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learning to count

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The Bishop is kicking ass over at his new site. I am impressed! He has definitely given a jolt to the advantage player web site world. [CC.COM is still my home though!]

It is good that this re-emergence of such talent is available. Is this a Card Counting Rennaissance or is every one gearing up for a coming explosion of Blackjack fever after the MIT movie comes out. We shall see. Now if the casinos will get competitive and offer some rules/penetration! It could be interesting.

I wonder is blackjack still a good way to make money or are the Masters hyping the possibilities for the future. The theory of advantage play is still here but is it futile in the casino environment today. The casino's have found high tech ways to watch, calculate and are basically trying to ID AND CATCH AP's. So what kind of future do we have.

Will we be expert Counters with no exploitable games? Will the casinos loosen up to take advantage of the comming gambling fad? Are we are due for a profitable run?

MIT+ NEW WEBSITES+HYPE= ?GAMBLING EXPLOSION?

Time will tell. Whew Mr. Nacht and Mr. Wong better take notes the Bishop is hot and his site is free!!! The bishop may not be "competitive" but it sure looks like he is after the market! LTC
 
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Rob McGarvey

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New Site, Same Green Eggs n Ham

I agree, his site is rocking. I'm sure that people that usually post here are doing so there, some under their handles here, and other use a different handle on every board they are on. This is typical of people wanting to be where the action is. No one wants to miss anything new. Arnie's site is free which is good, but it is only a matter of time before things change, like they have here, and at the CCC. We will see more and more commercial products added, and the real BJ info is behind closed doors just as it is at Wongs, but in the cunning disguise called the BJForum editions, which are also for sale. It's always free to walk into Walmart and look around, get free perfume samples, and eat a few free cookies. Hopefully you be having such a good time you may spend some $. Instead of getting $100 for POM, you'll get Cellini's $100 book which costs less than $10 to make. Once you read that you can duck and cover all the way past every eye and PB known to man. Or a free copy of BJF.

The MIT hype is the same as the Ken Uston hype, although it is all truth (??) Hype brings in new players, posters, and losers. Hype does not create winners. People that see thru the hype are able to see the gravy, and it's the same old gravy you been putting on your mashed potatoes since you could hold the laddle.
 
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Hinoon

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Re: New Site, Same Green Eggs n Ham

FYI - "Bringing Down the House" isn't slated for release any time soon. They have yet to announce any talent attachments other than Spacey, have no screenwriter attached, and are supposed to announce a production schedule March 7th. Even if the film gets fast-tracked...you can expect to wait about a year for a release, given the inevitable development/casting/pre-production/shooting/post-production hassles that a movie shot in Vegas will entail.

So I doubt that the hype plays into the current atmosphere.
 
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Hinoon

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Re: New Site, Same Green Eggs n Ham

A year would be an absolute minimum, in my opinion, unless for some reason MGM *really* pushes it forward. Development can take a LONG time. Statistically, feature films take around 5-6 years to make it from concept to screen. Made for TV movies take between 4-5 years. It's not uncommon for a project to be in the works for 10 years before it sees the light of day. Given the star power of Spacey and the publicity of the book, it's certainly a project with momentum. But it still has to be adapted into a screenplay, which can take many months, (and then go through a series of re-writes, notes sessions and final polishes) before it even goes into casting and pre-production. Hollywood is well known for its "hurry-up-and-wait" game.

If anything, it'll be fun to track the project's progress. Who knows, maybe it'll be rushed through and released in June. My estimations are based solely on available information about the project's status...and since I don't work at MGM or Trigger Street...I may be totally wrong. *shrug* But for now, I don't think the movie has much relevance to the playing conditions.
 
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Hinoon

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Re: New Site, Same Green Eggs n Ham

Hehe

Sorry, long day at the office, time to go home.

*ducks head back into shell*
 
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Wyrstle

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Movie Tracking *LINK*

A good site for tracking the progress of movies is http://www.corona.bc.ca in the coming attractions movie listings area. (Link below)wit

What you really need is a working title for the project, nothing curently shows up there with the same title as the book.

And oh yeah....if you think casinos are fruit and nuts, wait till you see some of the titles and concepts up there.

Wyrstle
 
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