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		<title>Comment on Blackjack Strategy: Never Split a Pair of Tens by BENJAMIN</title>
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		<title>Comment on New Book Promises to Help You Beat Blackjack by Dr. Kevin D. Whitburn</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dr. Kevin D. Whitburn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 14:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Jeremy:
I can arrange for you to see a courtesy copy of my book.  In it you will see that it not a simple betting system, but an entirely new playing system having three primary components.  It borrows Basic Strategy, which brings the player&#039;s advantage just 0.5% shy of break-even with the house.  From this base, it achieves the critical cross-over to provide the player&#039;s advantage through a system of tactical exits from the table, triggered by mathematically determined pre-sets in the player&#039;s bankroll.  This advantage is then optimized through a coordinated bet-boosting scheme.  The size of the player&#039;s master bankroll is also optimized using methods borrowed from the world of finance.
The source of the exit pre-sets is the fundamental imbalance in the rules-of-play in BJ, between the player and the dealer.  Specifically, by following my prescribed methodical style of play, there exists a short-term asymmetry in the player&#039;s bankroll distribution, which is exploited by the optimized choice of the exit pre-sets.  This aspect of the game is not intuitive, and has only been revealed through my careful scientific analysis of the bankroll in actual game play.  
My detailed research on actual game play has also shown that there is no measurable winning advantage attributable to conventional card counting in play using multi-deck shoes with substantial cut-offs, or using auto-shuffle machines.  While counting does not provide a usable advantage in gaming the card flow, my research shows that it does provide an important random boosting of the betting.  This latter aspect has been integrated into my strategy, without the need to count cards.
If you would like to contact me at info@moststrategy.com, we can arrange for you to get a courtesy copy of the MOST Strategy to review.  I explain in my book why a single session at the casino may not be sufficient for you to reliably field test my system....and that goes either way, even if you have a good win with it.  Also, as I mentioned in my last response to your comments, the system is validated mathematically.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Jeremy:<br />
I can arrange for you to see a courtesy copy of my book.  In it you will see that it not a simple betting system, but an entirely new playing system having three primary components.  It borrows Basic Strategy, which brings the player&#8217;s advantage just 0.5% shy of break-even with the house.  From this base, it achieves the critical cross-over to provide the player&#8217;s advantage through a system of tactical exits from the table, triggered by mathematically determined pre-sets in the player&#8217;s bankroll.  This advantage is then optimized through a coordinated bet-boosting scheme.  The size of the player&#8217;s master bankroll is also optimized using methods borrowed from the world of finance.<br />
The source of the exit pre-sets is the fundamental imbalance in the rules-of-play in BJ, between the player and the dealer.  Specifically, by following my prescribed methodical style of play, there exists a short-term asymmetry in the player&#8217;s bankroll distribution, which is exploited by the optimized choice of the exit pre-sets.  This aspect of the game is not intuitive, and has only been revealed through my careful scientific analysis of the bankroll in actual game play.<br />
My detailed research on actual game play has also shown that there is no measurable winning advantage attributable to conventional card counting in play using multi-deck shoes with substantial cut-offs, or using auto-shuffle machines.  While counting does not provide a usable advantage in gaming the card flow, my research shows that it does provide an important random boosting of the betting.  This latter aspect has been integrated into my strategy, without the need to count cards.<br />
If you would like to contact me at <a href="mailto:info@moststrategy.com">info@moststrategy.com</a>, we can arrange for you to get a courtesy copy of the MOST Strategy to review.  I explain in my book why a single session at the casino may not be sufficient for you to reliably field test my system&#8230;.and that goes either way, even if you have a good win with it.  Also, as I mentioned in my last response to your comments, the system is validated mathematically.</p>
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		<title>Comment on Open Letter to Dr. Kevin Whitburn by Dr. Kevin D. Whitburn</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dr. Kevin D. Whitburn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I appreciate your open-mindedness to at least consider the possibility that MOST might have a genuine scientific basis.  Before I give you courtesy access to my system, I would like to have one more opportunity to steer your initial negative bias back to neutral, before you review it, by openly responding to your latest concerns.  We can work out the details of your access later.

