The Green Chip War
In a Gambling with an Edge podcast, two card counters—“Joe” and “Semi-Pro”—tell the story of a chop disagreement. I am only a listener to the podcast, with no inside knowledge, so my comments will...
View ArticleCasino Surveillance Compromised: One Eye Closed—by The Rat
[Editor’s Note: There’s been much speculation about what gambling will be like when the casinos reopen on June 4. One debate revolves around opportunities, or lack thereof, for advantage players, given...
View ArticlePodcast – guest Surveillance Operator, Jackson
Our guest this week is a surveillance operator named Jackson. “Jackson,” is also an AP blackjack player who works/plays in the Midwest. Should listeners want to contact him they can reach him at...
View ArticleKipling Said It Best
In the middle of his famous poem “If,” Rudyard Kipling poses the condition, “If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same.” At the end of the poem filled with...
View ArticlePodcast – guest Bill Robertie
Our guest this week is two time backgammon world champion and author, Bill Robertie. We welcome your questions – send them to us at gamblingwithanedge@gmail.com, or you can find me at @RWM21 on Twitter...
View ArticleCoronavirus III: Eyes Wide Shut
Fifteen years ago, when most of the AP discussion was consolidated on Stanford Wong’s Green Chip page, there was a recurring conjecture, posed by naïvely optimistic card counters: When a butterfly...
View ArticleA Look at Maria Konnikova’s The Biggest Bluff
One of the good news/bad news parts of my job as a podcast co-host is that I’m regularly offered manuscripts to read by authors hoping to land an invitation to the show. In the case of Maria Konnikova,...
View ArticlePodcast – listener emails 6/18/20
No guest this week as Bob and I once again dip into the mail bag. We welcome your questions – send them to us at gamblingwithanedge@gmail.com, or you can find me at @RWM21 on Twitter or...
View ArticleCoronavirus IV: Rats!
I am Charlie Brown to The Rat’s Lucy van Pelt. When The Rat guest-blogged that the re-opening of casinos could bring a uniquely juicy opportunity for APs, I was skeptical. I told Anthony Curtis, “So...
View ArticleFinding my Spot
When I was nine years old, I was an All-Star baseball player. It wasn’t part of the official Little League system. Our city parks in Gardena, a suburb of Los Angeles, had a minor league, from 8-10...
View ArticlePodcast – guest poker pro and author Maria Konnikova
Our guest this week is Maria Konnikova. Maria is a PHD in psychology, and a best-selling author who decided to spend one year learning to play tournament poker from Eric Seidel, and write a book about...
View ArticleIn the Wild
In this ongoing series I’m going to share anecdotes and observations from the casinos, usually for entertainment purposes only. I’m limited in what I can share in real time, so I might expand the...
View ArticleAre You Still Up to Snuff?
In Las Vegas, there was a 70-day break for the pandemic, assuming you played in the casinos on March 17 and returned on June 4. If you socially distanced before March 17, or didn’t rush back as soon as...
View ArticlePodcast – guest T Dane
Our guest this week is T Dane, a surveillance expert, and author of “Behind the Black Dome.” We welcome your questions – send them to us at gamblingwithanedge@gmail.com, or you can find me at @RWM21...
View ArticleEthics Vs EV
Last week a story broke detailing a botched start time for a group of South Korean baseball games that were scheduled to start after midnite. The main line services had the time right but one group of...
View ArticleTwo Sucker Bets
“S-U-R-P-R-I-S-E!” sixty people shouted as my wife Bonnie entered her sister’s house. Her 75th birthday party was off to a noisy beginning. I sighed in relief. We had pulled it off. All the invitations...
View ArticlePodcast – listener emails 7/9/20
No guest this week as Bob and I once again dip into the mail bag. We welcome your questions – send them to us at gamblingwithanedge@gmail.com, or you can find me at @RWM21 on Twitter or...
View ArticleTwo Simple Applications of the Binomial Distribution
A month or so ago I answered the Question of the Day for the Las Vegas Advisor and I answered it in terms of the Binomial Distribution. There were some comments posted after that QOD indicating that...
View ArticlePodcast – guest David Hill
Our guest this week is David Hill, author of the new book “The Vapors.” We welcome your questions – send them to us at gamblingwithanedge@gmail.com, or you can find me at @RWM21 on Twitter or...
View ArticleGambler’s Bonus Reminiscences – Part I of II
For a five-year period ending about a decade ago, I played a lot at certain 15-machine pubs in the southeastern section of the Las Vegas valley. Places such as Village Pub, Raye’s, Doc Holliday’s, and...
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