Why do proles at the blackjack table get so angry when you don't play right?
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Date: March 8th, 2021 10:14 AM Author: vermilion point
Where is the error in my thinking? Articulate it for me specifically, in a nonconclusory fashion which explains how I've got it wrong (I haven't).
You may argue that it's practically impossible to count cards like that, but I actually agree w you. That's why I said what I said.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42067185)
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Date: March 8th, 2021 10:12 AM Author: vermilion point
See above.
But no one is counting cards like that so as a practical thing it doesn't matter.
But yes, technically, if a person were counting cards, it might make a difference to the person that you didn't follow usual protocol because your action changes the likelihood of drawing another card in a way different from had you simply stood.
But as I said, in reality no one is doing that.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42067175) |
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Date: March 8th, 2021 10:56 AM Author: vermilion point
it hasnt been explained at all.
TBF, I think we are talking at cross purposes about the same thing ultimately. I'm surprised no one has realized that.
I am saying it doesn't make a difference.
The only way it would make a difference at all in any aspect of the game would be if the other player was running a complicated assessment of the relative probabilities of drawing each card. He would have to amend his calculations if you hit and took a card out of the realm of probability. that amending of probabilities could either be more or less favorable to him than it was previously. This adjustment of probabilities may or may not affect his decision to hit or stand.
BUT, as a practical matter, no one is that smart and it's silly for proles to get mad because no one is actually running that assessment in their head. And if they are, they shouldn't be!
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42067405) |
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Date: March 8th, 2021 10:17 AM Author: vermilion point
Great! Looking for an explanation as to how I'm wrong.
Understand all I'm saying is that you deviating from the usual course of play modifies the probability that the player next to you will or won't get a more or less desirable card.
And if they were actually counting--which they aren't--this modification on the respective probabilities of drawing certain cards would cause them to reappraise their next move in light of your deviation and draw.
It's basic probability, folks.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42067198) |
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Date: March 8th, 2021 10:23 AM Author: vermilion point
Oh dear.
We seem to be missing each other.
Regardless of what card comes up on the prole's fuck up, the probability that the next player will or will not draw a certain card has been modified ASSUMING THE PLAYER IS COUNTING CARDS.
But no one is.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42067224) |
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Date: March 8th, 2021 11:22 AM Author: effete principal's office
Spaceporn when people count cards the objective is to identify when the deck is “hot” ie has more face cards so they (or a partner) can up the bet. Counting doesn’t grant some clairvoyant or probabilistic knowledge about the *sequence* of cards that are yet to come. A hot deck is still hot regardless of whether every player in front of you plays optimally or fucks around.
Yes, a player in front of you playing non-optimally *alters* the next card you were going to get, but the card is still random. The other player hitting/standing like a dumb prole is just as likely to help you, hurt you, or have no effect on your ultimate result.
Random is random. A skilled card counter knows when the deck composition is leaning in their favor and thus bets more, but the sequence of cards laid out from the moment they determine the deck is “hot” is still a random sequence. Other players moving the button by 1-2 cards will flip would be wins to losses and vice versa, but no more (or less) so than when they do the same on a cold deck or one that’s just been reshuffled and still has ALL of the cards in the shoe.
You are wrong
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42067551) |
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Date: March 8th, 2021 11:31 AM Author: vermilion point
I'm not really saying anything contrary to this assessment though. That's what's so funny.
All I'm saying is, to use your term, if a naive player makes a wrong play that shifts the flavor of the deck from favorable to nonfavorable for the next guy, and the next guy is aware of that, that's why he would get mad at the player next to him. And he might make decisions on how to play a currently unfavorable deck and those decisions would be different than how he would have played before. And be irritated he has to change his appraisal to one less favorable to him now that the composition of the cards remaining has been changed.