Your primary concern is on my reluctance to field test MOST in casino play to “validate” it, and my reliance on two mathematical tests of its ability.  In Chapter 5, my crucial replay test is applied to a running bankroll sequence of wins/losses/pushes from 1000 hands of actual game play. Then the exact same numerical sequence is reprocessed using my tactical exits.  The replayed version exhibits an unmistakable up-tilt towards more winnings, in a way that is precisely predictable from the mathematics that isolates the positive advantage.  It&#039;s not much of an up-tilt, but it&#039;s as much as the imbalance in the player/dealer rules-of-play will allow.

In my e-book, I also show the same predictable up-tilt on a random simulation of 3200 hands of play.  There&#039;s no need to keep repeating this effect, because Math tells us that what applies to any one such random sequence, applies to all of them from the same source.  And that source is my Standard Play, the methodical playing style you must follow to exploit this advantage.  One aspect of it is Basic Strategy.  The other is a bet-boosting style that mimics the randomness and frequency that conventional card-counting offers, but, it does it much more easily.

Also, you might be interested to learn about the field testing of the classics in the BJ literature, Basic Strategy and card counting, before they were openly published.  In Ed Thorp&#039;s original work, published in 1962, his field test consisted of 30 man-hours of play (he and two others over a weekend in the Reno area).  If you do a rough statistical analysis of that amount of play to assess a confidence that his winnings were due to his system, as opposed to plain luck, the result is not much better than a coin toss that his system was the driver.  It takes a lot more than 30 hours of play to pluck a 3% win signal out of an ocean of random noise, with black-and-white confidence.

And what about Peter Griffin&#039;s masterpiece-work on card counting?  No field testing was conducted before publication in 1979; it&#039;s validation was all mathematical.  He didn&#039;t call his book &quot;The Theory of Blackjack&quot; for nothing!

To non-mathematicians, math validation seems second-rate or a cop-out somehow, but it depends on the problem being addressed.  In the field of cryptography (codes and cyphers), for example, no one would trust a coding algorithm UNTIL it is validated mathematically.  Math can actually cross check itself.  I truly regret that my system is validated mathematically in my e-book, which means that many folks will not be able to understand it, but my logical alternative is also flawed.

Would you prefer that I publish a field-test showing my system works well, that might just be perceived as a cherry-picked example of a run of good luck?  You would trust my test data, but not my math approach?  Wouldn&#039;t I have to show you that it&#039;s statistically significant, and wouldn&#039;t that be more incomprehensible math to many readers.  You have set me a hurdle that is impossible to clear, simply because most folk are not math-oriented.  Or, would you prefer that I invent a bunch of glowing testimonials about my system, as other system promoters do?

Or would you like your science served straight up, explained in layman&#039;s terms as much as possible, so you can make an informed judgment, and see for yourself that it all fits together.  Plus it&#039;s been peer-reviewed by experts in financial statistics.  That&#039;s how science gets done.  At some point, you have to trust the established integrity of the researcher.  I have over 30 years of experience in scientific research, and 28 peer-reviewed papers in the primary literature.  I don’t demand that you buy it; the choice is yours, based on whether the perceived pay-off is justified by the supporting material.

My comparison with financial markets also concerns you.  As I explain in my book, when a system, which is effectively one of statistical arbitrage in the casino-financial market, has isolated a trader’s advantage, it deserves to be compared with other conventional investments.  I explicitly state that this is not a logical alternative to using MOST, which is of course, to continue playing BJ without it.  But the comparison with financial markets is instructive in showing a couple of things.  One is the accelerated time-scale the casino offers to MOST users, relative to the financial markets to hedge-fund traders, when these are compared on an annualized basis. 

The second is that MOST’s Exit Range Strategy is based on an empirical, validated, Normal distribution in the player’s bankroll as one critical component.  Normal distributions are mathematically very well-behaved.  The distributions used in econometric models are unique to their particular market, and exhibit variable “fat tail kurtosis”.  They lack any mathematical universality, and are only useful approximations to the prevailing markets conditions.  As such, they are vulnerable to fundamental market changes, like sudden stampedes for liquidation.  My point is this:  the math behind MOST is much more reliable than that behind market models.  As long as the basic rules of BJ stay the same, the distributions behind the MOST advantage are unchangeable.  There can be no surprises.  Also, I explicitly state that MOST must never be considered as an alternative to conventional nest-egg investing.

