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30 Aug 2016, 12:28 pm

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I don't even have a comment after reading that title....what they thought 'bring an autistic friend gambling and you can't lose any money.'?


idiocy.

Yep. It doesn't work so well with parimutuel games unless the Shanghaied autist knows a lot about horses and their jockeys.


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30 Aug 2016, 1:17 pm

The girls at the factory that I worked at kept asking me if I could count cards. They also asked me if I did drugs or if I've ever had sex.


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30 Aug 2016, 6:07 pm

Counting cards only applies to blackjack (because they dont reshuffle the deck with each hand). Not to any other casino game.

The pros dont actually memorize each card dealt. They use some short hand counting system, or other. The most basic is the hi-lo technique: low cards get plus one, middle cards zero, and high cards minus one. You keep a running a total in your head as the cards are dealt. The higher the count goes the better your odds are.

Some MIT math nerds formed a club and perfected a way to briefly "break Vegas" (and Atlantic City, and points in between) by exploiting the hi-lo technique. Person A would play at the blackjack table, and when the total got high enough to equal some magic number that meant the odds were good person A would secretly signal person B to join the table and person B would drop money at the crucial moment for a win. Didnt always work but over the long run it got them millions - before the casinos caught on to them and they got into deep doo doo. This real life 'revenge of the nerds' meets 'Oceans Eleven' story was itself the basis of the movie "Twenty One" starring John Cusack.

You can practice the high-low technique by going through the deck of 52 and keeping the running total in your head. If you get to the end and your total is zero you have probably done it right. I can do that practice thing quite fast. But have yet to use it in real game.

Dont know if it helps to be autistic or not.



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02 Sep 2016, 9:54 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:
The girls at the factory that I worked at kept asking me if I could count cards. They also asked me if I did drugs or if I've ever had sex.


What did you tell them? Maybe that was an invitation for a really big night on the town?



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02 Sep 2016, 9:56 pm

counting cards is easy, with or without autism. Anyone can do it if they're properly trained.


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03 Oct 2019, 4:07 pm

Nah, buddy, that's nothing, I am playing with a friend of mine in online casino and I am always winning on the casino I play, he is playing on another, so he is always losing, and he wants to try in the one I play. Guess what? I shared with him [url=http: site and he started to earn money, even more than I do. I am so jealous.



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03 Oct 2019, 5:30 pm

I don't think Rainman was authentic. Who can go from an institutional life to wild adventures without at least a week to recover between them?



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14 Jul 2020, 2:25 pm

This Comedian says it all:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRRztomz-TI


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15 Jul 2020, 3:54 am

I avoid games of chance whoever possible. If work on the premise that the house always wins (whether it be a casino, the racetrack, the stock market, or the state lottery), you can pretty much guarantee that you won’t get into trouble (although there always new ways that can happen,)



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06 Oct 2020, 4:13 pm

To be true, I'm not surprised that you lost so much money. I don't want to offend anyone, but you didn't have much chance of winning big. My friends and I often play in the casino and we rarely manage to win a large amount of money.