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Jerry Patterson Columns
Advantage Player - How to Execute a Controlled Shot
If you’re a right-handed shooter, throwing from stick-left, you will stand parallel to the table with the arm rail across your front mid-section. The forearm of your non-throwing arm will be flat along the chip rail for support.
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Advantage Player - Harvey Dubner - The Forgotten Man of Blackjack
It is interesting to speculate on what might have transpired if nothing more would have been done in the development of card counting systems following the 1962 publication of Thorp’s book. The game certainly would not have been as popular because of reasons noted in earlier articles and few, if any, additional Blackjack books might have been published...
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Advantage Player - Sharpshooter’s Las Vegas Diary
I kept a journal on my last trip out to Vegas. Good, bad or ugly, I was going to tell it like it was, complete with Sharpshooter insights. The team wasn’t with me on this one, so I had three full days to frolic on the Strip’s south side as I saw fit...
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Advantage Player - Calculate the Player Advantage
If you could simply set the dice on the desired result without having to throw them, you have controlled the dice 100%. If you could set the dice and just slide them a few feet carefully down a Teflon surface, you would have the desired result, maybe 90% of the time. Now envision the dice being lightly tossed through the air into a sandbox. As they land, they sink into the sand slightly and do not bounce. Under these circumstances, the dice can be controlled about 70% of the time...
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Advantage Player - Dice Control Setting the Dice
The idea of dice control has been around for years. I first heard about it in the early ’80s when an elderly gentleman in one of my craps classes demonstrated how to set and how to throw the cubes...
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Advantage Player - Dice Control
Knowledgeable gamblers have long recognized “The Big 4” — blackjack, poker, sports betting and thoroughbred racing — as the standard games in which an astute player can actually turn the odds in his favor and achieve an advantage over the casino...
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