Anyway, all of these issues are elaborated in my e-book.  The first two chapters are available free at MOSTStrategy.com, and can really orient your thinking to understand what my system is all about.  Remember, you don&#039;t have to understand its math to use it.

One last thought:  If you had discovered a statistical advantage hidden in the game rules of BJ for all these years, what would you do?  And as I say in my book, the price is somewhat arbitrary, without an established market to guide me.  What should I be charging for it?  I would really appreciate your help on that matter.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I appreciate your open-mindedness to at least consider the possibility that MOST might have a genuine scientific basis.  Before I give you courtesy access to my system, I would like to have one more opportunity to steer your initial negative bias back to neutral, before you review it, by openly responding to your latest concerns.  We can work out the details of your access later.</p>
<p>Your primary concern is on my reluctance to field test MOST in casino play to “validate” it, and my reliance on two mathematical tests of its ability.  In Chapter 5, my crucial replay test is applied to a running bankroll sequence of wins/losses/pushes from 1000 hands of actual game play. Then the exact same numerical sequence is reprocessed using my tactical exits.  The replayed version exhibits an unmistakable up-tilt towards more winnings, in a way that is precisely predictable from the mathematics that isolates the positive advantage.  It&#8217;s not much of an up-tilt, but it&#8217;s as much as the imbalance in the player/dealer rules-of-play will allow.</p>
<p>In my e-book, I also show the same predictable up-tilt on a random simulation of 3200 hands of play.  There&#8217;s no need to keep repeating this effect, because Math tells us that what applies to any one such random sequence, applies to all of them from the same source.  And that source is my Standard Play, the methodical playing style you must follow to exploit this advantage.  One aspect of it is Basic Strategy.  The other is a bet-boosting style that mimics the randomness and frequency that conventional card-counting offers, but, it does it much more easily.</p>
<p>Also, you might be interested to learn about the field testing of the classics in the BJ literature, Basic Strategy and card counting, before they were openly published.  In Ed Thorp&#8217;s original work, published in 1962, his field test consisted of 30 man-hours of play (he and two others over a weekend in the Reno area).  If you do a rough statistical analysis of that amount of play to assess a confidence that his winnings were due to his system, as opposed to plain luck, the result is not much better than a coin toss that his system was the driver.  It takes a lot more than 30 hours of play to pluck a 3% win signal out of an ocean of random noise, with black-and-white confidence.</p>
<p>And what about Peter Griffin&#8217;s masterpiece-work on card counting?  No field testing was conducted before publication in 1979; it&#8217;s validation was all mathematical.  He didn&#8217;t call his book &#8220;The Theory of Blackjack&#8221; for nothing!</p>
<p>To non-mathematicians, math validation seems second-rate or a cop-out somehow, but it depends on the problem being addressed.  In the field of cryptography (codes and cyphers), for example, no one would trust a coding algorithm UNTIL it is validated mathematically.  Math can actually cross check itself.  I truly regret that my system is validated mathematically in my e-book, which means that many folks will not be able to understand it, but my logical alternative is also flawed.</p>
<p>Would you prefer that I publish a field-test showing my system works well, that might just be perceived as a cherry-picked example of a run of good luck?  You would trust my test data, but not my math approach?  Wouldn&#8217;t I have to show you that it&#8217;s statistically significant, and wouldn&#8217;t that be more incomprehensible math to many readers.  You have set me a hurdle that is impossible to clear, simply because most folk are not math-oriented.  Or, would you prefer that I invent a bunch of glowing testimonials about my system, as other system promoters do?</p>
<p>Or would you like your science served straight up, explained in layman&#8217;s terms as much as possible, so you can make an informed judgment, and see for yourself that it all fits together.  Plus it&#8217;s been peer-reviewed by experts in financial statistics.  That&#8217;s how science gets done.  At some point, you have to trust the established integrity of the researcher.  I have over 30 years of experience in scientific research, and 28 peer-reviewed papers in the primary literature.  I don’t demand that you buy it; the choice is yours, based on whether the perceived pay-off is justified by the supporting material.</p>
<p>My comparison with financial markets also concerns you.  As I explain in my book, when a system, which is effectively one of statistical arbitrage in the casino-financial market, has isolated a trader’s advantage, it deserves to be compared with other conventional investments.  I explicitly state that this is not a logical alternative to using MOST, which is of course, to continue playing BJ without it.  But the comparison with financial markets is instructive in showing a couple of things.  One is the accelerated time-scale the casino offers to MOST users, relative to the financial markets to hedge-fund traders, when these are compared on an annualized basis. </p>
<p>The second is that MOST’s Exit Range Strategy is based on an empirical, validated, Normal distribution in the player’s bankroll as one critical component.  Normal distributions are mathematically very well-behaved.  The distributions used in econometric models are unique to their particular market, and exhibit variable “fat tail kurtosis”.  They lack any mathematical universality, and are only useful approximations to the prevailing markets conditions.  As such, they are vulnerable to fundamental market changes, like sudden stampedes for liquidation.  My point is this:  the math behind MOST is much more reliable than that behind market models.  As long as the basic rules of BJ stay the same, the distributions behind the MOST advantage are unchangeable.  There can be no surprises.  Also, I explicitly state that MOST must never be considered as an alternative to conventional nest-egg investing.</p>
<p>Anyway, all of these issues are elaborated in my e-book.  The first two chapters are available free at MOSTStrategy.com, and can really orient your thinking to understand what my system is all about.  Remember, you don&#8217;t have to understand its math to use it.</p>
<p>One last thought:  If you had discovered a statistical advantage hidden in the game rules of BJ for all these years, what would you do?  And as I say in my book, the price is somewhat arbitrary, without an established market to guide me.  What should I be charging for it?  I would really appreciate your help on that matter.</p>
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		<title>Comment on New Book Promises to Help You Beat Blackjack by Jeremy</title>
		<link>http://www.onlineblackjack.org/blog/?p=335&#038;cpage=1#comment-90</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dr. Whitburn,