Honestly, I'm not wrong. Either I'm not explaining it well enough or someone here is being aspie or there are a couple people who don't understand probability or who constitutionally can't think beyond the cliche or what.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42067626)
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Date: March 8th, 2021 11:33 AM Author: orange insane roommate
If we are talking about annoying other players - if the other player is a card counter:
1) when player before plays incorrectly, the card counter may have to reassess his decision based on the additional cards pulled - could be annoying.
2) while the decision to play badly does or not does not have any impact on whether it will help or hurt the card counter, after the player plays badly, additional cards will have been removed from the stack which can either make it more likely or less likely that the counters previous determination (that the deck is hot or not) is still likely to be the case, and that can be annoying?
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42067654) |
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Date: March 8th, 2021 11:45 AM Author: spruce hell
The point is this:
If Player A (prole) plays irrationally, it can change the makeup of the deck such that Player B (card counter) will have to alter his strategy. But the prole's irrational play is equally likely to swing the deck from cold to hot as hot to cold (or from hot to hotter or from cold to colder).
Whether Player A plays optimally or not has no bearing on Player B's expected return, because it all comes out in the wash.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42067764) |
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Date: March 8th, 2021 11:48 AM Author: vermilion point
No, see you've backed up a little bit because you didnt want to concede you got it wrong in the beginning. But that's okay--it happens.
But your second paragraph "Whether Player A plays optimally or not has no bearing on Player B's expected return, because it all comes out in the wash." makes no sense in light of the first paragraph, because you are still trying to hang on to your original position. First paragraph directly contradicts second. Can you see how?
We are only talking about instances where other players get mad because you made an irrational play. They would get mad not when favorability increases, right? They would get mad when it decreases for them based on your bad play.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42067800) |
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Date: March 8th, 2021 11:58 AM Author: vermilion point
Their position has changed though, from saying it makes no difference whatsoever to the cards the counter thereafter draws, to saying now that I've explained it a dozen times that it does make a difference but it would be irrational to be angry with the bad player because well, that's the part of the assessment of favorabiltiy or unfavorabiltiy.
They are at least now conceding that the decisions of a bad actor change the favorabilty/unfavorability rating for the player who is counting cards thereafter. It took forever to get to this point at least.
Whether the counter is mad at the poor player for playing irrationally and tilting the balance unfavorable (in such a situation) or is simply mad that the balance has now tilted unfavorable isnt really material to the original discussion and frankly is a lot less interesting.
At leats now we can all agree that YES, the player who plays irrationally Changes The Assessment for a Card Counter. Which was my original point.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42067901) |
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Date: March 8th, 2021 12:20 PM Author: vermilion point
Here's what i poasted above:
Well, you can say the player shouldnt get mad because 1) it makes no difference to the probability assessments for a card counter, or 2) it's irrational for the counter to get mad because it's just a game jeez.
Up until this moment, the general consensus was that 1 applied. I dont care whether 2 applies or not. my concern was that no one seemed to understand that number 1 above isnt really mathematically correct.
As for card counting--no "what i originally said was that if someone gets mad because i make an irrational play I say to them so what you arent counting cards anyway" thats what prompted the initial bevy of innumerate responses which I've been responding to.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42068078) |
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Date: March 8th, 2021 12:25 PM Author: vermilion point
I guess. but that's a far cry from where we were at the beginning of this discussion. I think a few folks have egg on their face and are changing the game some. Which is fine--it happens.
FWIW i think the car pulling in front of one comparison is apt. Why did this dumbass irrationally pull in front of me--now i have to tap my brakes.
That guy shouldnt get mad either. It's just the nature of driving that some people will pull in like fools. Right?
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42068122)
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Date: March 8th, 2021 2:58 PM Author: Ruby 180 keepsake machete
LOL how did I miss this gem before. No spaceporn, you complete retard, the brake tapping analogy is NOT apt and it completely illustrates what you don't understand.
If a retard pulls in traffic he SHOULD know it's going to fuck your shit up and it definitely will fuck your shit up.
