23 august 2009
Sorry! We are working very hard on this alleged draft. The fact remains that the book is in the form of a Word file I’m adding to right now. Grateful for advanced sales? Yes. (Mommy is the best!) It’s potentially due next week though I admit to some haziness as far as that [...]

( nwaonline )
posted by josh @ 23 august 2009

( lvrj )
posted by josh @ 23 august 2009

When formally trespassed (meaning: officially read a legalistic advisory of your non grata status by authorized personnel) from a Nevada casino, you may legally return. Morally, you may be obliged to; that’s a separate point. From a legal perspective the relevant precedent is the Wilkinson case. Money quote:
2. The evidence produced at the trial is [...]

It’s in British Columbia.
In addition to accepting $10K per week in wagers from citizen-addicts, the B.C. lottery plans to offer a full, Gibraltar-style range of online gambling options, says CBC News:
The B.C. Lottery Corp. is defending its decision to introduce casino games online that could generate up to $100 million a year in revenue by [...]

Canada’s Times Colonist editorializes contra increased loss limits in the British Columbia lottery’s online games. Yesterday, the allowed maximum loss shot up from $120 to $9,999 per player per week. The Liberal party, formerly opposed to state-run gambling, has overseen massive expansion:
[Liberals] were elected in 2001 on a promise to halt the expansion of [...]

But what draws you to the story is the image:

posted by josh @ 20 august 2009

( las vegas sun )
posted by josh @ 20 august 2009

Most sane Americans think of lotteries as a buck-a-week lark, and opt to avert their attention from desperate neighbors shelling out the grocery money for tix by the dozen once Powerball hits nine figures. But what’s true in Las Vegas is true of the lottery also: it’s the volume players — in large part lunatics [...]

The Chicago Tribune reports today that a couple was cited this weekend for leaving two imps in the van at one of the casinos in Joliet while gambling after midnight. August is becoming a bad month for this shit.
image from miro-foto’s flickr
posted by josh @ 19 august 2009

Lovable, cloying blackjack commentator John Stathis cites an inglourious period in MIT history in continuing his long-running argument that the Hi-Lo count is a fraud.
Stathis is wrong. There is no decades-old conspiracy between Vegas casinos and millionaire MIT mathematicians to defraud the susceptible public. I used to have a big boxful of money I could [...]

This sounds familiar:
A belligerent Sequim woman climbed onto a casino table, kicked a police officer and screamed “whale killer” during a bizarre scene Saturday night at the Point Casino, according to Kitsap County Sheriff’s Office reports.
The drunk act’s an obvious classic in the card-counting world. The “whale killer” act is a classic. The genius is [...]

posted by josh @ 18 august 2009

Sazerac Rye. It is bad. It was the $30 stuff at the good wine store nearby. I got it three days ago and here you can see how it’s gone. I’m trying to get through to the end of this Dark Draft of this unspeakable thing being written by me. Looking for help, and no [...]

( a sort of a high-level overview of counting cards )( a scrapbook of trespass notifications from shitholes where there was an issue )( a profile of my gambling style or lack of it)

In general you shouldn’t count cards. Nothing very meaningful will come of it. If you want to try learning, Snyder’s board is recommended; any post by Arnold Snyder himself you can trust. Wong also has good info on some basic points. With both of their message boards, the quality of posts and of posters varies [...]

posted by josh @ 18 august 2009

Sazerac (nearing the end)
Sazerac Rye. It is bad. It was the $30 stuff at the good wine store nearby. I got it three days ago and here you can see how it’s gone. I’m trying to get through to the end of this Dark Draft of this unspeakable thing being written by me. Looking for [...]

@jjjooooossshhh:

Spontaneity (from Casino Gambling and Consciousness)
There is something anguishing for each of us, to experience directly this tireless creation of an existence of which we are not the creators. At this level man has the impression of ceaselessly escaping from himself, of overflowing himself, of an abundance always unexpected taking him by surprise. And he [...]

@jjjooooossshhh:

I’m here, everywakingsecond:
For rights-related questions you fear will be over my head, my agent is Daniel Greenberg at Levine-Greenberg.
Caroline Garner at Penguin is the publicist for Repeat Until Rich. You can reach her like this:
  

( a book that i wrote with my own two hands )( an excerpt from my forthcoming memoir, Repeat Until Rich )( a reaction to seeing your own book appear for the first time on Amazon )( an interview discussing the writer’s life with Perforation Magazine )( a celebration of the completion of one’s manuscript [...]

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In general you shouldn’t count cards. Nothing very meaningful will come of it. If you want to try learning, Snyder’s board is recommended; any post by Arnold Snyder himself you can trust. Wong also has good info on some basic points. With both of their message boards, the quality of posts and of posters varies [...]