Wiz Wins!

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Ah. Maybe the use of the :P or :) should be prevalent for any jests. It would definitely help me out. :P

Sometimes I get a smiley overload and begin to think they look unseemly. Sometimes I just plain forget them.

Quote: EvenBob

That pic of you in the blog is amazing, you look like refugee's from Eastern Europe.

Especially me. It was a cell phone picture so the quality is not the best. I also had quite a few drinks, as the picture seems to show. Not the most most flattering picture of me. I'm hoping somebody else who took some will send me a copy.

Quote: Wizard

Especially me. It was a cell phone picture so the quality is not the best. I also had quite a few drinks, as the picture seems to show. Not the most most flattering picture of me

Congratulations Wizard, for at least having some fun.

How many times have you won what there? Was there a buy-in, or was it another HSP "glorified circus-act" (w/o the HSP)?

Quote: EvenBob

That pic of you in the blog is amazing, you look like refugee's from Eastern Europe.

Well, he DID say it was an unflattering cell phone photo...


Wiz -

Some of those tests seem interesting. But was there also BlackJack play as part of the contest?

Quote: DJTeddyBear

Well, he DID say it was an unflattering cell phone photo...

Then again, since I own PhotoShop, and know how to use it...

Quote: DJTeddyBear

Then again, since I own PhotoShop, and know how to use it...

Thanks! This is significantly better.

Quote: Garnabby

How many times have you won what there? Was there a buy-in, or was it another HSP "glorified circus-act" (w/o the HSP)?

I have never made it to the final table before. Once I was tied to make it there, but lost in a tie breaking round. No prize money, but there is a Calcutta, in which everyone gambles on who will win. I did not bet on myself, unfortunately. The person who bid the most on me likely won several thousand dollars. It is just a fun thing among blackjack players. Winning gives me BIG bragging rights. Here is a good article about it.

Quote: Wizard

Thanks! This is significantly better.



I have never made it to the final table before. Once I was tied to make it there, but lost in a tie breaking round. No prize money, but there is a Calcutta, in which everyone gambles on who will win. I did not bet on myself, unfortunately. The person who bid the most on me likely won several thousand dollars. It is just a fun thing among blackjack players. Winning gives me BIG bragging rights. Here is a good article about it.

Congrats and woo hoo!, by the way.

Bridge tournaments used to have Calcuttas, and the one feature I remember is that any player that someone else had bet on had the right to buy back half of himself from that person. Did you have such an opportunity here?

So you can add to your signature line, "Bet On the Wizard"!

Quote: Wizard

Here is a good article about it.

"Most Feared Man in the Casino Business." Is that a good thing when you live in Vegas, are already well known, and now have the rep as the fastest counter? Isn't that like making the fox wear a bell so you know when he's in the henhouse?

Quote: mkl654321

Bridge tournaments used to have Calcuttas, and the one feature I remember is that any player that someone else had bet on had the right to buy back half of himself from that person. Did you have such an opportunity here?

They have that rule at the Blackjack Ball too, but I unfortunately didn't invoke it. I was on a team Wizards by myself because two other math-heads didn't show up. So I didn't think I was a good bet at around $400.

Quote: EvenBob

"Most Feared Man in the Casino Business." Is that a good thing when you live in Vegas, are already well known, and now have the rep as the fastest counter? Isn't that like making the fox wear a bell so you know when he's in the henhouse?

They are very secretive at the Blackjack Ball. They don't make a public list of the tournament winners. However, I suppose the word can spread. Most blackjack players use multiple assumed names anyway.

Also, the competition isn't just counting fast. I would have never won in that case. It is a combination of lots of things, which I mentioned in my blog entry about it.

Quote: Wizard

the competition isn't just counting fast. .

But its the one the casinos care about. Doesn't seem to secret to me, we all know about it and we don't even live in Vegas. From reading the article about the contest, you are now the best of the best BJ players in the world.