I'm catching up working my way through this thread guys so apologies if I've posted what other people have already adequately explained.
DiamondGeezer summed up my point on the matter perfectly, but in a more diplomatic style. Look, until reading this thread I had no reason to believe that KK was actually this bad at mathematics (absolutely nothing wrong with that - I suck at Physics in ways no human being should suck at Physics). Because of this, and also due to my cynical nature (which, frankly, puts me on the front foot more often than not), I was certain that KK was intentionally promoting a flawed strategy to increase his affiliate revenue - and I think I was trying hard not to directly accuse him of that, but I was definitely hinting at it.
I was wrong to assume that. Unless KK is being incredibly smart and cheeky and brilliantly faking misunderstanding, it's quite clear he had no malicious intent with his flawed strategy. However, my pointing out of his strategy has being flawed should not have been met with the vicious and nonsensical vitriol that it was (I'm looking directly at you lauriejim). And not only do I have a right to point out basic flaws in "strategies" being advertised by affiliates, I believe I (and we all) have a responsibility to do so - to assist those who spent their youth having fun instead of being a workaholic geek like myself, etc.
So I was wrong to automatically assume KK was maliciously trying to cheat his players with a flawed strategy. I apologise for that. However, I copped a lot of very unintelligent and uncalled for and unprovoked insults and attacks for posts where I was fairly calm and cordial. But let's move on...
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Isn't Enzo close to the ideal example of what a casino rep on this site should aspire to? I mean, he's active all over the place - he's highly intelligent - not once wrong (not that I have seen yet anyway) - and despite having a vested interest in *not* educating players due to his involvement with 3Dice, he goes out of his way to educate them, *potentially* at his own expense.
If there was a Casino Rep Award of some kind - stop the vote-counts. We have a clear winner. In an ideal world, I would love to see every Casino Rep behave in this manner.
~~~end dream sequence~~~
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Laurie's Logic to gambling
(A)Put your money in
(B)Pick your game
(C) Cross your fingers
(D) Hope like hell you hit a decent run from the start.
If (D) should fail, repeat steps (A) (B) and (C) over and over again
till you get it thru your head that there is no real formula to gambling , except cashing out while your ahead of the casino and thats if you get real lucky
..................laurie
No lauriejim. That's ridiculous. There is a formula to everything. Where there are unknown variables or probabilities, even these can be assigned ranges and worked into the formula. You'll just have confidence intervals.
Life is a whole string of formulas and maths and probabilities and odds. Maths are in all aspects of everything you do in life. There are inherent risks in almost everything you do (even mundane things like crossing the road or going down to the shops). There are inherent rewards also. You weigh up the risks vs the rewards (if you so wish) to make the best decisions in a world of uncertainty based on the information you have available to you.
Your post is fine until you get to the last paragraph. No one in the world with an IQ of 110 says something so ridiculous. Let alone an IQ of 134 as you claim you possess. Either you were trolling viciously earlier in this thread or you were leveling me or you are living in fantasy.
The fact that this was the reaction to your post makes me want to set up a casino
STAT! An ethical casino, of course!
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Really good to see an initially unpleasant and accusatory thread turned into a truly informative and deeply interesting discussion - thanks to the mature and courteous approach of all concerned.
I think you're being unfair here jetset. You and others were part of the reason the thread became unpleasant and accusatory. You, in particular, came out swinging attacks and accusations at me when I had not done anything to provoke those attacks from you. I remained remarkably civil for a very long time.
I'm not going to let you off the hook that easy - or let that cheap shot just slide by. You can read this thread from my initial post and it's very obvious who the instigators of the "unpleasantness" were.
I too am in favor of reinstating OP as a member of this forum based on the
content of his posts. Maybe from now on, OP will try to get his point across without being so offensive. He should learn from Enzo who has the ability to tell you to your face that you're totally full of shit without offending you
Seriously, i've met very few math geniuses with the ability to convey complex theories with humility and patience.
Thank you bryand. I only believe I started biting back around page 4 or 5 when it was becoming increasingly clear that no one was interested in actually discussing the issue at hand. And the issue is not 'complex' in any way. Even Enzo said it's literally like grade school (paraphrasing) mathematics.
I'm not a maths teacher. The fact that I had to explain mathematics that teenagers master with a yawn was frustrating, yes - I don't have Enzo's patience or ability to be polite in the face of seemingly insurmountable ignorance. And, to be fair, I was clearly prepared to take more of an instructional approach to the issue until the unprovoked attacks came one after another from the same old crew who, if I owned a casino, I would be
extremely cordial and pleasant and friendly towards.
how forgetful, they were banned
