Poor forum etiquette

You're right konceptum. My first instinct to just quit the forum was the correct choice, and I failed.

Quote: mkl654321

So given that a casino CAN cheat, the question is, WILL it? Cheating will undoubtedly increase the casinos' bottom line, and there are no effective penalties (and in the vast majority of cases, it is undetectable), so the only thing preventing casino cheating is the consciences of the casino bosses--who all KNOW cheating is WRONG (gag, ack, barf).

I don't see the reason for the casino to cheat. At least not for the house. I get that dealers will cheat for themselves. I can accept that managers might specifically screw over a-hole players (kind of hope that actually happens...). But, why on earth would the casino cheat just to pad the house's bottom line? They can just change the rules! 6-3 Pairs plus paytables on 3 card, 6:5 21 games, 8-5 JOB games...I don't think the house has an incentive to cheat as long as they can just alter the rules and still find people who will play their games.

Quote: DJTeddyBear

Since I am the number one poster of record, (The Wizard and JB might have more posts, but they are excluded from the top poster list)....

If I read the headings correctly, you currently have a 250+ post lead on the Wizard. What's the prize? :-)

Quote: Doc

If I read the headings correctly, you currently have a 250+ post lead on the Wizard. What's the prize? :-)

RDW4POTUS'S 1-800-333-HOPE card?

Quote: DorothyGale

Hmmm... one could argue humor or sarcasm ... I'll view it as a weak and feeble attempt at counter attack ...

A) Wizard works for the gaming industry.

B) Wizard is an advantage player.

C) I never gamble so I'll stand in on that one.

A universally quantified statement is "For every X, Y" as in "Everyone knows casinos cheat." You made a universally quantified statement. That must be proven over every X, and is tough to prove, as you've no doubt experienced. For example, "every horse has four legs" requires examining every horse.

An existentially quantified statement is "There are X" as in "There are people here who are advantage players." To prove an existential, one merely has to provide a single example, as I've done above. For example, "there is a horse with 3 legs" requires displaying a single horse with 3 legs.

I don't know why you would counter attack without actually planning it out and doing your research to get your one sentence to be logically accurate; it just comes off so weak. I'm sorry for you now.

--Dorothy

Wow, Dorothy. Formal logic training? Are you a lawyer?

Quote: rdw4potus

Wow, Dorothy. Formal logic training? Are you a lawyer?

Yes, formal logic training ... just a bit ... arrrrr ... yeah, just a bit ...

I am not a lawyer, I'm a Kansas farm girl ...

--Dorothy

Quote: DorothyGale

The year is 1939. I live in Kansas. Holy crap.

--Dorothy

I thought "OZ-like" could also refer to Australia.

Of course the "Gale" part is very conclusive, not to mention this is the Wizard's forum and all.

Quote: Nareed

I thought "OZ-like" could also refer to Australia.

Of course the "Gale" part is very conclusive, not to mention this is the Wizard's forum and all.

Very few know that "Gale" is my last name ... cool corn husks ... it's only mentioned once in the movie they made of those traumatic few days of my otherwise existentially meaningless life. I've often thought of those tragic fictional characters Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, at least they were immortalized by those 157 consecutive coin flips that came up heads ...

OK ... ok ... this one is good ... don't look it up ... trivia question, in Casablanca, what was "Rick's" last name?

--Dorothy

Quote: DorothyGale

OK ... ok ... this one is good ... don't look it up ... trivia question, in Casablanca, what was "Rick's" last name?

--Dorothy

Blaine. Though I may have the spelling incorrect. My fuzzy memory is that the Peter Lorre character makes a reference to "Mr. Blaine".

Headlock,

You have to have a thick skin to survive on these forums. I can leave it as simple as that, and to not be as responsive to people who are mean to you or perceive as such.

Regarding the hedging in craps, I originated a Wizard question for that a few years back and got an answer. I always do hedge the fifth point in craps, and have not made a calculation for the sixth.

My wife and I always talk about the casino cheating, by doing something with the auto-shuffler, by taking cards out of a deck, and by not giving out jackpots. But my feeling is that it is all a bunch of bunk. I've witnessed $110,000 jackpots be paid out at Caribbean Stud. The mega-millions jackpot is inevitably won. Dice are not skewed in craps, and roulette wheels are generally unbiased. Cards have 52 cards and are dealt randomly. Every game in the casino is in the casino's advantage. They know it, and we know it, and that is how Vegas is built. Really, it's dumb players and greed that have built up Vegas -- the fact that Vegas has an infinite bankroll and the player doesn't.

I must say that I haven't liked the flavor of the forums lately because of name calling and seeing the same posts and questions being posted over and over again. But I suspect it's just growing pains.