Digital Social Hour - Blackjack Corruption: Cops and Casinos EXPOSED | Blackjack Advisors DSH #725

Episode Date: September 18, 2024

🎲 Dive into the dark world of "Blackjack Corruption: Cops and Casinos EXPOSED"! Join Sean Kelly on the Digital Social Hour as we unravel shocking truths about the hidden alliances between law enfor...cement and casinos. 🎰 Ever wondered if casinos and cops are in cahoots? 🤔 Tune in now to discover eye-opening revelations from our special guest, Rick from Blackjack Advisors. Packed with valuable insights on how casinos maintain a 2% edge over players, Rick shares his gripping stories of navigating the murky waters of gambling. Don't miss out on learning the secrets behind counting cards and outsmarting the house! 💡 Watch now and subscribe for more insider secrets. 📺 Hit that subscribe button and stay tuned for more eye-opening stories on the Digital Social Hour with Sean Kelly! 🚀 Join the conversation, and let us know your thoughts on casino corruption in the comments below! 👇 #BlackjackStrategyToWin #CardCountingStrategy #BlackjackRules #CardCounter #CardCountingRisks #Casino #BlackjackStrategyToWin #LiveBlackjack #HowToCountCardsInBlackjack #CountingCards CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Intro 00:27 - Rick from Blackjack Advisors 05:03 - Earning $50,000 Monthly Playing Blackjack 06:58 - Beating Online Casinos: Is It Possible? 07:59 - How Long Before Being Kicked Out of a Casino 09:18 - Getting Arrested for Gambling 11:18 - Importance of the Table in Blackjack 13:11 - Playing by the Book: Strategies Explained 14:19 - Identifying Fishy Casinos 15:26 - Experiencing Running Bad in Gambling 17:01 - Training Others in Blackjack Techniques 17:37 - Time Required to Master Blackjack 19:30 - Best Blackjack Tables to Play At 21:55 - Top Cities/Countries for Gambling 23:08 - Gambling Regulations in Other Countries 24:40 - Drinking While Gambling: Pros and Cons 25:38 - Where to Learn Blackjack Strategies 26:39 - Additional Learning Resources for Gamblers 26:40 - Promotions and Offers to Consider APPLY TO BE ON THE PODCAST: https://www.digitalsocialhour.com/application BUSINESS INQUIRIES/SPONSORS: Jenna@DigitalSocialHour.com GUEST: Blackjack Advisors  https://www.instagram.com/blackjackadvisors/ www.youtube.com/@blackjackadvisors SPONSORS: Deposyt Payment Processing: https://www.deposyt.com/seankelly LISTEN ON: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/digital-social-hour/id1676846015 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5Jn7LXarRlI8Hc0GtTn759 Sean Kelly Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/seanmikekelly/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 let him cash out said to the cop um and the cop just backed down and and they cashed me out and i i got out of there with just a trespass wow so not not a trespassing ticket just if i come back yeah i'll be trespassed um so yeah like walking out of that casino it was the first time i was like wow there can i got to witness the corruption that can happen between law enforcement and and casinos right they're probably in bed together, right? All right, guys, we're talking Blackjack today. We got Rick from Blackjack Advisors here. Thanks for coming on, man.
Starting point is 00:00:33 My pleasure. Thanks for having me. You had a good run yesterday. We were just talking about it. Yeah, yeah, it's good. So we just flew in yesterday. We got a couple of podcasts to do, and we're going to make a team trip out of it because that's what pays the bills these days. Yeah, how long have you been doing blackjack for? So, like, I started learning in high school, so that was maybe six years ago. Actively playing, it's been about four, four and a half years.
Starting point is 00:00:56 Yeah, with the interruption with COVID and whatnot, shutting down. Got it. A bunch of stuff, but yeah, I would say four and a half years. And were you successful at first, right off the bat, or did it take some time? No, definitely not so right off the bat i mean you need a lot of hours to reach the long run that's the game right because we play with a small edge um so the edge switches about two like like whatever it's average three percent for the house and we switch that back into average two percent for the player um so you need a lot of hours. So I didn't stay above zero.
