Psychics and blackjack
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Katweezel
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Go with the flow
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I noted someone could be planning to write yet another Blackjack book. Yeah, right... Just what we all need. Another BJ book. I think that makes it a total of 897 so far, on this subject. I hope it has something we don't know about already, some new things really meaningful; which must be a tough ask.
My guess is the book is aimed at the 95% (I made that figure up) of BJ players that are all from the same tribe: Voodoo Practitioner. The true figure may be 99.99%, who knows for certain? But I like 95 since I read the result of a survey of US casinos years ago that said 95% of casino patrons leave with less money than when they arrived. (Glad I am never in that dreaded 95%!)
So if the new book is aimed at this vast herd of daily losers, maybe it could be a winner if it has something that holds the possibility of turning a clueless BJ mug into a winner. I hope he can read! Here are 12 topics very dear to Voodoo BJ Practitioners' hearts that, should they spot them listed in the index, would be far more likely to catch a book sale than if it contained all that usual dreary stuff on math and illustrious's indexes and the like, (that none of these people can be bothered reading anyway.)
At no charge, here is my list of mesmerising Voodoo topics, that will be irresistible to prospective buyers of the book, once they see this list:
1 Flow of cards and how to Go with The Flow. 2 The Trend is your friend. 3 Winning patterns. 4 How to not take the dealer's bust card. 5 How to predict the next dealer bust. 6 Psychic table selection. 7 Winning at BJ and the full moon. 8 Numerology and seat selection. 9 Psychic card selection. 10 Angels, fairies and omens. 11 Good luck charms, amulets and trinkets.
12 How to hypnotize dealers, pitcritters and goons. :cat:
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I noted someone could be planning to write yet another Blackjack book. Yeah, right... Just what we all need. Another BJ book. I think that makes it a total of 897 so far, on this subject. I hope it has something we don't know about already, some new things really meaningful; which must be a tough ask.
My guess is the book is aimed at the 95% (I made that figure up) of BJ players that are all from the same tribe: Voodoo Practitioner. The true figure may be 99.99%, who knows for certain? But I like 95 since I read the result of a survey of US casinos years ago that said 95% of casino patrons leave with less money than when they arrived. (Glad I am never in that dreaded 95%!)
So if the new book is aimed at this vast herd of daily losers, maybe it could be a winner if it has something that holds the possibility of turning a clueless BJ mug into a winner. I hope he can read! Here are 12 topics very dear to Voodoo BJ Practitioners' hearts that, should they spot them listed in the index, would be far more likely to catch a book sale than if it contained all that usual dreary stuff on math and illustrious's indexes and the like, (that none of these people can be bothered reading anyway.)
At no charge, here is my list of mesmerising Voodoo topics, that will be irresistible to prospective buyers of the book, once they see this list:
1 Flow of cards and how to Go with The Flow. 2 The Trend is your friend. 3 Winning patterns. 4 How to not take the dealer's bust card. 5 How to predict the next dealer bust. 6 Psychic table selection. 7 Winning at BJ and the full moon. 8 Numerology and seat selection. 9 Psychic card selection. 10 Angels, fairies and omens. 11 Good luck charms, amulets and trinkets.
12 How to hypnotize dealers, pitcritters and goons. :cat:
Tarzan
Banned
Already out there, Kat!
1 Flow of cards and how to Go with The Flow. 2 The Trend is your friend. 3 Winning patterns. 4 How to not take the dealer's bust card. 5 How to predict the next dealer bust. 6 Psychic table selection. 7 Winning at BJ and the full moon. 8 Numerology and seat selection. 9 Psychic card selection. 10 Angels, fairies and omens. 11 Good luck charms, amulets and trinkets.
12 How to hypnotize dealers, pitcritters and goons.
Many of the topics you list there are already out as an actual SYSTEM for sale for like...$450USD, called the "TARGET" system, which implies that you can use this system and win consistently without bothering with counting. The odd part is that is was devised by a reputable professional player, Jim Patterson (at least he was considered reputable up until the point that he devised this particular system and started selling it)!
1 Flow of cards and how to Go with The Flow. 2 The Trend is your friend. 3 Winning patterns. 4 How to not take the dealer's bust card. 5 How to predict the next dealer bust. 6 Psychic table selection. 7 Winning at BJ and the full moon. 8 Numerology and seat selection. 9 Psychic card selection. 10 Angels, fairies and omens. 11 Good luck charms, amulets and trinkets.
