Blackjack trivia test
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Some of the questions are subjective, debatable, or just silly, but I enjoyed it. I scored a 160. It styles itself an "IQ test", but isn't. And no, I have no idea what LVHCM refers to.
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UPDATE: a commentator tells me LVHCM stands for Las Vegas Hole Card Mafia.
posted by Glen @ 8:58 PM
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The LVHCM is a group of highly skilled professional advantage players who give back to the advantage player community by exposing the frauds and wannabes in the industry.
So-called "experts" such as Stanford Wong and Don Schlesinger actually do more harm to the community via their duplicity than the established conmen such as Jerry Patterson or John Patrick.
The LVHCM is such a feared group in the conman filled world of advantage play that virtually every web site devoted to blackjack is heavily censored for fear their con is exposed by this group.
ooookay... backs away slowlySeriously, though: how does Stanford Wong merit the scare quotes? He's definitely an expert. I've found his advice generally reliable. On those occasions when he's made a mistake, he generally catches it and fesses up quickly enough.
For instance, there was the Carson City Nugget fiasco...
I tend to trust Wong. Are you one of those "nonrandom shuffle" guys?
You can email me at "blogjack (at) gmail (dot) com" if you don't want to use this comments field...
*how does Stanford Wong merit the scare quotes? He's definitely an expert. I've found his advice generally reliable. On those occasions when he's made a mistake, he generally catches it and fesses up quickly enough.*To quote Wong from the Robert V. Lux interview:
I probably was a top-level player at one time, but I have not kept my playing skills up to date. I do not, for example, know how to shuffle track or locate aces. I could bring my game to a higher level if I wanted to, but I'd rather devote my time to managing my business and my websites, and to creating new material.
Yes, Wong was definitely an expert on blackjack...20-25 YEARS AGO! He has not played serious blackjack vs a casino in many a moon. For the last several years, he has traded on that once proud reputation to now fleece the new breed of wannabe advantage players with an endless array of worthless books, software, hats, shirts, bells, whistles, etc.
Wong turned his attention a few years ago away from the tables and on to sportsbetting (an endeavor he failed miserably at btw), writing the obligatory worthless book and creating a new worthless web site.
Today, he is currently busy aligning himself with the *dice control* ripoff artists at goldentouch.com, penning yet another waste of trees and fleecing his nearly endless supply of sheep (i.e. wannabes) out of even more cash. Perhaps THE most dangerous, most duplicitous figure on the public scene.
*I tend to trust Wong.* Trusting Wong would be a grave error in judgement my friend.
*Are you one of those "nonrandom shuffle" guys?*Do you mean shuffletracking or is this supposed to be some sort of dig?
*You can email me at "blogjack (at) gmail (dot) com" if you don't want to use this comments field...*The LVHCM has nothing to hide.
There's an old saying I've always liked: "In a gold rush, the real money goes to the guy who sells the picks and shovels."
Wong has effectively gone into management. Other people do the work of scouting good games and coming up with interesting strategies, and Wong turns the info into books, newsletters and website postings. There's nothing wrong with this. It's kind of like the role David Copperfield plays among magicians - popularizer more than innovator. The price of success.
I'd argue with your assertions, but you haven't really said anything yet. It would be nice if you pointed to anything Wong has said that's actually false.
As for "dice control", it's an interesting field. If you haven't viewed Steve Forte's gambler's protection tape series, I highly recommend it. The guy knows his stuff. I haven't tried to learn "dice control", but all the card moves he demonstrates in the poker/blackjack section work just as demonstrated - they are difficult but not impossible to replicate with sufficient practice, and I've learned some of them - so I'm inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt on the dice techniques.
If you don't want to be viewed as a crank, make your criticisms specific enough that I can tell the difference between YOUR "Wong is wrong" claims and those that would be made by somebody like John Patrick.
Talk about your strawmen...I point out that Wong has aligned himself with known scam artists and you spin it to Steve Forte! Well played.
Yes, there might be seven people in the world who can control the dice. Wong is not, will never be, and will never know any of them.
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