Starting point is 00:01:25 I had a bad run in the beginning. And after about six months, and I was playing part-time, right? Because I'm still working. After about six months, I stayed above zero. Wow. So you have a 2% edge. 2% edge, yeah. And so the idea is if you have a 2% edge on each hand,
Starting point is 00:01:40 play as many hands as you can. Right. And you'll come out ahead. So the same ideology that the casino is using against everyone else is what we're trying to use against them. And that edge is from counting? Counting, yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:51 So perfect mathematical blackjack with the count. So you just follow the numbers. You don't even, no emotion involved. It's just pure logic. For sure, yeah. And then so you try and make it emotional, but as far as what you're actively doing, the game of blackjack is solved.
Starting point is 00:02:05 It's been solved for a while. There's a correct decision for each hand. So you're playing perfect mathematically. And then adding the count in is going to help with your betting. So it tells you when it's in your favor and when it's not. You bet accordingly.
Starting point is 00:02:18 And you said 90% of tables in Vegas are winnable. I would say, yeah. So the wide majority majority almost every casino has something um beatable for blackjack okay but then every casino is going to have something beatable in general we focus on beating the game of blackjack that's impressive so what are the odds that make it unwinnable is it a certain ratio on the payouts yeah yeah so if you want to talk about like six to5 blackjack, that's going to be terrible for the player.
Starting point is 00:02:47 Although you can still beat this table, even just with card counting. It's going to be much less worth your time. And then as far as CSM machines go, you can beat those too. It's not going to be with card counting. But yeah, so if you're just a card counter, the CSMs are a nightmare. What's not going to be with card counting. But yeah, so if you're just a card counter, the CSMs are a nightmare.
Starting point is 00:03:06 What's a CSM? It's the big machines that you see on the table that's just constantly cycling through cards. So you'll notice they play a few hands. They take the cards out of the discard tray and put it into the shuffle machine. So it's a constant. So even the gamblers,
Starting point is 00:03:21 the reason why you don't see these much, well in Vegas for sure you don't see these much, is, in Vegas, for sure, you don't see these much, is because the gamblers are just not a fan of them. They know it worsens their edge as well, right? Even if they're still maybe playing a losing game, right? They want to have the best chance to win. So they don't like them either, and that's kind of why Vegas stays away from them.
Starting point is 00:03:38 That makes sense. So those deck shufflers, like, are those a problem for you? If you see those, those automatic shufflers? Yeah, yeah. So there is a slight difference between, like, an automatic shufflers like are those a problem for you if you see those those automatic shufflers yeah yeah and so there is a slight difference between like an automatic shuffler is it might look like something where dealer takes uh maybe a six deck shoe and there's just already six deck shuffled and then they put that into the shoe so those are fine um the big machines that you see on the tables those are called csms yes those are the problem and although there's advantage players that have beaten these machines um in different ways um if you're just a strictly a card counter yeah um yeah you're not gonna be able to beat them does the number of decks matter for you yeah yeah so on on average the lower the amount of decks
Starting point is 00:04:21 uh the better the house edge for the player the better the game um is the more it's going to be worth as a card counter got it because you can keep track easier of the counting um not only that it's just you're reaching the long run faster so we need to see so if you're playing a six deck game what you're doing is you're just keeping the count and then what we call it is you're dividing by how many decks are left. And then what this does, this step just makes any amount of decks, you use the same process. So in double deck, you're only dividing by two. It's just speeding up the game. Got it. And then even single deck, I don't even know if there's any single deck in Vegas anymore.
