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| January 3rd, 2011 at 10:02:33 AM permalink | |
| DJTeddyBear Member since: Nov 2, 2009 Threads: 105 Posts: 5714 | From http://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/whatsnews.cfm#9504:
Congrats, but how come we gotta hear about this third-hand? Superstitions are silly, childish, irrational rituals, born out of fear of the unknown.
But how much does it cost to knock on wood? |
| January 3rd, 2011 at 10:17:37 AM permalink | |
| thlf Member since: Feb 24, 2010 Threads: 16 Posts: 260 |
It's in the Wiz blog, and been there all morning. |
| January 3rd, 2011 at 10:41:29 AM permalink | |
| DJTeddyBear Member since: Nov 2, 2009 Threads: 105 Posts: 5714 | Oh. Well, CONGRATS! Superstitions are silly, childish, irrational rituals, born out of fear of the unknown.
But how much does it cost to knock on wood? |
| January 3rd, 2011 at 11:18:11 AM permalink | |
| MathExtremist Member since: Aug 31, 2010 Threads: 46 Posts: 2518 |
That should have said "other gambling luminaries"... And nice work, Wiz. "In my own case, when it seemed to me after a long illness that death was close at hand, I found no little solace in playing constantly at dice."
-- Girolamo Cardano, 1563 |
| January 3rd, 2011 at 12:03:05 PM permalink | |
| Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 14, 2009 Threads: 313 Posts: 6771 | Thanks!!! :-) As mentioned, I wrote about it a blog entry. I'd be happy to answer any questions here though. To answer one posted about my blog entry, no, I have no plans to do a WizardOfBlackjack site. I feel just about everything there is to so about blackjack has been said. Besides, if I start going down that road, I could see making special sites about lots of games. Actually, I have thought about a special site devoted to pai gow tiles, since I have a particular interest in that game, and there are no good free sites devoted to the game. If I could ever get the guy squatting on geejoon.com to sell it to me, I probably would. He has ignored all my inquires so far. It's not whether you win or lose; it's whether or not you had a good bet. |
| January 3rd, 2011 at 12:59:13 PM permalink | |
| Croupier Member since: Nov 15, 2009 Threads: 54 Posts: 1092 | I think my meaning in the comment on the blog was misconstrued. I was not requesting a WOBlackjack side site, merely stating that it could be another moniker added to the Wizards growing Wizard of xxxx collection. [This space is intentionally left blank] |
| January 3rd, 2011 at 2:50:33 PM permalink | |
| Nareed Member since: Nov 11, 2009 Threads: 218 Posts: 7274 |
I sugested it as a jest based on your comment. I mean it's a jest because, as the Wizard pointed out, he's already written extensively on BJ and related games (like BJ Switch, 6:5 21, Spanish 21, etc), not to mention the many BJ and 21 discussions on this site (if 6:5 isn't Blackjack, then even momney for BJ isn't Blackjack either). This space is closed for remodeling |
| January 3rd, 2011 at 2:58:46 PM permalink | |
| mkl654321 Member since: Aug 8, 2010 Threads: 65 Posts: 3412 |
Pai Gow tiles is one of my favorite games. I learned it in Oakland's Chinatown, pretty much by osmosis, in an environment where I was usually the only foreign devil, and NO ONE was speaking English. I made a LOT of money banking (usually by myself; no one wanted to bank together with a gaijin), and everyone playing against me would be volubly discussing their hands (since most player spots and bets were shared by three or more people)--but I wouldn't let on that I understood quite a bit of what they were saying. So they were essentially turning their hands face up, and since I set my hand last, I had a huge advantage--and they never caught on to why I would set my hand the "wrong" way (I basically played against the hand with the biggest bet and ignored everyone else). The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.---George Bernard Shaw |
| January 3rd, 2011 at 4:14:39 PM permalink | |
| EvenBob Member since: Jul 18, 2010 Threads: 231 Posts: 6397 | That pic of you in the blog is amazing, you look like refugee's from Eastern Europe. One casino owner to another: "It would be so much easier if we could just hit them over the head, steal their money, and throw their bodies in the creek." Al Swearengen, Deadwood |
| January 3rd, 2011 at 4:58:52 PM permalink | |
| Croupier Member since: Nov 15, 2009 Threads: 54 Posts: 1092 |
Ah. Maybe the use of the :P or :) should be prevalent for any jests. It would definitely help me out. :P [This space is intentionally left blank] |
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