12 How to hypnotize dealers, pitcritters and goons.
Many of the topics you list there are already out as an actual SYSTEM for sale for like...$450USD, called the "TARGET" system, which implies that you can use this system and win consistently without bothering with counting. The odd part is that is was devised by a reputable professional player, Jim Patterson (at least he was considered reputable up until the point that he devised this particular system and started selling it)!
Katweezel
Well-Known Member
Hypnotized pitcritters
Yeah, thanks Tarzan, I never heard of that huckster, Patterson and his 'Target system'. You mean, he actually had the colossal nerve to charge $450 for it... The cheapskate! I wonder how many suckers he found. And did he hypnotize dealers and pitcritters as well?!! I figured a more realistic fee for new-age, spiritual, psychic revelations of this magic type would be errr, around ... 8 grand. :cat:Tarzan said:
blackchipjim
Well-Known Member
Snake oil
I found it interesting that people would use another person's superstistions to take advantage of them. I would suppose it is a weakness or chink in the armor of a normal thinking person. The south had carpetbaggers during the civil war era that would sell snake oil as a cure for any ailment that you could imagine. It a does a great disservice to people who may have extra abilities that most people us don't have. blackchipjim
I found it interesting that people would use another person's superstistions to take advantage of them. I would suppose it is a weakness or chink in the armor of a normal thinking person. The south had carpetbaggers during the civil war era that would sell snake oil as a cure for any ailment that you could imagine. It a does a great disservice to people who may have extra abilities that most people us don't have. blackchipjim
Katweezel
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Carpetbaggers
Carpetbaggers had a motto: 'God would not have made so many sheep if he didn't want them shorn."
This is the same philosophy followed by today's casinos. :cat:
Jim, I guess carpetbaggers gotta make a living too. Could be that a bottle of snake oil might have cured a few people, like the placebo effect works on some peoples' belief systems.blackchipjim said:
Carpetbaggers had a motto: 'God would not have made so many sheep if he didn't want them shorn."
This is the same philosophy followed by today's casinos. :cat:
blackchipjim
Well-Known Member
The flock
I do believe the vast majority of casino goers are sheep considering most people are recreational players. The difference comes when a person rises above the " I came with x amount of dollars to lose" mentality. Alot of people get tired of losing most of the time they go to the casinos. They are open to easy suggestions of winning back the money they lost with a easy system. They fall prey to "huckters" as you call them that sell systems or trinkets that promise no fail wins. I have seen a few card calling people that were the biggest idiots at the table but the others called them psychic. blackchipjim
I do believe the vast majority of casino goers are sheep considering most people are recreational players. The difference comes when a person rises above the " I came with x amount of dollars to lose" mentality. Alot of people get tired of losing most of the time they go to the casinos. They are open to easy suggestions of winning back the money they lost with a easy system. They fall prey to "huckters" as you call them that sell systems or trinkets that promise no fail wins. I have seen a few card calling people that were the biggest idiots at the table but the others called them psychic. blackchipjim
Katweezel
Well-Known Member
How to not take it
1 Flow of cards and how to Go with The Flow. 2 The Trend is your friend. 3 Winning patterns. 4 How to not take the dealer's bust card. 5 How to predict the next dealer bust. 6 Psychic table selection. 7 Winning at BJ and the full moon. 8 Numerology and seat selection. 9 Psychic card selection. 10 Angels, fairies and omens. 11 Good luck charms, amulets and trinkets.
12 How to hypnotize dealers, pitcritters and goons.
I've heard this dealer bust card folk wisdom more than a few times at the table. Nobody has ever mentioned how this is supposed to be achieved. It must be a secret. Has anyone heard the secret yet?
1 Flow of cards and how to Go with The Flow. 2 The Trend is your friend. 3 Winning patterns. 4 How to not take the dealer's bust card. 5 How to predict the next dealer bust. 6 Psychic table selection. 7 Winning at BJ and the full moon. 8 Numerology and seat selection. 9 Psychic card selection. 10 Angels, fairies and omens. 11 Good luck charms, amulets and trinkets.
12 How to hypnotize dealers, pitcritters and goons.
I've heard this dealer bust card folk wisdom more than a few times at the table. Nobody has ever mentioned how this is supposed to be achieved. It must be a secret. Has anyone heard the secret yet?
sagefr0g
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i'm not privy to the conventional wisdom so i can only conjecture. me i think the secret has to do with peering into the strange, murky mysteries of the past then making sage comments about those events. in that process one can become the hero of hero's or the lowest of the low in the twinkling of the dealer's eye.:cat::whip:Katweezel said:.....
I've heard this dealer bust card folk wisdom more than a few times at the table. Nobody has ever mentioned how this is supposed to be achieved. It must be a secret. Has anyone heard the secret yet?
