Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Bringing Down the House week 4
In these chapters Kevin starts to play with the blackjack team and Kevin starts out as a spoter. Kevin is still clueless on how much they will actually be making from this so he is surprised to hear that from his 6 hour shift, the team made 38,000$, which means that he made 2,500$. The majority of the money goes to Mickey and the other investors which does include Fisher and Martinez who have kind of upgraded to small investors in order to make more money for their work. Fisher and Martinez are the big players which makes their jobs the highest risking and they should be paid a whole lot more money, more money then even the investors who shouldnt even be their considering that Fisher, Martinez and the others have enough funds to fund their own team without Mickey or the investors. Mickey is a useless coach of the team and makes well over 50% of the money, and he never even plays a single hand for the team because of how dangerous to the casinos he is. Just to try it out the team(Martinez and Fisher) allow Kevin to be something more then just a spotter on his 2nd night of blackjack, but instead of being a big player they allow him to be a Gorilla which is where you wait for the count to be high and then just throw your chips in without thinking until the count is low, which is differant then a big player because a big player would split, double down, vary his bets based on the complex formula that they have. One thing i learned which i think would really give the counters an advantage is playing more then 1 hand at a time at one table. I had no idea that you were able to do this, but if the count is high it would be very beneficial to have a bunch of hands going.
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Charlie,
Thanks for pointing that out. I will fix it now and send you an updated report tomorrow morning. Unfortunately, I can't do that from home.
Mrs. B.
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