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Blackjack Insider Newsletter, April 2005, #63

-- Alexander Pope (1688–1744). Essay on Criticism.

As a college teacher, I am continually presenting the same elementary material. Each term, my goal is to find the right mix of words, examples, diagrams, and tempo to have students get it effortlessly and automatically. I have a pile of books 30 deep to choose from for each course. There is no end of authors who think they have found the right way to explain the ideas. But explaining the ideas is not enough. It takes a teacher to complete the package. Teachers are there to inspire, encourage, stimulate, motivate, and ultimately judge the student’s accomplishments. In the end, very few students get an "A", which means very few students understand the course in its entirety. While the penalty for a lack of excellence is just a letter grade for students, for those of us who venture into casinos the penalty is our hard earned cash.

It takes an "A" to beat a casino, a grade that very few have the talent or motivation to earn. This inability to beat casinos extends beyond those who don’t bother or don’t care (we call these individuals "ploppies"). Losing reaches right into the middle of our clan: to those who read the books and use the simulator software, to those who ask intelligent questions and study hard, to those who play hundreds of hours. There is a silent epidemic of losing among us.

I have a friend who "knows" High-Low card counting...

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