Gambling book
I am hoping that the Wizard has read or reviewed it and can comment. At a $1000 for a new book I would like some insight before I would buy such a book. Hopefully a Huntington Press employee will be selling bootlegged copies like they did for Exhibit CAA.
I hadn’t heard that an employee was selling bootlegged copies. I knew someone was though.Quote: DRichJames Grosjean's new book is now available at Huntington Press. I believe it is called "Ultimate Report Lockdown".
I am hoping that the Wizard has read or reviewed it and can comment. At a $1000 for a new book I would like some insight before I would buy such a book. Hopefully a Huntington Press employee will be selling bootlegged copies like they did for Exhibit CAA.
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Quote: DRichJames Grosjean's new book is now available at Huntington Press. I believe it is called "Ultimate Report Lockdown".
I am hoping that the Wizard has read or reviewed it and can comment. At a $1000 for a new book I would like some insight before I would buy such a book. Hopefully a Huntington Press employee will be selling bootlegged copies like they did for Exhibit CAA.
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I found little of value in it beyond freely available sources online.
Are you talking the new book called lockdown edition?Quote: GrahamThorpQuote: DRichJames Grosjean's new book is now available at Huntington Press. I believe it is called "Ultimate Report Lockdown".
I am hoping that the Wizard has read or reviewed it and can comment. At a $1000 for a new book I would like some insight before I would buy such a book. Hopefully a Huntington Press employee will be selling bootlegged copies like they did for Exhibit CAA.
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I found little of value in it beyond freely available sources online.
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Quote: HunterhillAre you talking the new book called lockdown edition?Quote: GrahamThorpQuote: DRichJames Grosjean's new book is now available at Huntington Press. I believe it is called "Ultimate Report Lockdown".
I am hoping that the Wizard has read or reviewed it and can comment. At a $1000 for a new book I would like some insight before I would buy such a book. Hopefully a Huntington Press employee will be selling bootlegged copies like they did for Exhibit CAA.
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I found little of value in it beyond freely available sources online.
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I was talking about the 2023 publication.
This appears to be a different edition (different ISBN) but it is not listed as having any new information on Huntington Press or anywhere else online.
Most of Grosjean's writings are of questionable value and largely obsolete: even a vibe coder can simulate simple gambling games quite easily nowadays.
When the original beyond counting and follow up Exhibit CAa came out the information was still quite valuable and for people without coding skills especially. Now as you say much can be found online and many people can code or use AI to code to figure out things.Quote: GrahamThorpQuote: HunterhillAre you talking the new book called lockdown edition?Quote: GrahamThorpQuote: DRichJames Grosjean's new book is now available at Huntington Press. I believe it is called "Ultimate Report Lockdown".
I am hoping that the Wizard has read or reviewed it and can comment. At a $1000 for a new book I would like some insight before I would buy such a book. Hopefully a Huntington Press employee will be selling bootlegged copies like they did for Exhibit CAA.
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I found little of value in it beyond freely available sources online.
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I was talking about the 2023 publication.
This appears to be a different edition (different ISBN) but it is not listed as having any new information on Huntington Press or anywhere else online.
Most of Grosjean's writings are of questionable value and largely obsolete: even a vibe coder can simulate simple gambling games quite easily nowadays.
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Quote: HunterhillWhen the original beyond counting and follow up Exhibit CAa came out the information was still quite valuable and for people without coding skills especially. Now as you say much can be found online and many people can code or use AI to code to figure out things.Quote: GrahamThorpQuote: HunterhillAre you talking the new book called lockdown edition?Quote: GrahamThorpQuote: DRichJames Grosjean's new book is now available at Huntington Press. I believe it is called "Ultimate Report Lockdown".
I am hoping that the Wizard has read or reviewed it and can comment. At a $1000 for a new book I would like some insight before I would buy such a book. Hopefully a Huntington Press employee will be selling bootlegged copies like they did for Exhibit CAA.
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I found little of value in it beyond freely available sources online.
link to original post
link to original post
I was talking about the 2023 publication.
This appears to be a different edition (different ISBN) but it is not listed as having any new information on Huntington Press or anywhere else online.
Most of Grosjean's writings are of questionable value and largely obsolete: even a vibe coder can simulate simple gambling games quite easily nowadays.
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I beg to differ there.
Any one who was trying to hole-card in 2000 badly out of the loop. That was the dawn of online bonus hustling.You could deposit at online casinos all day long $100 for $100 5x playthrough, rinse/repeat, $1000 for $1000 in many cases or even higher. Well over 100K a year on no bankroll, almost no variance. Or you could middle no-juice promos for 10k against each other pocket 2k bonus money and if you hit a few middles. Look through the archives here, it was insane.
I cannot stress how hopelessly out of touch any one using ap at that time in a physical casino was. I don't mean to be unkind but the point needs emphasis. That was the best opportunity for AP's in human history and Grosjean never even mentioned it.
With regard to the opportunities: he never actually explains how to find HC opportunities so most players just won't be able to use the info. If you can find out the opportunities (obviously the machines caused serious problems but not everyone knew that) it is questionable how useful his advice is give you can't play optimal strategy without making it obvious you are a HC player.
Grosjean has this trick of publishing raw edge numbers: but there's never any explicit mention of the fact that most of the carny games games have very high variance and consequently much lower SCORES relative to edge, nor is there any much mention of scouting time which can be very high (10x or more), nor the difficulty of getting hands in against a specific dealer.
When you take all that into consideration you see an op like 1cp with an apparently great SCORE of 220 for the piece of crap it mostly actually is, inferior as a practical matter to a mediocre count game with a SCORE of 50: yet he's always criticizing card counters. It gets rather tiresome.
I'd add 1 card 3cp is just basically mimic the dealer, you don't really need a formal analysis.
Anyway to answer the question: we don't know what new information is in this new edition if any.