For it to be analogous, the retard's decision to pull into traffic would NOT affect the probability you'll have to slam on the brakes at all at the time he makes the decision. the probability of you "losing" (or having to slam on the brakes) is not affected by the retard's decision. it is fully out of the retard's hands. you would have been as likely to need to slam on the brakes if he's just stayed in his lane. i repeat, the act of him staying in his lane would have fucked you with equal probability as pulling into yours. is this making sense to you now?
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42069185) |
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Date: March 8th, 2021 11:38 AM Author: effete principal's office
Wut?
A counter has to continue tracking low and high cards no matter what. That’s just called maintaining the “count.”
Whether the players in front draw more cards or fewer cards than they should, the counter must keep the count for EVERY card drawn. Thus, there is obviously no impact on strategy but also no “annoyance” — every card that some other player’s play makes them track was a card they were going to have to track anyway. That is the bedrock essence of what maintaining a count is.
People are so bad at probability holy fucking crap
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42067713) |
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Date: March 8th, 2021 12:13 PM Author: vermilion point
You previously said the following:
"It does not put you in a less favorable position overall. People have explained this to you like 20 ways ITT. You are objectively, mathematically wrong."
You now say it could be less favorable or it could be more favorable. (But if its more favorable the counter isnt going to get mad)
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42068009)
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Date: March 8th, 2021 12:23 PM Author: vermilion point
Hmm. I think you just got pwned.
Happens to the best of us.
I think you initially conflated the idea that 10 heads in a row has no effect on the likelihood of flipping a head the 11th time around w the current situation. So you went w the cliche, misapplied it, and you and a few others argued it pretty hard.
But I'm not going to spend more time talking to an innumerate guy who just called me stupid a half dozen times.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42068101) |
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Date: March 8th, 2021 2:28 PM Author: floppy native legend
LOLOLOLOL.
JFC.
Post hoc, ergo propter hoc.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42068985) |
Date: March 8th, 2021 9:20 AM Author: beady-eyed state
Most people (even otherwise intelligent people) have a very poor misunderstanding of probabilities and statistics.
And by "most" I mean like 99.5% of the population.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42066985) |
Date: March 8th, 2021 9:20 AM Author: Scarlet galvanic field depressive
In one of my first times in a casino, I was playing blackjack and the dealer had one of those hands where everyone was supposed to hold no matter what (I think it was like 15 or something), but I didn't know the rules and hit on 12. Everyone started flipping out, which intensified when I got a face card 😂 and REALLY intensified when the dealer then got a 6 instead of my face card and made 21 (😂 x 1000). One of the guys got so mad that I started goading him into trying to fight me (I said something like "oh no, did you just lose your bus fare home, faggot?"), so he kicked his chair over and started screaming, which led to him being forcibly ejected from the shithole Atlantic City casino we were in. My crowning achievement came slightly after, when the humorless asian started dealing again and the boomers were still bitching at me. I said "sorry guys, I'm new at this, cut a 19 year old some slack", then did a 180 and walked away when they carded me (I actually was only 19). That bus fare line is gold, by the way, I used it on another slob wop whose money I took at a poker table with similar results.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42066987) |
Date: March 8th, 2021 9:49 AM Author: passionate hot codepig
lol i have a group of prole friends who played blackjack every weekend for a few months as a passing fad a while back. they would always get really mad whenever someone played incorrectly because it "meant" that they were "getting the wrong cards"
i tried like 5 or 6 times to explain to them that the cards that come up are independent of the actions of any other players. they could never understand. towards the end i got through to one of the guys and i'm pretty sure he did understand it. but then he would say "i don't care if it doesn't affect the cards anyway, it just throws me off my game"
these guys all have white collar jobs making 100k+ btw
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42067107) |
Date: March 8th, 2021 9:57 AM Author: Ivory Brethren
OP is right. Bad players do not affect you at all.
