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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Casinos love this book,
This review is from: Powerful Profits: Winning Strategies for Casino Games (Paperback)
First of all, any book that suggests that a casino game with a house advantage can be beaten with any system must be regarded with suspicion. This book makes such claims, and in addition argues that the math performed by countless statisticians does not apply using his strategy.
The author's recommended strategies are poorly worded, and make little sense even after he explains them. My favorite example is after he describes his blackjack system where you raise bets when you lose a hand and decrease bets when you win. He then argues that this system works because you lose less during a losing streak and win more during a winning streak. I'm still trying to figure out exactly how that one works....maybe if I turn the book upside down it will make more sense.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Profitable Methods for Dedicated Smart Players,
By Casino King (Las Vegas, NV, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Powerful Profits: Winning Strategies for Casino Games (Paperback)
Whenever you play any casino game, using any playing method, there are usually three cardinal "sins" to avoid: 1. Don't consider any one event, or one experience, as the defining result. 2. Don't play undercapitalized. 3. Master the method before trying it. Anyone who has played casinos games with any profitable methods always knows this. A little knowledge, but without understanding of it, is dangerous. People who don't "get it" often make big mistakes, and then blame their losses on the method, instead on their own inexperience, and often misunderstanding. This is kind of like the carpenter blaming the hammer when he hits his thumb with it. In fact, the author of this book, and the many others he has written, says so plainly, and clearly, in all his books. The example of the carpenter is also used by him to make precisely this point. Sadly, some people will always have a problem with the "hammer", instead of the person using it. This is the case with the nice young man who has posted a review of the Craps methods here, for this book, and for the other books dealing with these methods. He seems like a very fine young man, who perhaps thought these methods were something like a "get rich quick" scheme. They are not. They are hard to master, especially the hardways methods used by the author in the section on Craps in this book. It takes many years to gain a successful mastery of some of these advanced concepts. The author makes this point many times, and plainly. He clearly states this, in no uncertain language. Playing any of these methods once, and with insufficient capital, and then blaming the method for any failure is simply wrong. It shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the very principles that the author so clearly states, and warms against. This book, and the other books by this author that mention any such playing methods -- however derived and no matter from which source -- require the player to understand at the very least the three fundamentals of successful method-gaming, those that are listed here, and understood by smart gamblers everywhere. The books are clear on all these subjects, and there are ample warnings by the author, who states repeatedly that these methods are advanced means of playing, and that they therefore require a great deal of expertise and understanding before they can be used successfully. The author makes it abundantly plain that this is essential to the success of these methods, and indeed any methods, even those from other authors or sources. Success in method-gambling is predicated on such expertise. If you don't have the dedication to learn it well, and practice it even more, before you try it, the fault lies with you, and not the book. The good news is that the author offers many other methods, those that are easier to master, and can be played even by casual players. But no matter how well they are described, the ultimate success always lies with the player himself or herself. The makers of the hammer can't possibly know how good the people using it will be. Sore thumbs the world over testify to the folly of blaming the instrument for the failure of the person using it. So, don't blame the book. Use this as a learning experience, and become better for it.
1.0 out of 5 stars
roulette is crap,
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This review is from: Powerful Profits: Winning Strategies for Casino Games (Paperback)
I read this book and the author doesn't take the time to verify his stats. On the system of roulette the quarters method he states you need a bankroll of 5200 min this is a lie you need at least 6200 min. He states that on the 11 12 13 spin if you win you recoup your money plus about a grand. Not so. Also on the 14th and 15th spin your risking 1250 and 1500 to supposedly win your money back --not so still at a loss. Also on the sections on thirds strategy he includes 26 in the 1st third but it should be 29. What a piss poor way of giving a strategy and of course I had to lose some money before I realized because you would think at least the math would be correct.
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