Katweezel
Well-Known Member
Dealrer bust hero
Yeah, right on Sage. When it was you who took the dealer's bust card, oh, man, ALL the other players look at you like you are something smelly they just scraped off their shoe. Or they're just waiting for the word to string you up. Because then the world would be rid of one idiot. That would be one less idiot who doesn' know how to NOT take the dealer bust card. Then, what goes around comes around; your mortal sin is quickly forgotten when just 3 rounds later, you cause the dealer to bust and you are restored to herohood, and they are talking to you again. How fickle the human mind, where money is involved! :laugh:sagefr0g said:
blackchipjim
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card phenom
I stopped interacting with other players for the most part anymore. I don't like to even sit down with more than two other people anymore because the law of stupid comes into play. I talk to the dealer and maybe someone else if they pass the stupid test otherwise it's dealer and pit only. These are dangerous times for smart players at lower limit tables filled with dummies. blackchipjim
I stopped interacting with other players for the most part anymore. I don't like to even sit down with more than two other people anymore because the law of stupid comes into play. I talk to the dealer and maybe someone else if they pass the stupid test otherwise it's dealer and pit only. These are dangerous times for smart players at lower limit tables filled with dummies. blackchipjim
RingyDingy
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well i only got one small voodoo experience, had this one guy at 3rd base chanting "ommmmm nummmm nummmm" quietly to himself with his eyes closed while the cards were dealt.
Didnt make a rats ass of difference and he was out of cash.
So id suggest another chapter 13. Sounds, Chants and Incantations
Didnt make a rats ass of difference and he was out of cash.
So id suggest another chapter 13. Sounds, Chants and Incantations
Katweezel
Well-Known Member
What may make a rat's arse
Another factor may have figured large as well. (And Sage, BCJim and others may note) And it is this: "Psychic table selection." For Jim, if your psychic abilities continue to develop at their current astounding rate, you will be able to avoid tables with any idiots on, absolutely without fail, from now on. Sage may wisely add here, with a very relevant sage-piece. RingyD, thanks for your timely addition. :grin:
Yeah, right RD. Your addition to the all-time Hall of Blackjack Fame (Voodoo edition) is now embedded as chapter #13. That guy you mentioned obviously was not chanting precisely enough. If he had seen zg for advice beforehand, things might have turned out differently.RingyDingy said:
Another factor may have figured large as well. (And Sage, BCJim and others may note) And it is this: "Psychic table selection." For Jim, if your psychic abilities continue to develop at their current astounding rate, you will be able to avoid tables with any idiots on, absolutely without fail, from now on. Sage may wisely add here, with a very relevant sage-piece. RingyD, thanks for your timely addition. :grin:
blackchipjim
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sizing up tables
I think you may have misinterpeted my statement to a degree. I can size up desperate people at a table and avoid bad situations by backcounting the tables. Too many flow people or nut cases brings down the playability of the table, coupled with a low or neutral count it's not worth sitting down. If you are talking about karma at the table that's a totally different thing altogether. I have sat down at quite a few tables with wack jobs playing and joined in with no problems at all. I personally like to sit at a table with people interested in making money by playing good bj but those tables at lower limits are far and few between. blackchipjim
I think you may have misinterpeted my statement to a degree. I can size up desperate people at a table and avoid bad situations by backcounting the tables. Too many flow people or nut cases brings down the playability of the table, coupled with a low or neutral count it's not worth sitting down. If you are talking about karma at the table that's a totally different thing altogether. I have sat down at quite a few tables with wack jobs playing and joined in with no problems at all. I personally like to sit at a table with people interested in making money by playing good bj but those tables at lower limits are far and few between. blackchipjim
Katweezel
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Solid gold-plated knucklebones
BCJim, I reread some posts and realized your psychic abilities are already accomplished; what with your 'lucky spots', focusing on 'table energy and electrical impulses', not to mention the 'random idea' that popped into your mind that caused you to pop a lazy 20 bucks in a vp machine and out came... 4 deuces. So your contribution to the voodoo casino psychic world has already been acknowledged to the head honchos of the Grand Clan.
Other prominent contributors are: zg for his 'psychotronics pendulum' to swing over his list so as to psychicly-select the 'best' casino for the day's action.
To Shadroch who can steer a 10 his way 'almost one third of the time.' (He thinks we don't know 16/52 is almost that... heh heh.)
To JohnD who thought praying while brandishing a big wooden cross and hamming it up at the same time might work, and provide good cover as well.
