parlaying if you have won the previous hand. If you lost but the count is still positive just flat bet.

Puiu

I know of a hole card player fitting that description but never heard him called the Ghost.

just ask ML

A few days ago I was in a Strip Casino and observed a guy walking around watching the table games. He was 6'4" to 6'5", 200 lbs., short brown hair and about 45 or so. It wasn't very much later and I was barred, along with a couple of other dudes. I was later informed by an associate that this guy was known as "The Ghost".

Are you sure you didn't run across "The Phantom"? It is possible your friend mistook the two names or perhaps misremembered. At any rate, I've never heard of "The Ghost" but if you ran afoul of The Phantom, you've got big problems.

I have posted I was wrong about the frequency of games talented people could exploit. You folks never even try to tell the truth, do you?

$5000 SCORE blackjack I play at will.

1. You're not too bright. Who would post something so valuable on such a public forum?

2. You're lazy. Why not play it constantly, or as much as your stamina will allow? If you can play it at will it wouldn't be too long before you could purchase this site and about anything else you wished.

The "real" truth is you're one of many who've tasted a little success and will eventually end up back where you started if your lucky. If you're not lucky you'll end up on the sidewalk in NLV.

I'm not impressed and I doubt if any others here are either. That's not an invitation to leave because the laughs you provide are enjoyable.

"$5000 SCORE blackjack I play at will" , you say.

I don't really think you know what you're talking about. Let's see : You have the definition of SCORE wrong -- look it up. Then play at will is completely false, as conditions go, unless you play against your nine year old. As to blackjack, some of us happened to know from the beginning that it was not 21 that JM was talking about -- look it up.

I kinda doubt you know what $5000 means either...

"1. You're not too bright. Who would post something so valuable on such a public forum? "
no, you are not too bright which is why i can post it and not worry about you ever having the skills to horn in

"2. You're lazy. Why not play it constantly, or as much as your stamina will allow? If you can play it at will it wouldn't be too long before you could purchase this site and about anything else you wished."
true I am lazy. BTW, you know in the REAL WORLD there is heat, table limits.

"The "real" truth is you're one of many who've tasted a little success and will eventually end up back where you started if your lucky. If you're not lucky you'll end up on the sidewalk in NLV."
not possible ... no matter how lazy and irresponsible i am.

"I'm not impressed and I doubt if any others here are either. That's not an invitation to leave because the laughs you provide are enjoyable." not trying to impress you and i'm the one laughing

the real world, just like ML.

You seem to look up to JM. If he were to read your post, he would laugh just as I am right now.

Cyrus -

You are way off!!! Please try to learn more about advantage play.

It could very well be. Does anyone know this "Phantom" and who he works for??? I do know this, he was directly responsible for be being backed off cause after he observed me playing he went to a house phone and called someone. It was just minutes later that I was shown the door.

The SCORE is not what the Mexican has in mind -- it's something else, as JM also wrote. While that el Norteno can find a game that allows such an "hourly rate" at will is an empty boast.

The Mexican's excuse is that he speaks Spanish better than English. What's your excuse, amigos, the need to brag? Save that for amateur night.

Peek readers of the turn aces and tens differently type. I have played such a game at the Palms recently with no heat. Every damn ten and ace had banger wear marks just as I described in Blackjack Therapy.

Peek readers at the Cal-Neva in Reno: dealers are instructed to pullin only the bottom card to put into the peek reader. With sharp eyes fully 80% of the dealers flash the hole card with every ten or ace up on a certain pit on a certain shift. They would be better off not trying to counter banger play or even go back to regular peeking. Regardless of this every deck had readable banger marks on that shift regularly, even though aces and tens could not be distinquished. This still left Wong's warp strategy applicable. First card strategy was justr reduced to knowing an ace or a ten was going to be one of the first two cards. The wear marks come from sliding the ace or ten forward.

So get out your calculator and/or spreadsheet and your copy of Grossjean's book and do the math. The profits are well above 9% in either case!

Try reading what I write before responding, if you please. It has become a habit with you, responding to imaginary posts.

I gave two situations where at will was at least possible before I posted this. That is far from responding to an "immaginary post."

By the time that you realize that I actually responed to your post, ML will realize he mixed mean and populations :-0!

Such games are far from as rare as you think.

He is related to a cage worker at the California Club. His agenda is to work against advantage players for their lack of faith in that such players depend upon there being no causal control of random events. Thus such players mock God's ability to control "even the fall of the littlest sparrow," etc.

He is known to hang around GBC, in the past, and asked to leave by Howard. Possible real AKAs are Theadore Kidwell, or Thomas Grimes. He also was once involved in a scam with Griffin to force him to work for them and resisted. One associate of ZenGrifter's reportedly also saw him take part, far less dressed up, in a street preaching incident downtown.

I once held back from taking a crack at Rob McCarvey along these lines where a poster on the CCC aluded to Robo's belief's being much like the Phantom's. Making that crack would have been unfair to Robo! Reportedly the Phantom also likes to go after advantage Video Poker Players despite the fact that such players are generally tolerated by the casinos. He will lay down a rap along the lines of how faith is more powerful than the RNGs and does this at many levels of coin.

He relates to the pit by telling them that he feels that casinos are wrong to try to take advantage of patrons, but perhaps they as individuals can be saved by being shown how they are being taken in the same way.

This is just what I have heard, but I would I would be willing to bet that the posters who have described the Phantom would also have recolections of him being involved in seemingly out of place religious discussions with pit critters.

who claimed BJA was worth more to the pro than Beyond Counting. 'nough said.