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Misc WizardOfVegas Forum is Dying

Discussion in 'Miscellaneous Gambling Forum' started by LovePotion9, Sep 5, 2015.

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  1. Mission146

    Mission146 Well-Known Member

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    Other than yourself, who is talking? I'd like to know. I certainly have never referred to myself as an, "Accomplished," writer.

    I agree that Face is a tremendous writer, he has me in spades. He has never shown a ton of interest in gambling, though, as I'm sure he would acknowledge. With my knowledge of gambling, he'd write circles around me, no doubt. I'm in no position to make an offer, but if he wanted to develop his gambling knowledge, I'm certain he could write for the sites.
     
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    Also, not generally one to brag or even really mention my writing here without others mentioning it first...but let's go ahead and discuss my writing in terms of value to LCB. We can assume they wouldn't have me continue to write were I not adding value, I think we can agree on that.

    In the last two weeks, I've written articles which, at 11,751, 8,645 and 7,236 have the most page views (1st, 2nd and 3rd) of all articles written for LCB, ever. To my knowledge, only one of those articles was, "Pumped." (In fairness, and not at all coincidentally, the one with 10k+ views) In the meantime, I also wrote a, "Non-pumped," article in the last two weeks that has the eighth most page views of all nearly 10,000 LCB articles, ever. Finally, previous articles have the 11th and 14th slots.

    Other articles have far fewer views, naturally. As has been disparagingly mentioned, one can expect a lot of detail....much of it often technical...in my Articles. If you're into that sort of thing, good. If not, sorry. As far as any detractors are concerned, I'll let my numbers speak for themselves for the time being.

    While there are sites that would hit that number of page views in literal minutes, let's not forget the niche nature of the subject matter.
     
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  3. Mickey Crimm

    Mickey Crimm Well-Known Member

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    Mission, I enjoy your articles. But then I'm one who likes to soak up knowledge on all things gambling. You've probably noticed that the ones giving you flak over your writing have very little gambling knowledge and don't really care to learn anything on the subject.
     
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    Those numbers are wonderful. But since you seem to be the only one 'writing' for that site, are they fair? Are they meaningful?
    Shanks little paragraphs about casino drag queen shows don't really count as writing.
    And you do realize that page counts are just that, page counts, where one can click back and forth a hundred times a session.
     
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  5. Mission146

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    Thanks for the compliment, Mickey! My articles are best for someone such as yourself, who wants to soak up everything he can. Many of my articles are also tremendous for people who don't know much about gambling, but wish to learn. While I write about many different gambling-related things, by far, the ones I most enjoy are those in which I have the opportunity to teach people something.
     
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  6. Mission146

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    I'm not talking about WoV, that would indeed be a ridiculous pat on my own back. I'm talking about LCB, which has quite a few active writers. As of this post, there have been 8,902 articles in the, "News," section written for LCB and mine comprise a small percentage of the total articles.
     
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  7. oopsididitagain

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    Gamblers are the most famous persons that no one will ever hear of. They are divided and conquered even within their own little world, as they eat each others' brains. Sort of like your own personal, anonymous version of terrorism. It's comforting to know that such fake "clowns" will never leave the page.
     
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  8. MrV

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    And let's not forget about the resident tranny at WoV.

    Not that there's anything wrong with that.
     
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  9. Ozzy

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    That Wetback NAREED is long gone .
     
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  10. freddy

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    Another weirdo that fit right in at "Mike's house". Number 3 in posts on WOV with over 11,000 even though he doesn't post there anymore. No 2 poster on Shackleford's colossal failure, Diversity Tomorrow, with over 10,000 posts...a scant couple of hundred behind Spike, who always has to be number one.

    Talk about me me me, Nareed may have invented me me me. He sure had the munchkins eating out of his hand as they cheered on his lifestyle. And don't dare question him on it or he'll cry foul and demand a suspension.

    Funny thing is, Nareed just went red on the DT board. I couldn't find a specific reason but didn't look long...can't stomach that site for more than a few minutes. Maybe his shoes clashed with his dress or his bra was lopsided.

    By the bye, truces go way back on WoV...nothing new there. Nareeed and Dr SOOPOOP
    had one imposed on them a while back. I think it was over the Fat Blonde. Nareed was defending one of "the girls" and Dr POOP was allegedly treating her badly.