To 3 contributors whose wives or relatives all get an itchy palm as a premonition of impending good luck: Sage, BJCount and TakenFI.
And to Josh, who can feel the felt for a favorable 'cool' temperature as a signal to join that table.
All you guys are under consideration by the Grand Clan for an award to commemorate your contributions. The award takes the form of a mounted pair of solid gold-plated knucklebones, which will look fantastic on top of your TV. If you are lucky enough to get one of those, congratulations! :cat:
BCJim, I reread some posts and realized your psychic abilities are already accomplished; what with your 'lucky spots', focusing on 'table energy and electrical impulses', not to mention the 'random idea' that popped into your mind that caused you to pop a lazy 20 bucks in a vp machine and out came... 4 deuces. So your contribution to the voodoo casino psychic world has already been acknowledged to the head honchos of the Grand Clan.
Other prominent contributors are: zg for his 'psychotronics pendulum' to swing over his list so as to psychicly-select the 'best' casino for the day's action.
To Shadroch who can steer a 10 his way 'almost one third of the time.' (He thinks we don't know 16/52 is almost that... heh heh.)
To JohnD who thought praying while brandishing a big wooden cross and hamming it up at the same time might work, and provide good cover as well.
To 3 contributors whose wives or relatives all get an itchy palm as a premonition of impending good luck: Sage, BJCount and TakenFI.
And to Josh, who can feel the felt for a favorable 'cool' temperature as a signal to join that table.
All you guys are under consideration by the Grand Clan for an award to commemorate your contributions. The award takes the form of a mounted pair of solid gold-plated knucklebones, which will look fantastic on top of your TV. If you are lucky enough to get one of those, congratulations! :cat:
blackchipjim
Well-Known Member
abilites?
Mr.Katweezel I have no abilities that I know of only instances of uncanny coincedence. You have to believe that you have the ability and develope it much like long distance running. It is against what I believe in to harbor real thoughts of extra powers that a person may or may not posess. I take the whole discussion as more of muse than anthing else. To tell you the truth I wouldn't want to posess the ability knowing the power comes from a source that is here to decieve all mankind. blackchipjim
Mr.Katweezel I have no abilities that I know of only instances of uncanny coincedence. You have to believe that you have the ability and develope it much like long distance running. It is against what I believe in to harbor real thoughts of extra powers that a person may or may not posess. I take the whole discussion as more of muse than anthing else. To tell you the truth I wouldn't want to posess the ability knowing the power comes from a source that is here to decieve all mankind. blackchipjim
Katweezel
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Magical Flow of Cards
I sold out of snake oil. But to celebrate the arrival of my new wand, I have this week's special, (enough oomph for you to last until the end of the month with MFoC.) For just $19.95 PayPal, (less than half price) plus a fee to cover internet tedium and time-wasting, in lieu of P & H, I will pass my wand over your profile so as to cosmically energise your aura. Then, for the remainder of this month only, you will have attunement with The Magical Flow of Cards. It works on your spiritual energetic. Only while stocks last.
BCJim, I think you better let this one fly by. :cat:
I sold out of snake oil. But to celebrate the arrival of my new wand, I have this week's special, (enough oomph for you to last until the end of the month with MFoC.) For just $19.95 PayPal, (less than half price) plus a fee to cover internet tedium and time-wasting, in lieu of P & H, I will pass my wand over your profile so as to cosmically energise your aura. Then, for the remainder of this month only, you will have attunement with The Magical Flow of Cards. It works on your spiritual energetic. Only while stocks last.
BCJim, I think you better let this one fly by. :cat:
Katweezel
Well-Known Member
Tarzan said:
Hey Tarzan, I found this off a Patterson flyer:
"The purpose of this letter is to convince you that you can win at craps and roulette. That a well-designed money management method can overcome the house advantage. And that after 10 years of research I have found the methods that will do just that.... The house advantage at craps is about 1.4% (if you only play the pass line taking full odds) and about 2.13% at roulette (if you only play the outside numbers). But, I have become convinced that a workable and well-designed money management system can overcome the house advantage. And that is what I am offering you.... A player makes his point and a round of cheers greets his win. The next point is established.
A few more throws and he sevens out. Groans replace the cheers. Meanwhile what are you doing at this table? You are quietly grinding out a profit. The other players are winning, losing, winning, losing.. but you are taking down units of profit in a very consistent fashion.... Are you beginning to get the idea?
We are talking about a very disciplined approach to grinding out our profits.... We are content to grind out a profit. Table after table. Hour after hour.... At roulette we are exploiting a natural bias that occurs at every roulette table. And we are grinding out a profit at most tables. There are no table selection factors. You can use ROUGE ET COLONNE at any roulette table... The (craps) Method does not give you a mathematical advantage over the casinos... Properly applied, however, it will give you a winning edge....