Here is a long form explanation from a professional card counter:
https://youtu.be/hJy1AJETKvE
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42067135) |
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Date: March 8th, 2021 3:20 PM Author: vermilion point
You can say what you want but an irrational hit when the person behind you should have stood either tips the balance of the cards for you or against you. It's just basic math--I'm not making that up. The literal pool of available options has been reduced by one. That's just math.
And if you are counting, you will see that, and you will likely be unhappy w the player who played irrationally if your own probability of success is reduced thereby--and yes that means BEFORE you play your hand.
It's as simple as that. I can't make it any simpler. The pool of available cards has dropped, when if the niave player had played in a predictable fashion, the same set would have come to the counter for play. You can tell me it doesn't matter that much or it's silly to get mad at the naive player for doing that thing and that's fine, but it doesn't address the OP I made, which is:
Next time it happens just say "I know you aren't counting cards, man, what difference does it make."
You can call me names or whatever but it's just basic math. You can tell me the counter should just chill out and not be mad, sure, but was that my OP?
As for being "pedantic," I don't think Earl knows what the word means, frankly. Nor do I think the poasters swarming around Earl on this actually understand basic probability, or they didn't when I first explained it to them a handful of times. Some of them apparently don't understand this even now.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42069326)
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Date: March 8th, 2021 5:17 PM Author: orange insane roommate
it's not about what happens before you play YOUR hand, its about how you perceive the naive players decision to hit before he plays HIS hand.
Before he plays his hand, his decision to play or not play does not make it more or less likely for you to win.
If you are unhappy with his decision after he plays it and the card he pulls makes your situation shittier, that is an irrational unhappiness with the decision. It is simply unhappiness with the result of a game of chance, same as if you were hoping for a face card and got stuck with a 4, irrespective oh what anyone does before you.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42069998) |
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Date: March 8th, 2021 5:49 PM Author: Ruby 180 keepsake machete
"The point is that playing irrationally and hitting when you should stand does negatively impact other players if the card you draw negatively changes the favorable/not favorable on balance content of the remaining cards to be drawn"
In exactly the same way that playing rationally and standing when you should stand DOES negatively impact other players if the card you draw negatively changes the favorable/not favorable on balance content of the remaining cards to be drawn. Should you be mad at the person for playing rationally here because the effect ended up badly? Do you see how this crushes your entire "point" you moron?
You are an incredible retard. This cannot be overemphasized.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42070152) |
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Date: March 8th, 2021 5:53 PM Author: vermilion point
Lol you will be laughed at as a guy who literally cannot understand that taking one card out of a pile of cards affects the likelihood of other cards coming up in the next draw. You and your cohorts literally cannot understand this and have been puzzling over it all day like a chimp w a football.
And then, when you think you get my point, you try to argue that there's no difference if the guy hits or stands "because the data changes each time." I then remind you that no, ifhe hits he's taking a card out of the pile that could be drawn from so that changes things--for good or bad. If he Stands, then that DOES'NT change the pile. The subthread then dies.
So now you come back arguing w me that the counter has no right to be angry! It's just a game! This one sputters out, despite Earl's attempts to help you.
So then you go to the idea that, well, you shouldnt get mad when the niave guy wrongly plays because it's not until the card is drawn that you know whether it's a good play or a bad play for the counter! Uh, yeah! Who is saying otherwise. But when the card comes up and it changes the probabilities for the counter NEGATIVELY, then counter is going to be pissed the dude broke decorum and didnt play rationally and stand. That's why people get mad! They don't get mad until they see the negative consequence to them by changing the probabilities against them. That's how life works, son!