Starting point is 00:04:57 I don't think there is. I haven't seen any. But yeah, so single deck would be the best on average. That makes sense. Now you build this operation of $50,000 a month. Is that profit or is that revenue? So that's going to be gross. Yeah, that's revenue. Wow, that's impressive. Gross. And that's as far as last year we averaged. Well, myself, I was able to average a little bit over 50K per month. And that's running a Blackjack team,
Starting point is 00:05:21 total of six members. So there's six of you guys, you spread out to each casino and then hopefully you guys make money. That's the whole theory. Yeah, exactly. So just like, just like any greatly profitable business, you start off with yourself and you learn how to do it yourself. And then the next step, if you want to keep growing is to expand. So, so that's what I did with, learned how to do it all myself. Kick off an exciting football season with BetMGM, an official sportsbook partner of the National Football League. Yard after yard, down after down, the sportsbook, Born in Vegas, gives you the chance to take action to the end zone
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Starting point is 00:06:42 I grew up my personal bankroll, and I started teaching people, teaching trustworthy people in my life perfect mathematical blackjack, and then started bankrolling those players. So you're staking them almost. Exactly, yeah. So they go through the exact same steps I went through,
Starting point is 00:06:58 and they get to start where I'm at, right? So they get to bet more, and it's going to be worth more for them. Right. So, yeah. So at the end of the night, you pool all the money and just split it evenly? Pretty much. So what we do mostly is we have four full-time players and two part-time players.
Starting point is 00:07:17 So the two part-time players, their hours and their earnings are pooled. And then for the four part-time players, some started at different times and whatnot. So a lot of the time, everyone's kind of out on their own. Maybe someone's in America, someone's in Canada, someone's going to the UK. And so they're just kind of battling it out there on their own. And then whatever the stake amount we agreed on, and I can talk about that. With my players, it's 50% goes to players, 50% goes to investors. Got it. So any of my players can add as much money, put as much skin in the game as they want to and buy back some of the investors portion of it. And then as a player, they are also earning 50% of the profits. Interesting model.
Starting point is 00:07:57 Does this work online, on online casinos? So of course there has been online casinos that have been beaten at blackjack but overall i mean casinos they're they're good right they're smart so they know what they're doing and so they counteracted it they pretty much butcher the rules on online blackjack they cut the shoe in half it's it's a terrible house edge uh when you're playing online blackjack so for the most part no oh wow it's not beatable online so they've raised their edge online yeah yeah significantly how did they do that is that even legal because i thought it had to be a certain edge no no it's it's legal so like what they'll do is just like like here in vegas like you can go to six stack game and they offer
Starting point is 00:08:37 surrender resplit ace um stand 17 whatever um they take all of that out online uh so some games aren't even letting you double after the split wow um yeah they just butcher it they make it so like uh so no matter what um what you do even if you if you have the count then you're not going to be able to beat it yeah that just never becomes advantage for the for the player what is the average amount of time you're in one casino before you get backed off so the way it works is I'll talk about here in Vegas. So we have like trip routes pretty much that we're following. And then on average, you probably like at the end of the trip,
Starting point is 00:09:15 if you can get two hours average per casino, you're going to do really well. But what the day-to-day actually looks like is that it might be 15 minutes, 15 minutes. Like maybe you're playing sister properties and you played the first one and you got a good amount of day. Maybe you played that casino all day, but then now it's going to be really tough to play their sister properties. So on average, yeah, it's going to equal out to like two hours. But I mean, I've camped casinos for a month before. Oh, wow. And they couldn't find you? Yeah. Yeah. They just slower casinos one
Starting point is 00:09:45 in particular was a brand new opening um so it was just everyone was yeah they didn't have the cameras yeah they didn't really know what's up um but yeah eventually they figured it out yeah and really it's not that we're trying to fool them it's that we're trying to play we're playing aggressively and obviously for a short period amount of time and going to the next one interesting there's 2100 casinos in america and yeah you just keep it moving so you try to leave before it gets to that point uh no we for the most part we are playing until they tell us they don't want us oh really more yeah wow and has any of those led to something like an arrest or anything so there there's people I know in the space that have some crazier stories
Starting point is 00:10:28 as far as arrests go and whatnot. But the law is on our side. So the wide majority of time, it's a very polite, polite back office with these casinos. Now, yeah, we have had some extreme situations. So I can remember early day in my career, I was in Washington State. I was playing at this casino.