You may have one more question: If these methods are so good, why doesn't everybody use them and drive the casinos out of business? Because the vast majority of casino players are gamblers who have no idea what discipline and money management are all about... People are greedy and this is what the casinos play on -- unadulterated greed. One final point bears repeating. I am not claiming to give you a mathematical advantage over the casino. I am claiming that, with the proper discipline and money management techniques, you can overcome the house advantage...."
So, there it is, straight from the horse's mouth, Jim Patterson. He can help us overcome our ... 'unadulterated greed', by overcoming the house edge at craps and roulette with a 'well-developed money management method' which was only 10 years in the making... I can't wait to buy it. Jim's system is at home down here in voodoo land. :cat:
Tarzan
Banned
Crap about craps
====A few more throws and he sevens out. Groans replace the cheers. Meanwhile what are you doing at this table? You are quietly grinding out a profit. The other players are winning, losing, winning, losing.. but you are taking down units of profit in a very consistent fashion.... Are you beginning to get the idea?====
Wait just a sec here--- "7 comes and everyone groans... except for you because with the amazo craps system you are the only one that didn't lose!!! Get it? Magic!!!! Hurry up and buy this system so you are all giggly and smiling when everyone else is groaning away!!!!"
I don't know anything about craps and don't play it but I often see some sad, long faces as I am strolling by those craps tables and desperate looking people with scraps of red chips in those little trays built into the table in front of them. This non-counting system for blackjack also covers craps and roulette? I didn't know that. Hell, guess I need to run right out and buy it, Kat!
I'm guessing this system is all about betting progression and riding the "flow of streaks and runs" sort of thing. I often hear people at the blackjack table say very peculiar, superstitious things and then use this as the basis of their betting strategy... sort of being able to psychically determine that they are on that winning streak/losing streak and go from there. There have been times when I have seen people win a few hands and then go "hog wild mental patient" with their betting (while I have an exact count and know all is not peachy keen and am betting minimums if anything) and I see an ugly slow motion train wreck occur with them.
Not like I haven't seen it go the other way also though! I watched a guy in a horribly poor count press his bets up due to wins in a row, make lots of basic strategy mistakes that would be to many of us here like fingernails on a chaulkboard and ABSOLUTELY WIN WIN WIN big fat money. Casinos love this sort of player as their windfall of incredible luck only works in the short term and they are guaranteed to hand it all back and then some eventually.
I heard that in Australia there's CSM's all over, Katweezel. Is there playable games there where you are at? Ones where I don't have to attempt to use my psychic ability and Jerry Patterson's system to try and win at?
====A few more throws and he sevens out. Groans replace the cheers. Meanwhile what are you doing at this table? You are quietly grinding out a profit. The other players are winning, losing, winning, losing.. but you are taking down units of profit in a very consistent fashion.... Are you beginning to get the idea?====
Wait just a sec here--- "7 comes and everyone groans... except for you because with the amazo craps system you are the only one that didn't lose!!! Get it? Magic!!!! Hurry up and buy this system so you are all giggly and smiling when everyone else is groaning away!!!!"
I don't know anything about craps and don't play it but I often see some sad, long faces as I am strolling by those craps tables and desperate looking people with scraps of red chips in those little trays built into the table in front of them. This non-counting system for blackjack also covers craps and roulette? I didn't know that. Hell, guess I need to run right out and buy it, Kat!
I'm guessing this system is all about betting progression and riding the "flow of streaks and runs" sort of thing. I often hear people at the blackjack table say very peculiar, superstitious things and then use this as the basis of their betting strategy... sort of being able to psychically determine that they are on that winning streak/losing streak and go from there. There have been times when I have seen people win a few hands and then go "hog wild mental patient" with their betting (while I have an exact count and know all is not peachy keen and am betting minimums if anything) and I see an ugly slow motion train wreck occur with them.
Not like I haven't seen it go the other way also though! I watched a guy in a horribly poor count press his bets up due to wins in a row, make lots of basic strategy mistakes that would be to many of us here like fingernails on a chaulkboard and ABSOLUTELY WIN WIN WIN big fat money. Casinos love this sort of player as their windfall of incredible luck only works in the short term and they are guaranteed to hand it all back and then some eventually.
I heard that in Australia there's CSM's all over, Katweezel. Is there playable games there where you are at? Ones where I don't have to attempt to use my psychic ability and Jerry Patterson's system to try and win at?