Gambling With an Edge – listener emails 2
We have no guest this week. Bob and Richard answer listener emails. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to download The post Gambling With an Edge – listener emails 2 appeared first on Gambling With...
View ArticleAnother Matter of Perspective
Recently I wrote a column about me growing up gambling-wise at the Cavendish West, which was a gin and backgammon club in the West Hollywood part of greater Los Angeles. If you didn’t read it the first...
View ArticleGambling With an Edge – listener emails 3
This week is a followup to last week’s show where we answer questions submitted by our listeners, and talk about some experiences with casino promotions, both good and bad. In addition Anthony Curtis...
View ArticleDFS Picks: NFL Wildcard Round
Daily fantasy football rolls on as we head into the NFL Wildcard Round and because it is the playoffs, putting together DFS lineups requires a different approach as opposed to the regular season. And...
View ArticleNorm Wattenberg and the CV Product Suite
If you are like most players you started your AP training by reading Ed Thorps book Beat the Dealer. After that you studied and memorized all of the basic strategy charts from that book. You then...
View ArticleHow Bad Is It to Be Greedy?
I assume you know what it means to be greedy. If I’m right about this assumption, then you’re ahead of me. I’m very confused by what the word means. I Googled “What is greed?” It came back with the...
View ArticleChase Sapphire Reserve 100k offer, get it while you can
The Chase Sapphire Reserve card has 100,000 point sign up bonus along with a handful of other benefits that justify the $450 ( non waived the first year) annual fee. January 11th (today) is the last...
View ArticleGambling With an Edge – Zach Elwood #3
The guest this week is Zach Elwood. Zach is the author of a new book, Exploiting Poker Tells, which should be out within the next month. You can find more info about Zach and his other books at...
View ArticleDFS picks for NFL Divisional Round
Short fields presents a tricky landscape for daily fantasy football players because the inclusion of chalk players, such as Pittsburgh running back Le’Veon Bell, in lineups will be so heavy that if you...
View ArticleThe Best Video Poker Player
I’m probably the most famous video poker player of all time — not that there’s any real competition nor is there any prize. This “award” comes from me being a well-known writer and teacher for more...
View ArticleFanDuel Announces Entry into DFS Golf
FanDuel just made an announcement that may be partially revealing in terms of the anticipated merger between FanDuel and DraftKings. Last year, the two companies said they’d merge sometime in 2017....
View ArticleThose Damned Books
I started playing poker very young. I remember seeking out books that would help me improve, but back then I was pretty much limited to people like Oswald Jacoby and Herbert O. Yardley. I got to Vegas...
View ArticleGambling With an Edge – guest Buddy Frank
The guest this week is Buddy Frank. Buddy has been a casino director in slots and marketing for 25+ years, and now runs a small consulting business. podcast Click to listen – Alt click to download The...
View ArticleDFS Picks: NFL Conference Championships
With daily fantasy football players having just two games to consider on the NFL Conference Championship weekend, the puzzle of putting together a lineup becomes an even more extreme exercise in fading...
View ArticleNot What I Thought I Knew
I enjoy reading. I read both fiction and non-fiction — on a wide variety of subjects. Periodically I look at “Best Books of xxxx” lists to see if anything looks interesting. One such list included the...
View ArticleSuper Bowl Specials
Every day leading up to the Super Bowl sports books offer up some kind of new deal to attract customers. Some are designed to get you in the door during the period prior to the Super Bowl and some are...
View ArticleGambling With an Edge – guest Spencer Robinson
The guest this week is Spencer Robinson. Spencer was a member of one of the largest, and most successful blackjack teams in history. He was also part of the rock band, The Lords of Altamont. Being a...
View ArticleLatest DFS Move Means Larger FantasyDraft
Two second-tier daily fantasy sports websites are becoming one. Fantasy Draft, a website that admittedly I had come to appreciate in the last year for various reasons (see more below), is acquiring...
View ArticleUpdate: Latest DFS Move Turns Out to be a Fantasy
Almost as quickly as there was an announcement of an apparent marriage between FantasyDraft and FantasyAces — actually FantasyDraft was supposed to be acquiring certain assets of FantasyAces — than...
View ArticleDr. Ed Thorp at the 21st Blackjack Ball
On Saturday January 28th 2017 the 21st annual Blackjack Ball was held. Bob will be writing an article next week with the full details of all that went on at the Ball, but I wanted to post this video of...
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