WSOB 2006

Attention World Class Blackjack Players!

The WORLD SERIES of BLACKJACK 2006 is looking for the best of the best in blackjack tournament players, to compete in this year�s World Series for a share of the $1 million purse. There are very limited invitations remaining. If you would like to be considered for this prestigious event, please send your tournament credentials and a recent picture to: worldseriesofblackjack3@gmail.com

Due to the limited number of remaining seats, we suggest that you submit ASAP.

Also a chance to meet Stanford Wong who should be invited back as one of the finalist from the WSOB II. Stanford had a chance to win it all had the dealer made a hand on the last hand of the tournament, but a dealers bust put him in 3rd place.

but sending a picture, makes me a little too nervous.

The casinos don't see the pictures and if you get selected your going to be on national TV anyway.

However if this still is a problem you can send a picture in wearing a disguise, GSN doesn't have a problem with that or with alias.

Players in disguise add more mystique and interest to the viewers anyway. If everyone was in disguise, it would help to make an awareness of what us AP's have to do to stay in the game. It also shows the viewers that the casinos are vulnerable and can in fact be beat at their own games. The casinos gain more wannabies as a result. We gain awareness of the discrimination against us.

but it said my handle is North Wind and I needed to send a picture along. I look like the Hunchback of Notre Dame and there is no way I can disguise it. I would have to sit in a chair without a back and when my left leg acts up I immediately have to jump up and hop around the room beating my leg trying to get it to come back to life. That alone would probably get me disqualified.

I guess you would have to change your handle if you don't want it known. Your seat could be turned side ways so the back would be on the side and give your hump room (I would assume that is what you do now).

As far as getting up for your leg that is no problem as long as you stay on the stage.

My guess is you are not to worried about others seeing you or you wouldn't be out at the casinos now so why start worrying about playing on TV for $500,000 first prize?

Jomoats I figured you were joking, but about the time I cracked a few jokes I would find out you really were a hunchback.

I just wanted to point out that this is really a sweet deal for all blackjack players and GSN would work with you even if your earlier post was true. Who and where else are we give a a chance to win $500,000 getting to play blackjack?

As far as giving up your true identity, GSN not only allows you to wear a disguise and use an alias, they incourage you to do so, the wilder the better (makes for good TV). Several of the top players have played on this show over the pass few years.

should not be played as a single deck game because the element of counting is almost worthless with only two hands per deck. It should at least be a double deck game with only one card burned and the cut card placed at approx 1/2 deck in. Better yet, it should be a 6D shoe with 60 hands per round and 85 - 90% pen.

The element of luck (happenstance), should be reduced as much as possible for pro players in an attempt to find out who really deserves to be the winner.

> Pro tournaments should not be played as a single deck game because
> the element of counting is almost worthless with only two hands per
> deck.

The WSOBJ is not a SD game, it's played from a shoe. Also, anyone will tell you that counting in a tournament is 'almost worthless' anyway, even if played from a shoe.

IMO a blackjack tournament is about betting, luck, and counting .. in that order.

And actually I'd disagree about the use of a SD. If I were trying to find the best pro, I'd probably play a SD game, dealt rather deeply, to maybe four players at a time, over several rounds.

Or, if using a shoe, shuffle each shoe right there before God and everbody, play enough rounds (as you suggest), so that each player gets to handle the cut card once. :)

Either of those would seperate the men from the boys .. but these things are really made for TV entertainment .. nothing more, nothing less.

I think though it would be interesting to watch pro players have to fight each other with either a really hot or cold shoe.

If you want to see players aganist a hot shoe and dealer watch the semifinals from WSOB II. At one point the dealer made either BJ or 21 five straight hands.

As far as watching or playing in a SD tournament you should try teh IP in Vegas. They deal a SD to the last card, you gotta love it.