I did view your website before writing the blog and stand by my story. If you would like to prove me wrong, instead of offering two chapters, why not let me have the entire book for free? I can then take it to a casino for testing and let the world know the results.</description>
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<p>I did view your website before writing the blog and stand by my story. If you would like to prove me wrong, instead of offering two chapters, why not let me have the entire book for free? I can then take it to a casino for testing and let the world know the results.</p>
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		<title>Comment on New Book Promises to Help You Beat Blackjack by Dr. Kevin D. Whitburn</title>
		<link>http://www.onlineblackjack.org/blog/?p=335&#038;cpage=1#comment-86</link>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Kevin D. Whitburn</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Unfortunately, you and other bloggers, are not taking my advice at the end of my recent press release, and getting the details of my playing system from my website, MOSTStrategy.com  Too much of your misunderstanding comes from using the press release as a sole source, rather than as a conduit to the website.  I would advise you to read the Overview link in the nav bar, which gives infinitely more detail to enable you to understand the scientific basis of this playing system.  Two chapters are available for free to better introduce you to what MOST is all about.  And as for confirmation of my credentials as a scientist, try googling my name and see how many of my publications in the scientific literature pop up.  (I&#039;m not the gay KW who was harassed in the UK).
Fortunately, your inability to understand it does not negate that fact that it does offer a positive player&#039;s advantage in an entirely new way.  Most people don&#039;t understand how sending electrons down a wire creates a television image at the other end, but no one doubts that it works.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Unfortunately, you and other bloggers, are not taking my advice at the end of my recent press release, and getting the details of my playing system from my website, MOSTStrategy.com  Too much of your misunderstanding comes from using the press release as a sole source, rather than as a conduit to the website.  I would advise you to read the Overview link in the nav bar, which gives infinitely more detail to enable you to understand the scientific basis of this playing system.  Two chapters are available for free to better introduce you to what MOST is all about.  And as for confirmation of my credentials as a scientist, try googling my name and see how many of my publications in the scientific literature pop up.  (I&#8217;m not the gay KW who was harassed in the UK).<br />
Fortunately, your inability to understand it does not negate that fact that it does offer a positive player&#8217;s advantage in an entirely new way.  Most people don&#8217;t understand how sending electrons down a wire creates a television image at the other end, but no one doubts that it works.</p>
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		<title>Comment on New Book Promises to Help You Beat Blackjack by Gretta Ganner</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gretta Ganner</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is the book been released in the market already? can&#039;t wait to get one.</description>
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