Starting point is 00:10:51 It was all going normal. I was using my spread, won some money, got backed off. So I'm walking up to the cage and it's all cool. And then as they're cashing me out, the cashier sets aside a thousand dollars just off to the side and then starts paying out, paying out the amount minus the thousand bucks. And so I asked like, of course, what's, what's with the thousand dollars you set off to the side? Um, and they go, Oh, you were overpaid. So we're not, we're not paying you that part. And so of course I was like, uh, well, surely you guys got to show me some proof of this or or
Starting point is 00:11:25 whatever right so i was fighting it i was pushing it um eventually the general manager just called called the police wow and then the police showed up so they don't just bring one police officer it was it was five police officers for this for this occasion so i would have left yeah and so they they walk up and i remember the first thing the cop said to me was, if you don't get the fuck out of here, I'm going to arrest you. Damn. And so at that point, yeah, I just, I went, I shut up. I asked general manager because he's getting ready to like grab me, this cop. I asked him, is it good? I'll, I'll cash out. You guys will never see me again. And so before that we were chatting, we were having a good conversation
Starting point is 00:12:02 with that manager. And so I think this is what saved me. But the manager said, yeah, let him cash out. He said to the cop and the cop just backed down and they cashed me out. And I got out of there with just a trespass. Wow. So not a trespassing ticket. Just if I come back, I'll be trespassed. So yeah, like walking out of that casino, it was the first time I was like, wow, there can,
Starting point is 00:12:23 I got to witness the corruption that can happen between law enforcement and, and casinos. Right. They're probably in bed together, right? Like you hope not always, right? But,
Starting point is 00:12:33 uh, yeah, there's definitely some, like these casinos are so powerful that, uh, I mean, they can dictate laws in some. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:40 Money talks. Cause in some cities that casinos are probably the number one revenue driver. For sure. Yeah. Vegas is probably one of them. Yeah. Yeah. So luckily I Because in some cities, casinos are probably the number one revenue driver. For sure. Yeah, Vegas is probably one of them. Yeah. Yeah, so luckily, I'm like, I know a lot of people have seen the movie 21, right?
Starting point is 00:12:50 The card counting movie. Yeah, they kind of painted the picture like you might be taking the risk of getting your legs broken in the background. But no, we've never even not been cashed out from the casino because like I said, the law's on our side. And yeah, so for the most part, they pay you out and they just don't want you back yeah times have changed the mobs aren't running the casinos anymore yeah yeah it's good for you
Starting point is 00:13:13 now do the people at the table matter because some people get pissed if you don't play by the book and they think it's your fault does that actually matter to you so yeah so talking from the math perspective they do not matter um the only thing that would affect it is i want to be playing heads up because it's a faster game i'm getting more rounds it's worth more for me but as far as playing at a table um no it is half the time that bad decision is going to help you and half the time it's going to hurt you and it all is going to even out in the long run right yeah and that's the the law that we're abusing is numbers are predictable over a long period of time. So yeah, although the dealer maybe takes,
Starting point is 00:13:50 or sorry, the anchor at the table makes a bad move and the dealer gets 21. Yeah, in that hand, it affected it. But over the long run, no, it does not. Thank God you busted that myth, man. People make you feel bad, you know, if you make the wrong move. Because I don't know the book.
Starting point is 00:14:04 I just play. Yeah, I might get some heat for that one from all the gamblers because yeah but uh no it does it does not affect it i've played just around 2 000 hours of blackjack so what do you think about the book everyone tells you to play that if you're a beginner is that the move yeah yeah so basic strategy right you're talking about the book. Yeah. Yeah. So I've heard lots of myths that, oh, the casinos created the book. They want you to play that way. It wasn't the casinos who created the book. It was the computers that created the book. People ran simulations and said, tell me the best way to play basic strategy. And that's the book. And so now if you're keeping the count, you can deviate from the book in certain situations. And that's all through math. But no, as far as learning the book is the fundamental part to learning how to count cards. Got it. So if you play the book without counting, the casino still has a 3% edge. Yeah, on average. So Blackjack's pretty good. It's average 3% house edge because people don't play the book. But if they were playing the book and you have the great rules here in Vegas, the casino only has a 0.5% advantage over you on average, depending on
Starting point is 00:15:12 the rules, it's going to change a little bit. But yeah. Yeah. So it's almost a coin flip, right? It's just slightly in their favor if you're playing the book. Got it. Yeah. Any spots you played out where you thought it was a little fishy? You thought the casino was doing something weird? Yeah, there's been times where I thought about calling it quits, going through bad variants, and you're not sure. Maybe the casino has that reputation of the past. Maybe they've had some court cases that went down. Yeah, there's a casino that I've avoided.
