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Posted by ChumpChange
Jun 14, 2023
Jun 14, 2023
BJ - The Best Shoe
This is a 10 minute challenge to see who can score the highest with a $300 buy-in.What I do is play along with the video on my home calculator with my own bet sizes and compare how my various systems pan out.
My usual $1,000 buy-in cashed out so close to $20K, so 20X my buy-in with a semi-press on each win, or at least the first 5 wins then a regress then a semi-press on the next 2 wins then a max bet for the level until a loss.
My $300 buy-in of the same strategy only with a level max bet after 6 wins in a row came out to a cash-out of over $8,500, or over 28X the buy-in.
My latest strategy with a $300 buy-in only had a cash-out of $4K, so I wasn't pressing on each win.
That same strategy had a cash-out of $14K on a $1K buy-in.
I'm not really following what the player in this video did, but he managed to get to 19X his buy-in, which is just slightly less than I did on my $1K buy-in to get to near $20K.
For the 10 minute tournament, I'd do the semi-pressings. For regular play, I wouldn't, but I could. For extreme negative BJ, I wouldn't unless it was too late to know.
Someone made a post about the WOV Card Counter Trainer and I had never heard of it so I'll include a link here.
https://wizardofodds.com/play/blackjack-v2/
My bankroll was five $1K buy-ins with my $5K start money and I lost 2 sessions, then won 1 session to win back $1K, then lost the next 4 sessions. So -150 hands, +10 hands. I've had to reconfigure my usual strategy to include a tight bankroll and "extreme negative BJ with cash-outs at 10 hands ahead with double the money" and exclude semi-pressings on a win because the losing streak is so severe.
I'll have to include my Roku BJ game as an extreme negative BJ game even though I survived over 850 hands last night and only losing $400 of my $500 daily feed from the game. So I had to write up some new charts for that game too.
My regular demo version of Casino Vérité (alt 0233 for the é) seemed rather harsh when I tried using semi-presses and I lost the first 16 $1K sessions in a row (-400 hands!). I've stopped with the semi-presses and I've won to over $100K in profit during the 2nd set of 10K hands. That doesn't mean I don't have losing sessions, I still have several in a row. I just have the occasional winning session similar to the video below that puts me ahead without the semi-presses. I also increase my session size the further I get ahead. So currently I'm starting with $5K sessions, and on a hot shoe like in this video, I could win over $50K without semi-presses, or $100K with semi-presses.
🔥BIGGEST WIN RECORDED🔥 10 Minute Blackjack Challenge - WIN BIG or BUST #183
Posted by ChumpChange
Apr 15, 2023
Apr 15, 2023
BC - Press 'til U got no more!
What I Got Wrong about Craps - Color Up - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-SG6SbSiX8Press 'til U got no more: $220 in, $1K+ cash-out! - Greg Uloho
Bubble craps 3 printouts with power pressing. I refuse to lose horseshoe Indianapolis casino winning - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcFQQtjpQJo
(Part 2) Bubble Craps 8s galore. $4000 flip for another profitable day horseshoe Indianapolis casino gambling - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WjkHPy2tII
THE BEST BUBBLE CRAPS. Came in with $1100 to try $220 5x & casino boss sat next to me to watch - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SFty6cgycA
I tried something on WinCraps the next day and it started me right off with 5 point 7-outs in a row.
I tried something on Bubble Craps and I lost 10 points before winning the first one.
Posted by ChumpChange
Apr 06, 2023
Apr 06, 2023
PS5 & Pinball FX
I just got my new PS5 with the Blu Ray Player included so I can still go to Game Stop and shop for PS4 & PS5 games on discount, depending on how long Game Stop survives, which mightn't be long. I don't have a 4K TV nor Dolby 5.1 surround so I can't upgrade to all that just yet, if ever. I just spotted a NextGen 43" TV for $1200, yeah, not what I was thinking. I can't get over the air TV here anyway so what do I need NextGen TV for? Will cable go NextGen soon? What does that even mean?Anyway, I was putting games on my wishlist since the size of them could fill up my 825 GB hard drive very quickly so I have to be very frugal about what games I get, plus they cost money. I came across Pinball FX. These are real and not so real games of pinball that seam like decent replicas, or better. I could only play a few games before my 1 day free pass expired. I had $20 in my PS3 wallet that I used to buy a 1 month pass at Pinball FX (for $14.99 + tax, or $100 for a year + tax) which will let me choose from dozens of machines to play (for free, ha ha). I've only played Attack From Mars and Funhouse so far. There have been grumblings online that the players don't like this subscription model and they can't bring the pinball games they've bought previously to the PS5 because there's a new engine powering the program. They also mentioned the flippers were OK but they could be better, there's a lag that could be a bit frustrating for pro players on real tables. Zen studios makes this game, and players feel they'll stick with what they've got rather than upgrade for use on a PS5.
I'm getting a little carpal tunnel pain from flipping the flippers on the joystick, but I managed to get to 2.9 million points on Funhouse in a few tries. Maybe it's early but that's a Top 500 score. I think they just introduced it in the past month.
Pinball FX FAQ – Zen Studios https://www.pinballfx.com/?page_id=7115#
Pinball FX Review (PS5) | Push Square https://www.pushsquare.com/reviews/ps5/pinball-fx
Pinball FX Review (PS5) - Is It Worth Playing? - PlayStation LifeStyle https://www.playstationlifestyle.net/review/878101-pinball-fx-review-ps5/
The Over-Monetized Pinball FX Reboot is Now on PS5 | by Alex Rowe | Mar, 2023 | Medium https://xander51.medium.com/the-over-monetized-pinball-fx-reboot-is-now-on-ps5-46825528fe7b
Posted by ChumpChange
Feb 18, 2023
Feb 18, 2023
Las Vegas Lady - 1975 w/ Stella Stevens
Las Vegas Lady (1975) - Stella Stevens, Stuart Whitman, George DiCenzo - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9o9MxK6IDwComments
smoothgrh
Jul 17, 2023
Thanks for making me aware of the existence of this movie!
I watched the first 10 minutes — another Vegas movie with a Vegas neon montage (a la "Viva Las Vegas") and one set at Circus Circus! A good closeup of the Bally 800 series of slots! As a slot machine hobbyist, I'm annoyed when movies/television show pachinko machines instead of real slots.
I wonder if kids in the early '70s really did walk around with balloons on sticks.
Posted by ChumpChange
Feb 17, 2023
Feb 17, 2023
LA-Vegas Movie: Corvette Summer (1978)
Annie Potts and Mark Hamill chase down a stolen Corvette Stingray on the seedy side of Las Vegas. Danny Bonaduce of course lost the car in the first place!Movie Classic 70's Adventure Comedy - Corvette Summer (1978) - Retrospective - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XC-GW2L7QuU
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I got most of the Bally/Williams pinball games from Pinball Arcade, back when they had the rights to the games.
I haven't looked at Pinball FX, but I hope it's just the game, and not all kinds of graphic elements on "goal completed" and points counting up. I don't like all those distractions (can't hear no buzzers and bells). Maybe you can turn those off?
Subscriptions suck. Let me just buy the game and keep it forever!