Does anyone think Microgaming's BJ is fair??

[spearmaster]

I still don't see what you're trying to prove... the only thing I can gather from all this is that you have some sort of vendetta. It has zilch to do with your claim that the blackjack is rigged.

[dave_r]

I have played in land based casinos all my life, and never experienced flux that I encountered when playing against the invinceable Microgaming dealer. I knew long ago something was very wrong with this software, but I couldn't prove it. Now I have literally dozens and dozens of audit trails encompassing tens of thousands of hands of my actual real money play, and I have a statistical basis for my conclusions. I told Ken Smith I would allow him to be amongst first people to get my Excel spreadsheets, and I meant it. As soon as MGS agrees that my records are valid, I will release them publicly. I have no problem with this. However, until then, you just have to take a leap of faith, and believe that what I am saying is true.

Also, in the meantime, I am compiling video taped evidence.

I will soon go on the message boards to release an overview of my results, including total wins/losses, total # of bj's for myself and the dealer, # of doubles won and lost and other relavent info (the correct method of computing SD). I expect to be releasing this info publicly sometime around the 10th of November, at which time MGS will have had all the opportunity in the world to have looked up my audit trails. If they are not done by then, I will assume there is no hope they will ever complete this task, and therefore the public deserves to know anyway.

[spearmaster]

Just out of curiosity - have you played as many offline BJ hands as you have online? And if you are so convinced that MGS blackjack is rigged, why in the WORLD would you keep playing and compiling data at your expense?

I have no idea who Ken Smith is. However, I do indeed look forward to your results and analysis, no matter which way they point.

[millymolly]

I seem to not be able to post messages but here goes again. I would like to say that I have exactly the same problem with dealers getting 21 with 5 or 6 cards when I either already heve 20 or 21, this happenes regularly also the doubling on 11 and getting an Ace which happens virtually everytme, yet I am supposed to be playing with a reputable casino, but i hate to tell you how much i have lost and yet i am quite a good player. I can win lots of times on small bets and as soon as I increase them can lose 20 times.

[dave_r]

Spearmaster said:
And if you are so convinced that MGS blackjack is rigged, why in the WORLD would you keep playing and compiling data at your expense? [ENDQUOTE]

I have stopped playing bj at these sites, since I believe I have enough evidence as of right now.

The reason I was able to compile data (for the past 3 years) is due to the generous bonus offerings that were out there; less and less of them still apply to bj, but there are still some that do, and I and others took full advantage of these opportunities, since with 100% bonus, and less than 10x playthrough, the game is still very beatable, despite it being rigged.

As far as COOLHAND magazine goes, it seems that Microgaming has made arrangements with Greyhound Bus to distribute this magazine for FREE, on a monthly basis, to many of the bus terminals, accross the USA, that offer CASINO based service. I got my copy at the Port Authority.

This is a damn shame, and I'd like to put a stop to it.

I am in the process of contacting the upper management at Greyhound Bus, to explain that they should not be distributing this publication, since online gambling is deemed illegal by most authorities in the United States, and they should not be distributing an entire magazine that fosters it, and is owned by the one of the world's largest casino software developers.
I have lots of proof that COOLHAND and CasinoContent.com is owned by Microgaming.

Besides, I noticed there were many kids in the bus terminal, picking up copies of this magazine; some of which I have no doubt will logon to these casinos pretending they are under 21.

[spearmaster]

ROFLMAO...

I don't see why they can't distribute Coolhand with Greyhound... LOL... now we know you have a vendetta against Microgaming. That is the craziest thing I've heard in a long time...

What proof do you need of what, Dave? I just spelled everything out for you above - and yet you are obviously too lazy to look at the inside the magazine to find out the same thing.

Finally, there's nothing wrong with the content in the magazine, it's not Playboy. By your definition any magazine which carries tobacco or alcohol advertising is automatically off-limits to people under 21.

If you don't mind my saying so, why not direct all of this negative energy towards something more useful?