Starting point is 00:15:45 In Vegas or? In Florida. Oh, in Florida. In Florida that I avoided because there's just too much controversy over this casino. Yeah. But for the most part, these casinos don't want to be breaking the laws to make their money. They just don't want to take that extra risk. I mean, they pretty much have a license to print money, right?
Starting point is 00:16:10 So why take that extra risk of committing fraud to make make the money they're going to make it anyways um so so yeah if if there's casinos that are cheating out there i would have to think that it's extremely rare yeah i feel that um yeah i know there's some other people in the ap space that think differently ap advantage player advantage player space that uh that might think differently about certain situations, but no. Well, sometimes you're just going to run bad, right? I'm sure you lose some days, some nights. Yeah, for sure. So last year, we had 11 good months and one terrible one, right? So we play blackjack, right?
Starting point is 00:16:39 Hundreds and hundreds of hours and come down after a month. So yeah, you need a lot of hours to reach this long run. But yeah, it's easy to think, right? That when you're going through a terrible space, it feels like you're playing so much blackjack, right? And you have the edge. And so to come down from it, it's hard to process in the mind.
Starting point is 00:16:57 You go through those battles. So I can see where they're coming from, right? When they think the casino is cheating. But no, from my experience, I've never even witnessed it. Wow, yeah. You got to control that tilt when you're losing too, right? Yeah, yeah. It's a stressful endeavor.
Starting point is 00:17:13 It's not going to be easy money. It can be good money when done right. Yeah. But yeah, it's a stressful job. Stressful, but I think there's perks too. You get to travel the world, which is awesome. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you get to get to yeah like a lot of the benefits i mean yeah it's a it's a free reason to travel the world right you can go to these places and and make money from them it's that's
Starting point is 00:17:34 awesome i mean more perks from it like especially with the starting your blackjack team or being a part of a blackjack team you get that camaraderie right so it's like the money is great right but you guys have to trust each other to a core right and so when you do get this team i mean like you have a team here and everyone seems great yeah you would know what i'm talking about when you do get that team it's like yeah you guys get to share the money but just having that team and like those lifelong friends is is even better absolutely absolutely yeah and now you're training other people how to do this right yeah yeah that's that's right. So I started alone. I grew up my bankroll. I learned all the nuances of beating casinos. Because yeah, once you do learn the perfect mathematical blackjack with the count, it's kind of like you're armed with a hammer at the job site, but you've never been to the job site yet. You really don't know what to do. So I learned it for myself. And then a couple of years after that, maybe two
Starting point is 00:18:26 years after that, I started teaching people the same process I did and sent them out on the same routes I did. And I was just able to guide these players through the exact same experiences that I went through. And how long would it take to really master this in your opinion? Yeah. So it's a good question. So it's all memory, right? So none of the math goes above like third grade level. So it's just going to be dependent on a person's memory. Uh, for me, it took a little bit longer. I do not have a good memory. Uh, but I mean, for some of my most recent teammates, like the quickest one got it done in three months. Wow. Yeah. And so he was, he was practicing, uh, uh, quite a bit, probably, probably like three hours a day, right? And he was able to learn it in three months.
Starting point is 00:19:06 And then for myself, it took about nine months to learn it. So when you say memory, you're just trying to memorize all the different scenarios. Yeah, yeah. So it's like, there's like four steps, four steps of beating card counting or beating blackjack. First step is the book, like you talked about, basic strategy. So you got to have that down pat.
Starting point is 00:19:30 Second one is introducing the count. And so first of all, first step is just memory, right? Second part is the count. So just adding and subtracting, right? Yeah. Third is going to be the dividing the running count by the true count. So like deck estimation, just making any number of decks, you're just relating it to a one deck game right and then the fourth step is going to be deviations so when you deviate from the book and again that's just more memory so it's strictly what it's just strictly memory as far as beating blackjack goes interesting so you got to memorize four different things at the same time yeah yeah so just mixing it all in together is is the part takes a bit. Yeah. Doing it in real time in a casino environment. But yeah, that's the easy part of the job.
