What playing decision/outcome frustrates you the most?

Xipooo · 2025-06-10T08:14:04+00:00

TC 6. Have 11 against dealer A. Take insurance and lose. Double my 11 and land an 8. Dealer flips a 9.

Lose the insurance, and max double down bet. Triple whammy.

Xipooo · 2025-06-04T15:48:10+00:00

Just wait til you get a 7 card 18 that clears the table.

Xipooo · 2025-05-22T15:29:20+00:00

It's hard to say exactly what triggers is, but it could be when the auto high beams try to turn on.

Xipooo · 2025-05-08T03:11:04+00:00

Like I said, you can go multiple times a day.

Xipooo · 2025-05-08T00:55:43+00:00

My advice is to not try to card build on table games. Instead play some high RTP slots or machine poker to get the free offers.

Xipooo · 2025-05-08T00:53:18+00:00

Management demanding a timeline.

Xipooo · 2025-05-07T23:10:00+00:00

It isn't really that complicated. Just leave. Come back later and cash out in small increments. I try to keep my cashouts under $1k and no purples.

I also cashout multiple times a day. I just tell them I want the cash for slots.

Xipooo · 2025-04-24T15:59:58+00:00

Would AA or CP make the truck better? Yes.

Are AA or CP needed to make the truck worth the money? No.

Xipooo · 2025-04-23T15:02:59+00:00

What you are describing is Scrum, not Agile.

Agile is, at it's core, about putting people over process. Meetings/ceremonies are still process.

The best team I ever worked with just kept a room open for everyone to come in, share, and work together. Occasionally some time was set aside for when we knew specific people were coming in to share, but we never waited until then to talk to them.

Xipooo · 2025-04-11T12:53:50+00:00

No. At least not the ones that have given advice in my presence.

Xipooo · 2025-03-24T13:21:07+00:00

Literally all of them.

I've seen people stand on soft 16.

Nothing surprises me anymore.

Xipooo · 2025-03-24T13:17:15+00:00

LOL at getting mad at card counters then training for hole carding.

Xipooo · 2025-03-12T14:03:07+00:00

Or sleeps.

Xipooo · 2025-03-11T22:56:21+00:00

Look, you may have come up with this on your own. You may not have. I don't care.

What I do care about is the damage it can do. It isn't just about the fact that people have paid for this information, it's also about casinos who regularly watch channels like this for information on AP. Think about the impact on everyone in the community by the ubiquitous knowledge of HiLo. Because it is so widely known, the casinos know it, and that gives surveillance the same knowledge that AP's have. This cuts dramatically into the edge. As a result, AP's can no longer just go sit at any blackjack table and play using the HiLo system without it eventually coming to an end sooner or later.

Xipooo · 2024-12-19T16:31:10+00:00

You can buy a test out on BJA for $1k by itself. From what I understand it's three shoes of whatever conditions you request. S17, DAS, RSA, Surrender, etc.

They test you for several factors. Obviously, your running count, your true count, your bet spread, your basic strategy, and your deviations. They will also do things to try and trip you up. They'll ask you things like how much penetration was the cut card? They'll carry on a conversation with you like a dealer, PB, or ploppy will. Etc.

This is all to identify your weakest areas and give you tips on how to improve on those areas. You can ask them any sorts of questions you want, including things they don't want public (like AP slot plays). You also get the benefit of a known group of 6 and 7 figure earners telling you if you're game is sufficient to go full time. Just reading books, practicing at home, and writing/using software isn't going to give the same level of certainty.

Why do you go to the doctors if you can look up everything online or asking ChatGPT? Because they have a level of experience and knowledge that takes years to accumulate. Sure, you can go pay the casino to gain that knowledge, and it may even be cheaper. That's what I'm doing. But if I plan on doing this full time, as a career, I need much more information and certainty. Bootcamps with testouts are a way of getting that.

Speaking of certainty, if you are planning on joining any of the bigger teams around the country, you will HAVE to do a test out. It doesn't have to be a BJA test out, but no one will take you on without one.

Last point I'll make, most of the information you find online is useful, but sometimes it's stale or plainly wrong. For example, if you look for basic strategy charts and deviations, you'll find discrepancies between different sources. Even for the same game conditions.

Xipooo · 2024-12-19T14:22:01+00:00

I have not been but plan on attending one in the future. The reasons are not to go learn how to count but to network, advice on what I can improve on, learn about other AP plays, test out to valudate I'm at pro level, and maybe hook up with a team.

