Thursday, April 2, 2015
Thursday, March 26, 2015
Gambling With an Edge - guest H. Lee Barnes
Our guest this week is H Lee Barnes, author of Cold Deck. Lee was a casino dealer, a Griffin Agent, and now a writer who teaches creative writing at College of S. Nevada.
Thursday, March 19, 2015
Gambling With an Edge - guest Eric Strasser
Our guest this week is Eric Strasser, author of “Baseball Betting for Profit.”
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Gambling With an Edge - guest Bob Nersesian #12
The guest this week is Bob Nersesian. Bob is a frequent guest to the show, and always entertaining. Bob is the lawyer who advocates for the players against the casinos, and has successfully sued many Vegas casinos on the behalf of players. He is also the author of Beat the Players.
Thursday, March 5, 2015
Gambling With an Edge - guest Michael Craig
Our guest this week is Michael Craig, author of The Professor, The Banker, and the Suicide King. This is a fascinating book about a billionaire who came to Vegas, and played poker with the best players in the world for the highest stakes anyone has ever played for.
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Thursday, February 26, 2015
Gambling With an Edge - guest Michael Gaughan
The guest on the show this week is Michael Gaughan, owner of the South Point Casino in Las Vegas. We talk with Mr. Gaughan about his father Jackie Gaughan who owned the El Cortez casino in downtown Las Vegas, as well as pieces of many other casinos.
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Thursday, February 19, 2015
Gambling With an Edge - guest Tysen Streib
Our guest this week is Tysen Streib, one of the authors of Flop Turn River.
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Thursday, February 12, 2015
Gambling With an Edge - guest Don Schlesinger
The guest this week is Don Schlesinger, author of Blackjack Attack, and the latest member of the Blackjack Hall of Fame.
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Thursday, February 5, 2015
Gambling With an Edge - guests Rick Blaine & Max Rubin
The guests this week are Rick Blaine & Max Rubin. They are on to discuss this year's Blackjack Ball. The Ball is a party held in Las Vegas once a year hosted by Max Rubin. Some of the greatest gamblers in the world attend this party, and compete in a skills competition for the Grosjean Cup. Rick Blaine was this year's winner.
Thursday, January 29, 2015
Gambling With an Edge - guest Mike Shackleford
The guest this week is Mike Shackleford . This week we discuss the upcoming Super Bowl and the many prop bets available.
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Gambling With an Edge - guest poker legend Billy Baxter
Our guest this week is 7 time WSOP bracelet winner Billy Baxter. Billy is one of the old time players kicking around Vegas for 40 years. We talk poker, sports betting, golf, pool hustling, a little bit of everything. A fascinating guest who we will try desperately to get back.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
Gambling With an Edge - guest Anthony Curtis 6
Our guest this week is Anthony Curtis, owner of The Las Vegas Advisor and Huntington Press publishing. We discuss the new poker book Flop Turn, River, as well as the new coupon book from Las Vegas Advisor. Flop, Turn, River: A Hand-By-Hand Analysis of No-Limit Hold 'Em Tournament Poker Strategies
Thursday, January 8, 2015
Gambling With an Edge - APs Andrew and Brad
Our guests this week are advantage players Andrew and Brad.Andrew and Brad set out to scout casinos in Oklahoma. Being avid listeners to our show they had heard the horror stories of people having their money confiscated by police in Interstate 40. Sure enough they were pulled over on I-40 and the police found their $40,000. Tune in to hear their story.
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Gambling With an Edge - Surveillance Agent Jay
Agent Jay has been working in Las Vegas surveillance rooms for over 20 years. He is our guest this week to tell us what surveillance people are looking for when watching for advantage players.
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Saturday, December 13, 2014
How Casinos Cheat
Many of you may have read James Grosjean's blog posts entitled How Casinos Cheat. If not you can find his excellent blog here, Beyond Numbers. I very much agree with JG that the danger of being cheated by a casino is not them dealing you seconds, or hitting you with a cooler. They have a much bolder, and more effective way of cheating. If you lose, too bad. If you win, they just refuse to pay.
Recently I was told one of the most egregious cases I have ever heard of. The Playboy Club in London stole the money of two players for counting cards. The two players played in the casino for 3 or 4 nights, and left their money on deposit with the casino. On the last night they went to withdraw their money, and the casino told them they would not give them their deposit money back because they had been counting cards, and card counting was against the rules of their club. The money stolen was over £30,000 or approximately $50,000. They weren't accused of cheating, just counting cards. I know nothing of British law, but I can only infer that there has never been a court case testing the legality of counting. Now maybe they know they will lose the case, but want to harass people from another country who will have to fight a court battle from overseas. Or maybe they were emboldened by the awful decision in the Phil Ivey case.
I grew up reading stories of the old "road gamblers". Doyle Brunson told me, "First we had to win the money, then we had to collect the money, and then we had to get out of town with the money." Between the casinos stealing from players, and then the police and their asset forfeitures, I can't say much has changed.
Did I mention that the Playboy Club is owned by Caesars Entertainment? Stay classy Mr. Loveman.
Recently I was told one of the most egregious cases I have ever heard of. The Playboy Club in London stole the money of two players for counting cards. The two players played in the casino for 3 or 4 nights, and left their money on deposit with the casino. On the last night they went to withdraw their money, and the casino told them they would not give them their deposit money back because they had been counting cards, and card counting was against the rules of their club. The money stolen was over £30,000 or approximately $50,000. They weren't accused of cheating, just counting cards. I know nothing of British law, but I can only infer that there has never been a court case testing the legality of counting. Now maybe they know they will lose the case, but want to harass people from another country who will have to fight a court battle from overseas. Or maybe they were emboldened by the awful decision in the Phil Ivey case.
I grew up reading stories of the old "road gamblers". Doyle Brunson told me, "First we had to win the money, then we had to collect the money, and then we had to get out of town with the money." Between the casinos stealing from players, and then the police and their asset forfeitures, I can't say much has changed.
Did I mention that the Playboy Club is owned by Caesars Entertainment? Stay classy Mr. Loveman.
Friday, December 12, 2014
Gambling With an Edge - guest Jake Jacobs 2
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Thursday, December 4, 2014
Gambling With an Edge - Rick Blaine author of Blackjack Blueprint
Our guest this week is Rick Blaine, author of Blackjack Blueprint. This is a terrific book for counters, newly updated in May, 2014.
Thursday, November 20, 2014
Gambling With an Edge - guest David Switzer
The guest this week is David Switzer. David just received two masters degrees from UNLV, and we will be discussing his professional paper, “Casinos can increase table games revenue by properly training employees and adjusting many of the procedures currently used on their games that are aimed at stopping advantage players.”
Friday, November 14, 2014
Gambling With an Edge - guest Jake Jacobs
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Thursday, November 6, 2014
Gambling With an Edge - guest Phil Hellmuth
Our guest this week is poker professional Phil Hellmuth, aka "The Poker Brat."
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