Starting point is 00:20:11 As you start, for the viewers, if you're learning this process, if you're interested in it, you'll notice that it's very manageable, like actually beating the game of blackjack. Yeah. The hard part comes later, but as far as gaining the edge over the casino, getting that hammer in your tool belt, yeah, it's manageable for the average person for sure. And which table do you prefer?
Starting point is 00:20:33 Because there's different minimums, right? Yeah. So for the most part, I'm just looking for a table that is going to be heads up. So just me and the dealer, right? It's going to be moving the fastest. So that's oftentimes high limit rooms. In the beginning days of my career, I couldn't afford maybe $100, $200 minimum. So I'd play out on the floor where it's just more busy, right? Because that's what
Starting point is 00:20:54 I could afford. But yeah, for the most part, high limit is also going to have the best rules. So these days, yeah, we're hanging out in the high limit rooms of casinos. Yeah. And do you leave if a bunch of people sit at your table? If there's an empty table next door, I will. Yeah. Empty table, you know, right beside. Yeah. It's just way faster.
Starting point is 00:21:12 That makes sense. Unless I've built up a relationship at the table, like with, you know, maybe like the casino whale and we're just having a ton of fun together. I mean, now the casino doesn't want to kick me out, right? Because they'll look bad in front of the whale. So I feel like I could last longer just having this relationship with their favorite player. That's smart.
Starting point is 00:21:30 You use the guy as like your friend, right? Yeah, for sure. So yeah, like I talked about, like earning your hammer, right? And showing up to the job site, you know none of this stuff, right? But then actively doing it day to day, you learn all this stuff.
Starting point is 00:21:41 Because the hard part is getting time in the casinos. Like they're not dumb, right? They've seen it all before. And you have to get creative to get time in these casinos. Right. They know exactly what to look for, right? The dealers probably know if you're counting. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:55 I mean, well, sometimes. A lot of the times I think it may feel like that. But I think we're probably giving them too much credit at times. They're just there for their hourly. But the more experienced ones, yeah, they're going to be able to spot a spread, and they'll at least know, okay, well, maybe, maybe this is an advantage player, and they can let someone know.
Starting point is 00:22:12 Right. But, yeah. Are you taking advantage of the comps too? Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Oh, yeah. Those are nice in Vegas. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:21 Yeah, because we're doing great. Our numbers are growing. Yeah, we still keep expenses low and whatnot especially for the members on the team that aren't uh making as much they're still in the early stages right yeah so yeah you want to keep expenses low and yeah in vegas yeah you get good comps so like we're here for a week and a different casino is paying for our our hotel that's a way to do it man because if you had to pay for those be 300 a night so yeah yeah exactly some of them are like crazy right yeah 300 a night, it would be $300 a night. Yeah, exactly. Some of them are crazy, right?
Starting point is 00:22:45 Yeah, $300 a night times six people, that's $1,800 a night. Plus meals, they comp those sometimes. Yeah, the comps here, especially in Vegas, are good. Really good, man. Do you have a favorite city or country to gamble in? Yeah, that's a good question. So going country by country, there's so many differences um as far as favorite cities in america i'll talk about yeah so favorite i like uh i like san diego a lot okay
Starting point is 00:23:14 san diego sweet denver denver miami i had a ton of fun in miami um and then i love vegas as well nice but yeah yeah it's what i love is experiencing the good and the bad, right? So like half the fun of the job is like you're coming through like this crazy little town. And it's just like, wow, this is different, right? So that's fun too. Yeah. But then, yeah, as far as like some of my favorite places to play, yeah, I love Florida. California is great.
Starting point is 00:23:39 Nevada, I would say are top three. Have you ever gambled on a cruise? No, but a member of my team actually has. For the most part, for what we're looking for, they're not amazing. But yeah, I had a teammate do it. And the problem is, is if you get backed off, you might be stuck on this thing for another six hours, right?
Starting point is 00:23:58 That's what I mean. That's why I asked that. But yeah, he just did it for the fun of it. And yeah, it was actually decent. Wow. Yeah, I'm going on one in August, but I don't want to get kicked off the ship, man. That's funny.