    Why is WOV dying? Do ipI have to spell it out?
     
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  11. oopsididitagain

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    For the rest of us, it's spelled internet "comic strip". You couldn't pay people to make and act out this stuff. ;)
     
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  12. Ozzy

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    How low can WizardOfNothing( StrictlyAP) sink, he posts in the Dan Lubin (PAIGOWDAN) recently deceased, donation thread, about FATBLOND welching the weight loss challenge bet. What goes around comes around STRICTLYWELCHER.....I mean WizardOfNothing:eek:
     
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    Maybe, but that didn't stop you from throwing Alan a life preserver at VCT when the issue of him allegedly seeing eighteen yo's in a row rolled at Caesars.

    You first recited the same three possibilities that I had posted at WoV: either it happened, he's lying, or he had a medical issue which affected his perception.

    But then you threw him this outlandish bone, akin to the so-called PSA which you referenced above:

    "But there is a fourth option -- namely that some non-random dice had been inserted into the game, and somehow they generated the yo(s). Why this would or could happen, I have no idea. But given the information at my disposal, it seems like an explanation that covers all of the bases reasonably well."

    Sure, either the casino did it, god only knows why (!) or a player did it, but since nobody bet the yo no money was won.
     
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    (Emphasis Mine)

    It's the second part that was always my problem with the story! I can understand EV and all of that all I want, but at some point, there's a part of me that's just a fucking gambler that's going to take over after the fifth or sixth consecutive, 'Yo,' something like that!

    The main argument that people seemed to make against him is that it is mathematically indefensible. Well, sure, I'd certainly like to have proof that something of that nature happened, but there's a difference between impossible and absurdly unlikely.

    Fact is, it's not impossible. The next time I walk up to a Craps Table I could theoretically do it. If there are a sufficient number of Craps games throughout the course of human events, it will eventually reach the point that it should happen at least once. (Granted, we're nowhere near that point yet)

    Finally, given enough time and rolls, we would eventually reach the point where it is more likely than not to have happened.

    ----I am using a general, "You," in the paragraph below----

    In my view, you can't selectively use Gambler's Fallacy as it benefits you. Saying, "Oh my God, but eighteen times in a row...impossible!" System believers believe that losing a particular number of times x in a row is impossible, it isn't, that's why believing that is a fallacy. The probability of rolling a 'Yo is 1/18, every single time, doesn't matter how many times it happened before that.

    ----I am using a general, "You," in the paragraph above----

    But...18 in a row and nobody throws out the colloquial, "See a 'Yo, bet a 'Yo," I argue that is closer to impossible than the event itself! I refuse to believe that the only players at that table were the most disciplined gamblers to ever walk the Earth.

    That's the one aspect of the story that prevents it from being copacetic, in my view!

    (Thanks for copacetic, MrV, not often I run into a word that I didn't already know! I like that one!)
     
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  15. Ozzy

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    MENDELSON is full of shit, and himself. You were just being polite, saying there's a hope in hell that it happened.
     
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    It was mostly out of being polite, but the truth is that it is not, "Impossible."
     
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    It's in the gazillions, also reading a lot of the far fetched "Look at ME" bullshit, that MENDELSON has wrote over the years, makes it even the more improbable. He definitely is attention whore.
     
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    18 yo's in a row isn't even "absurdly unlikely" or any other way you want to word it. I forgot the exact math on it, but it's something like you are more likely to hit FOUR royal flushes in a row....thousands of times, before you even see 18 yo's in a row once, assuming 1 hand of VP and 1 roll of the dice are played at the same rate.
     
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    Gamblers ironically spend all their time with such roundabout "irreducible" mysteries, when we all do know that gambling is a crock.
     
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  20. Mickey Crimm

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    The problem I have with 18 yo's and 30 losing hands at blackjack is when did they start counting. I've had losing streaks go into several hands of video blackjack or whatever, I'm well into the losing streak before I notice it's a sustained losing streak. Then I think, how many hands in a row is that now, and I can't exactly remember how many in a row it was. If you start the count with how many you think you lost to that point you can be way off.

    But as far as the 30 straight losing blackjack hands go, exoter has claimed to have lost 29 in a row.
     
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