Archive for August, 2008
Ace + 10 = Blackjack = Money
Posted by J.S. Lewis in Uncategorized on August 28th, 2008
About two to three weeks ago, I took an interest in blackjack and card counting. When I say this, most people have one of two responses: 1) You watched 21 didn’t you? 2) Ha! No one really makes any money from card counting. Both of which I take a slight offense to. The answers to both of these remarks is: yes/no. I did watch the new movie 21, but it wasn’t until about a month afterwords that I began to trying it out. Once I had been practicing card counting and basic strategy for about two weeks, I watched the film again, but this time from a completely different angle. As to “No one really makes any money playing blackjack” I say this: There are countless people out there who pay there monthly rent with money they earned from card counting, and several bar tenders (and people with jobs like bar tending) in Vegas make their main source of income from card counting. The great thing is, card counting is mathematically proven to work - IF and only IF you follow the rules to the T. The reason so many people don’t think it works is because so many armatures go to the closest casino and blow all there money away because they aren’t prepared. Playing at home and playing in a real casino are two different things. One is a controlled environment, while the other is out in the wild, where everything feels like it’s on steroids and your not. Another reason people believe that you have to be a genius to count cards. The truth is, if you start to actually study card counting, you’ll find that there really isn’t anything about it that requires extraordinary intelligence. I hope to make some money doing this, but I don’t plan on being the next millionaire. The saying goes, “It takes money to make money” and this is most definitely true with blackjack. Ideally you would enter a small casino with 3k. But, I myself don’t have anything near that, and thus making $1000-$6000 in one night, is rather ridicules. With $250, I’m certain I could make $100 in a few hours, at least, in all of my test runs, this has proven to work. I have coined a phrase - with great practice comes great monetary gain and with great sluggishness comes great financial loss. In other words, unless you devote about an hour out of every day for a month to card counting, your just going to loose your money.
Yours,
Jack
Back to Preordained
Posted by J.S. Lewis in Writing, preordained on August 13th, 2008
Recently I have felt like going back to my book, and start the editing process. I’ve barely looked at it for almost ten months now, so I think it’s about time I complete the story. The ending was rather drab, because I was writing it for my English class, I had to quickly wrap up the whole book in two pages. When i started to really take a look at what I wrote, I had two emotions, “Wow, I wrote this?” and, “I hate this part.” I feel to hate parts of my book, is extremely ironic. For starters I plan on rewriting the first chapter, then getting one copy self published at Lulu.com, and continue my editing in the book, this way I would actually have a hardcopy of my book.
Past-Present-Future
Posted by J.S. Lewis in Life on August 6th, 2008
Hours turn into days, and days to months until we finally reach we finally reach an accumulated wealth of time, equal to that of a year. Within that year, there lies a day that is usually very special to those who share this “special day.” What I would be referring to is my birthday as today is that “special day.” The oddity that has overcome me on this day of days, is the strange feeling that another birthday is nothing than another birthday. I think this rather peculiar feeling has often been reserved for those in ages excess of thirty one, yet there cannot be much comfort is this.
Anyway, I find it nice being eighteen, but I am looking forward to twenty-one with a great deal more glee.
Yours,
Jack