Starting point is 00:24:08 Have you gambled in other countries at all? Asia or anything? Not Asia. So we will be doing UK for the first time this year. And then we are also, so we're from Canada. Yeah. So we started in Canada. You can gamble at 18.
Starting point is 00:24:22 Oh, wow. So I was gambling. I started at like 19. Nice. The gambling experience there is completely different um how so so like here in vegas right it's like you like pull out your phone at a table and it's just like everyone's like whoa right like no phones at the table it's like very um there's a ton of laws right it's all like due to prevent cheating or prevent any corruption like that. Right. As far as back home,
Starting point is 00:24:47 it is just like a lawless gambling atmosphere. So you could be like sitting at the table and sure. A lot of them are going to have the same rules, but for the most part, it's like you could be on your phone doing whatever. It's just, yeah, it's so different that there's just like no rules.
Starting point is 00:25:03 It's more lax. In comparison to here. Interesting. Yeah. I didn't know that. Those Canadians are more more laid back huh well at least where i am yeah so i'm in i'm in alberta and uh yeah it's kind of like the the texas of america they call it yeah so so yeah they're chill there yeah you could drink at 18 there too yeah i remember going to montreal when i was 18 right yeah montreal sweet yeah when you're that age that's the spot to be for sure. Montreal, Toronto.
Starting point is 00:25:27 Do you drink? People are beautiful there. Oh yeah? Yeah. Yeah. I don't remember much. Beautiful people. How old were you when you went there?
Starting point is 00:25:32 I was 18. Yeah. Cause you have to be 21 here. Right. So we drove there from Jersey. Yeah. Yeah. That was a fun trip.
Starting point is 00:25:39 Montreal was a good time. Do you drink on the job? For the most part, no, especially if I'm going to be driving like stop to stop. But, uh, so some things I've picked up, so I'm walking up to a table, right? And like, if I walk past just like an empty beer bottle there, I might just grab it and have it in my hand so that I'm walking up to the table with the drink. And then when the server comes up, I'll pass her that drink, order another one one and then just be specific when you're taking the drink so just like anytime like the the dealers may or the pit boss right if you have
Starting point is 00:26:11 some heat like you're just drinking right yeah just to add that hopefully it helps right you just look interesting just look drunk so you're playing a mental game yeah yeah if i'm gonna be drinking it's because i want to last longer not because i want to get drunk wow yeah you're playing chess out here when you're when you're, like this is my work, right? So when we're at the casino, we're focused on gaining hours and making money from them. Right. Yeah. We're definitely not there to, I mean, if you can have fun in the process, like, and we do often, yeah, that's great. But yeah, this is how we like pay the bills. I love that. Where can people learn from your course and teaching? Yeah. Good question. So I learned from Blackjack Apprenticeship.
Starting point is 00:26:46 They've been around for a while. So Blackjack Apprenticeship is the ultimate way to learn how to beat the game at, how to beat casinos at Blackjack. So luckily, more recently, we've partnered with them. So you'll find that through our Instagram bio. It's on there. If you sign up through us, yeah, it helps us.
Starting point is 00:27:02 And then we'll give you free consultation one-on-one. um and then as far as what we do we've launched a school and so what we focus on is like the live streams and like i said this is more recently yeah um but my team member andrea andrea runs this she runs our social media so yeah so she launched this school and we focus on like live training so you can come train with, and it's just going to speed up that process for you. Yeah, you can get your questions answered in real time, right? And there's a lot of misinformation out there. Yeah. So it's a good question, yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:34 I recommend Blackjack Apprenticeship and our school. Cool. It's all linked into one, and you'll be able to learn it. We'll link that below. Any other links or things you want to promote? No, no, that's pretty much it. Awesome. Yeah, like the software that is on there is mandatory if you are taking this serious like you're gonna need to be able to run your numbers and uh you'll be able to see like
Starting point is 00:27:53 based on your bankroll size um what's possible with this bankroll how much risk maroon am i gonna have um and yeah it's just it's just mandatory for any serious advantage player perfect we'll link it below. That was a fun episode. Thanks for coming on, man. Hey, thank you, man. Yeah, thanks for watching, guys. As always, if you're interested in Blackjack, click the links below. Otherwise, see you tomorrow.

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