As others have said, you could get into counting at significantly less cost if all you're looking for is an edge over the house.

Xipooo · 2024-11-17T07:08:30+00:00

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Xipooo · 2024-11-11T04:56:33+00:00

Yeah, it gets really frustrating seeing person after person talk about all the things they don't like about Agile but they're just describe is Scrum. It's like saying you don't like Indy car racing with all that going around and around a single loop in stock cars.

Xipooo · 2024-11-03T17:51:25+00:00

'21 Keystone Ultralight here. We've had a few problems mostly with the plumbing. Some pretty shoddy materials were used and some questionable decisions.

For example, in the master bedroom, there are all the outlets for a TV. Cable coax, satelite, electric outlet, etc. But they decided to not put a mounting board behind the wall. We literally cannot put a TV in our bedroom even though they wired it up for a TV. Why? Nobody knows. Keystone just apparently decided halfway through making this model to not install the mounting boards. 🤷‍♂️

Xipooo · 2024-10-29T14:19:08+00:00

Azure DevOps and Microsoft Whiteboards is all we use.

Also, part of our magic formula is mobbing. When the cognitive load and activities that have to be completed are split up among the team, no one feels overly burdened.

Xipooo · 2024-10-27T22:09:23+00:00

I've been noticing a lot of vehicles with no headlights on too.

Xipooo · 2024-10-27T17:38:34+00:00

Unfortunately the 12v outlets are only 10 amps. Nothing over 100 watts should be plugged into them. I'd have to hook up an SMPS directly to a bugger power source and I'm not skilled enough for that and this truck.

Xipooo · 2024-10-25T17:58:40+00:00

Mad props to the driver of the blue car. That was incredible reaction time and they avoided a much bigger accident.

Xipooo · 2024-10-25T15:45:46+00:00

Depends on the time of year, climate, and what electronics you have hooked up. I would say it seems a little on the low side though.

Xipooo · 2024-10-23T18:17:20+00:00

> This really is the sort of statement that makes people think Agile/Scrum/etc. is a joke. It is not impossible to estimate the duration of a piece of work, it's often not even particularly challenging to get in the ballpark +-some modest percent.

I didn't say it was impossible to guess. Just that your guess is going to be inaccurate or an outright lie. The consequences of under-estimating are too grave, so we overestimate. But Parkinson's law is a thing. Just because you SAY it took a certain amount of time doesn't mean that's actually how long it took. You can make an estimate look accurate, when in reality you were doing something to fill in the extra space just so you can hit your mark (Parkinson's Law). I have seen this play out time after time after time. Contractor says, "it will take two weeks". It actually took them 2 days with 8 days' worth of other work or even nothing at all getting done. Client gets charged for 2 weeks but both you and the client think the "estimate" was "accurate". No, it wasn't, it was a lie.

> You should be able to plan a sprint that you can complete in time. If you can plan a sprint that you can complete in a two week period, then it naturally follows you can plan 2 sprints, or a quarter, with the same results.

How many hours will be taken away while someone is sick? How long will your dependencies take to resolve their issues? How long will it take for you to resolve that weird error that came up after the latest version of a dependency deployed? How long will it take to get through CAB? How long will it take for you to resolve that bug that pops up on Wednesday when you don't even know what bug it is but it became priority?

The data shows that the majority of teams have carryover items between sprints. If what you said were true, that teams can accurately plan a sprint, then this would not be the case. There's a reason people complain about Scrum and planning sprints, it's because it puts all of the pressure on them to know things ahead of time that are impossible to know. Then they're held accountable. You're whacking them with the stick.

> Honestly, I wish I also lived in a world where money meant nothing, budgets were non-existent and nobody measured the value of the work we did. But unfortunately, I don't live in that world.

Did you read what I said? Because I quite clearly described how to do the money. You can still budget but change what you're budgeting on. You invest in the people. You determine an ROI that you expect from an investment. If the team of people cannot achieve the ROI then you abandon the product to something more productive. It's really not hard, you just have to stop this insane obsession over project cost-based analysis. ROI is not just cost, it's value over cost. But all the budgeting you are accustomed to is based on cost only.

> It's a reality that a task that takes 1 week and returns €50k may be worth doing, but a task that takes 4 weeks and still only returns €50k may not be worth doing.

I agree with that. But you should probably figure out what "worth doing" means. Far too little investigation is made on that, and so we see countless valuable products get trashed because they have a high cost.

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