Clocked at 152.23 mph in Vegas

[troyworks]

That's how fast I was going in an F1 around the track, at the Mario Andretti racing school. Ended up tying for 2nd fastest in the family. Awesome B-day gift from dad! You have to watch the speed of the normal car going home..our instructor was doing 90 in a 15 person van around the track, one handed while talking over his shoulder

Comments

[contrariandoer]

Dad was up $1500 on blackjack, partly MIT technique, partly luck.

I don't think there is any technique to make money in blackjack.
Machine shuffler makes it impossible.

[troyworks]

single deck, like .04% advantage, all money is made primarily made on doubling and splitting.

[contrariandoer]

There is no single deck game any more. Casinos got rid of them
many years ago.

[troyworks]

They are back now, but not ubiqitous like 6 deck:

$25 minimum, at the Flamingo (where my dad was playing and we were staying)
$10 minimum at the Barbary Coast
hand shuffled/no shoe, reshuffle when they reach about 1/3 of the deck so 2 hands with 3 people, or 3 hands with 2 people, to minimize counting.

[triath]

Check out this webpage and scroll to the bottom to see this guy's idea of Greyman.

[boffo]

Galactica gets much better in the actual series. Watch the first episode and judge the quality by that, rather than the mini-series.

[snarkyshark2]

Woo, happy birthday! Sounds like you had a great time ;)

[radiantsun]

Wow that sounds like a FUN and EXCITING weekend!! Woo!!!

I'm excited to hang out with you next weekend too.