WHO is being pedantic, btw? The guy who just taught you about basic probability or the guy who wants to argue w me that it's not reasonable for the counter to get angry until he confirms that the previous play hurt him. It would be the latter, and also a lot of goalpoast pushing by the latter too. Good day, sir.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42070178) |
Date: March 8th, 2021 10:48 AM Author: doobsian immigrant menage
the opposite thing happened to me once. i was playing blackjack and some boomer made a really, really dumb move. i kindly told him that, and he got yosemite sam fuming mad. i assume he makes shit moves like that a lot and others have gotten mad at him for "screwing up their hand", so he preemptively gets very defensive when people comment on his play.
now i just play my own hand. some people are very on edge when they gamble. takes all the fun out of it.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42067345) |
Date: March 8th, 2021 11:36 AM Author: Curious Gaped Step-uncle's House
of course they're going to be pissed when some jackass strips the face cards as they're sitting on 11 waiting to double
it goes both ways for counters. more cards being played before reshuffle = better edge. dudes robbing face cards when they don't need them = bad for everyone. ur not fucking them as much as ur just wasting their time or causing foregone profits
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42067686)
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Date: March 8th, 2021 12:00 PM Author: Curious Gaped Step-uncle's House
ya of course it has no impact on strategy. and of course the average boomer getting pissed isn't actually cc
im just pointing out that if someone is cc > wagers big into a heavy deck > 9's against 6 > all the proles to his right hit on 12 and bust > cc is going to be pissed bc he would have split and doubled
cc is a grind and edge is in moments like this. u can out-autist the cc and say his anger is irrational but who's the asshole when you lose $20 and he stood to potentially have edge on a $1k hand
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42067914) |
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Date: March 8th, 2021 12:47 PM Author: doobsian immigrant menage
didn't someone actually buy tickets once and sp backed out?
we all know who is in irl. how could anyone be intimidated by him? he's so paunchy and jew-ey. why would he think anyone would be intimidated by an out of shape 50 y/o shitlawyer? the fact that he even resorts to physical challenges just reinforces what a dumb prole he is.
like, don't most people grow out of the "fight me irl!" in their teens?
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42068367) |
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Date: March 8th, 2021 12:21 PM Author: Pink death wish
this is how it would seem to me.
it kind of also takes the fun out of it doesn't it?
what's the point of playing the hands if discretion is taken away from the players?
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42068086) |
Date: March 8th, 2021 12:28 PM Author: orange insane roommate
I think what SP is missing (and what I was missing for about 15 seconds) is that it is irrational for a card counter to be annoyed by the results of what a bad player does, even if it alters his expected probability - because that is the same as a non card counter getting mad that the bad players "stole" his face card or whatever.
If the act does not help or hurt the probability of your success before the fact, if you are annoyed by the act after the fact, you are annoyed at your bad luck, not at what the player did.
Beyond this, SP is now being pedantic to avoid acknowledging that his initial thinking was wrong.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42068153) |
Date: March 8th, 2021 1:02 PM Author: autistic rigpig
wow, a lot of smug faggots itt. yes, from a pure probability perspective, other people’s play has no affect on the PROBABILITY of you winning. but if you stand on 20, have a guy in last position who hits on a 16 against a dealer 6 and takes a face card, and the dealer ends up hitting into a 21 when the dealer would’ve otherwise busted, that guy IN FACT made you lose when you would have otherwise won. that’s reason enough to be pissed at his stupidity. why the fuck would you only care about the probability and not the actual results? if that’s you, just walk into the casino, give them 1% of the money you planned to put into play, and walk out.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42068481) |
Date: March 8th, 2021 1:12 PM Author: aromatic maroon associate stage
It’s all about phenotype.
If a high jock Chad wants to split queens then ain’t no one gonna say shit. If some Melvin comes to a chill table and starts making all sorts of autistic moves and the table starts losing, Melvin is rightfully going to take some shit.
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#42068538) |
Date: November 20th, 2023 12:35 AM Author: passionate hot codepig
holy shit i totally forgot about this thread
this was absolutely incredible. christopher spinelli is an internet treasure
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#47076629) |
Date: March 13th, 2024 11:56 AM Author: appetizing rough-skinned nursing home
lol what a fucking retard
i want to lock spinelli in a shipping container and the only way out is for him to solve a stats problem
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4782366&forum_id=2#47489877) |
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