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John May Gaming Guru - Page 5 The Aces Gold Fiasco7 March 2002
We regret to inform you that as of today, Feb. 15, 2002, Seinpost Holding, parent company of AcesGoldCasino.com and Sports-Market.com has been declared insolvent and has been taken into bankruptcy proceedings by the Court of Netherlands Antilles in Curacao. This was the statement that sent dread through ... (read more)
Getting Rich from Gambling?17 February 2002
Gaming authors spend their time writing about how you can't get rich from gambling even though that was what got them interested in the first place. Be honest now. Who'd have bothered to look at gambling theory if you'd been told from the get-go you can spend six years studying advantage play and maybe ... (read more)
Blackjack Rankings4 January 2002
When I played with a high-stakes blackjack team, we had a rating system based on skill level. Where do you rank? CivilianThe blackjack player who relies completely on intuition or some simple system, such as "Mimic The Dealer" or "Never Bust". NeophyteThe player who has mastered basic strategy. ... (read more)
The Preferential Shuffle9 December 2001
The preferential shuffle is a legal cheating technique used by many casinos. When a dealer in a pitch game, instead of dealing some fixed number of rounds, seems to vary his shuffle point widely, be very suspicious. He may be counting the cards and dealing out more rounds when an excess of low-valued cards remain to be dealt, which puts the player at a huge disadvantage. ... (read more)
Can Computers Simulate Real-World Conditions?23 November 2001
A crucial debating point between card counters and proponents of "unscientific" methods such as card clumping and progressions concerns whether computers can simulate the real-world conditions gamblers play under. The answer is yes...and no. A computer can simulate a randomly shuffled game of blackjack perfectly. ... (read more)
Finding The Next Big Thing21 October 2001
Are you a blackjack player who is sick of the slow deterioration of games in Vegas? Or a poker player who has wisely decided that the competition is too tough at the level of play your bankroll would justify? Or maybe you are a sports bettor on a negative streak? Where do you go from here? Where is the next ... (read more)
Trente Et Quarante21 September 2001
Trente et quarante (meaning thirty and forty) is a card game popular in France but played elsewhere on the European continent. A croupier deals out two rows of cards (red and black or rouge et noir) sequentially. Players may bet on either colour row to win. Cards are counted face value and court cards count 10. ... (read more)
Are Dice Thrown Randomly?21 August 2001
Is it rational to say that dice are thrown randomly? Almost since craps has been invented, theorists have been arguing whether it is possible to shift the odds in your favour and achieve a huge percentage edge over the casinos. Can the crapshooter really do this? In the great, undecided dice control debate, much derision is heaped upon the proponents of dice control. ... (read more)
Guaranteed Profits on Sporting Events15 July 2001
Want to know how to make a profit on almost every sporting event--even before a ball has been thrown/struck/whatever in anger? I have discovered with most bookmakers that pence (or cents, francs, pfennigs, etc.) are rounded up. So if I make a bet of 1p at 6/4, I will actually make 3p when I should make 2.5p, effective odds being transformed from 6/4 to 2/1. ... (read more)
Betting Exchanges10 June 2001
Want to make a bet over the net with other gamblers on an event of your choosing? At better odds than with any bookmaker? With a secure system designed to prevent fraud? Now you can. The day of the betting exchange has begun. What is a betting exchange? An internet site (prominent examples being flutter.com or betfair.com) whereby gamblers can post and accept person-to-person wagers. ... (read more)
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