Posted by Ion Saliu on July 22, 2000.
In Reply to: Re: Put Your $ Where Your Mouth Is ION! posted by Ion Saliu on July 22, 2000.
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: Chip:
: • I don’t know exactly what happened to you after reading my post and prior to your latest reply. Did you have a few drinks to cool your anger? You are still trembling of anger in your message…
: The “message” of your post can be summarized as: “Don’t gamble, you never win!” You even invoke prestigious entities in this regard: Encyclopedia Britannica and Albert Einstein. By the way, Einstein did propose tongue in cheek a “roulette system”: Double up after each loss! See how ridiculous even a genius can be sometimes, especially when it’s none of his business? As a rule of thumb, you should always question everything, regardless who the author is. Otherwise, this sin is known as “the truth by authority”.
: Why didn’t you put “Don’t gamble, you never win!” as the headline of your famous “New York Times” advertisement for Powerplay roulette system? Secondly, after making the case on “gambler’s fallacy”, how can you still claim you are ahead $20,000 at baccarat? (By the way, is that enough for the house your partner just bought?) And why do you still keep your name secret, since you’ll be losing anyway? I can’t help it, I just have to ask a question from Pink Floyd’s “Money”: “Was he really drunk at the time?”
: I wouldn’t give the “Lizard of Odds” a dime, even I were facing the firing squad. Pay him $1,000 to test my system??? That is, give my systems away??? Are you nuts? And to whom? To an “authority” who never heard of the “probability formula of M successes in N trials”? An “authority” who sustains that tossing 200 heads in a row has the same chance as getting one heads? What other authorities you swear by? Blackjack authors who never ever implemented their ideas at the table! Peter Griffin himself admits being a lousy blackjack player. Edward O. Thorp was challenged by a real gambling theoretician AND player, John Scarne, to a blackjack test. Here is an excerpt from “Scarne’s New Complete Guide to Gambling”:
: “Thorp agreed and after the three days of play in Reno, Nevada, we realized that Thorp knew nothing about the science of BlackJack play, and his countdown system never seemed to work… Thorp later admitted to us that he never really gambled…” (page 348).
: Let’s return for a moment to our “Ferrari metaphor”. Your “racing” fear can be only explained one way. You claim your car is a Ferrari. In reality, it is tin resembling the shape and color of a Ferrari. The engine is taken from a cheap wrecked car…
: Ion Saliu
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• Here is the message "The Wizard of Odds" (?) sent to me on Sun 15 Nov 1998:
"Hi Ion:
You have a very interesting, unique, and informative page and I would be honored to include it on my hotlist. I was especially interested in your commens on internet casinos and your assertion that the probability of winning is negatively correlated with bet size. People ask me all the time about this all the time, and others tell me what you just did based on their own experience. I think it would be a very worthwhile project to write up your research in this area, it is something that numerous people want to know. This is the sort of thing that should merit grant money. If this interests you and you would like an independent evualation of the evidence I would be willing to volunteer. I'm familiar with hypothesis testing and the statistical methods to test whatever your results are...
Take care,
Mike
shack@charm.net"
Read who exactly Chip is in this legal document filed by Edward F. Stancik, Special Commissioner Of Investigation for the New York City School District, August 8, 2001: Frank Accardi, SCI Case #2001-0279.
If the legal document was archived to an unknown location, or deleted, read a saved copy in PDF: Legal Letter Regarding The Fraudulent Activity of Frank Accardi, a.k.a. Chip (requires Adobe Reader version 5 or later).
° According to Chip, the Power Play Roulette system sold for some $5,000. If so, then my Super Roulette Strategy must be worth at least $50,000! No exaggeration! But it's free, believe it or not! Read the Super Roulette Strategy page.
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