Gambling With an Edge - Surveillance Pro, Griff part 2

This week we have a return visit from "Griff," a surveillance director who works somewhere east of Las Vegas. Griff answers questions from our listeners.  We welcome your questions - send them to us at gamblingwithanedge@gmail.com.

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Show Notes

[00:00] Introduction of Grif, Surveillance Pro
[00:39] Does the mode of transportation affect the casino's opinion of a player?
[01:25] How often to casinos review all available footage of a player?
[04:12] Do casinos track who APs talk to into the casino?
[06:35] How do casinos detect hole carding?
[07:29] How often do casinos read players texts?
[10:12] Has Grif ever seen distractions used as part of a scam?
[14:04] How does surveillance deal with calls about betting table thresholds?
[15:42] What happens when a player receives a sizable marker?
[17:09] Does surveillance get a call for every W2G?
[18:00] Do casinos notify their competitors about known APs or cheaters?
[19:21] Does Grif contribute to OSN? How widely dispersed are OSN flyers?
[20:43] How long is digital surveillance information saved?
[22:42] Has Grif participated in choke point design?
[24:29] Does surveillance have direct access to kiosk or ATM cameras?
[26:04] South Point Casino Promotions - VP classes start 1/8
[27:01] VideoPoker.com - Game of the Week: Face Card Frenzy
[28:19] What is the difference between a back-off and a trespass?
[31:14] Is there software that can identify various types of advantage play?
[31:42] Does Grif's casino sweat people who track numbers at roulette?
[33:45] How many casinos use RFID chips to track betting patterns?
[35:53] How does the work day begin and end in the surveillance department?
[37:20] How does surveillance head count vary by shift and time of day?
[39:33] Will casinos buy AP literature to educate employees?
[42:11] Is Grif an AP is his spare time?
[43:13] How much analysis is done in real time versus after the fact?
[44:40] Does Grif check other players at the table during a hole-card game?
[46:51] Are their cameras that cannot be seen by the customers?
[48:20] Does a surveillance officer wear a wire when investigating employee theft?
[49:38] Who makes the decision to call the police?
[50:48] Are surveillance and security usually in the same department?
[54:16] Is math aptitude part of the job in surveillance?

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Gambling With an Edge - RX Gamble

Our guest today is RXgamble, a woman born and raised in Vegas who went from casino dealer to top advantage player.

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Gambling With an Edge - listener emails 2

We have no guest this week.  Bob and Richard answer questions from our listeners. We always welcome your questions so post them below, or send them to us at gamblingwithanedge@gmail.com.

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Show Notes

[00:32] Should you go on a kamikaze mission and retiring from AP once and for all?

[06:17] Should you get mailers in local address P.O. box v.s. out of state P.O. box? 

The Mr. Yuk Interview #1

The Mr. Yuk Interview #2

[07:45] The proper length of VP session

[10:43] VP heat in Europe and hollywooding jackpots as a cover move.

[12:52] Richard’s game selection criteria

[15:24] How to make other VP players to go away

[19:00] How to deal with a casino employee knowing your full name before you have given up your identity.

[22:03] Do you think there are still decent sidebets?

[23:15] Milking hole carding games/ how to approach hole carding games

[24:57] How do you use Beyond Counting?

[28:18] How is the casino rating you based on the different machines you play?

[29:30] Richard and Porno films in Korea

[30:53] Over and Under side bet. Is this worth pursuing?

[31:50] Who is the better ping pong player? Bob or Richard?

[32:36] Poker player wondering validity of card counting and how to validate his skill level as a card counter

[34:30] Does having Wizard of Odds strategy charts get you barred?

[37:05] The mathematical background of Bob and Richard

[40:00] Worst thing that a friend or a partner has done to Bob and Richard?

[43:00] Would Richard rather be an AP right now or in 1960’s?

[44:10] What’s the nicest comps you have received?

[47:46] What’s keeping you profiting from the next Don Johnson?

The Don Johnson Interview #1

The Don Johnson Interview #2

[52:20] What’s the nastiest backoffs you’ve had?

[56:42] Richard, how many other people have you taught some form of AP to?

[58:53] When playing high-denomination games, when you’re basically getting W2G’s every 2-5 minutes, how does all that paperwork get processed at the end of the session?

[59:45] Richard’s AP idols when he started

[1:02:54] strategy changes to Ultimate X for less than full-pay machines

[1:07:39] Richard’s general criteria for adding an AP for his team

Gambling With an Edge - guests Mr. Yuk, and Charles Hondi

Our guests this week are Mr. Yuk, and Charles Hondi.  Yuk, and Charles are advantage players that play both tables games, and machines.  In this episode we focus on the table games side of their play, and in a few weeks they will be back to talk about their machine play.

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Gambling With an Edge - guest tax man Russell Fox

Our guest this week is Russell Fox.  Russell is a certified tax professional who handles many professional gamblers. We talk about end of the year strategies for saving on your taxes, and analyze the winners of the final table of the WSOP to see how they did after taxes.

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