Calling out Bart Hanson

[BartHanson]

Bart:

I don't understand all of the hate being thrown at you here. Whether or not you have a pit gambling problem, that doesn't affect whether or not people should take your advice regarding poker play. Those are two totally different things.

I am confused about one thing, though.

You are claiming to have earned Seven Stars via blackjack play (or at least partially having done so), and thus are claiming that your expected losses are small compared to Seven Stars benefits.

I have to disagree with this. You get rated VERY POORLY at pit games, and it's very hard to accumulate many tier credits by playing in the pits. Even worse, because you don't accumulate enough tier credits in a day, you also lose out on the all-important bonus tier credits (5000 bonus per 2500 base tiers earned).

I have to imagine that one would have staggering expected losses if they played enough blackjack to earn Seven Stars.

Simply put, if you don't earn Seven Stars via 99%+ video poker, it's not really worth it.

Todd,

This isn't really the point of this thread..but we can certainly discuss them. I would love to come on and tell you what happened with the promotion and how Caesars treated me like dirt.

But if you play 9/6 JOB at 99.54 with getting 1 tier credit per $25 played are you saying that you will lose less per point than playing at say -.35% at usually full blackjack tables? To get 5000 pts at 9/6 you would need to pump through $125k for an expected loss of about $620. If you play blackjack at 80 hands and hour at $500 a hand you are losing at about a $140 an hour clip. Do you know what the points are as they equate to average blackjack bet size per hour?

Again I don't gamble for profit at BJ or VP its mostly to wind down, for recreation and to get some comps. I don't buy expensive clothes, don't have a $20k watch, or have strip club and sports gambling leaks, and I own my car. Whats the big deal if it cost me $1000 to get 5k points rather than $620 if I get enjoyment out of it? With less variance I might add as most of the return in JOB is the Royal.

I'm pretty sure these guys are just hardcore trolls. I may have once said coming off of some ridiculous $10k tournament bad beat in Omaha 8 that I "felt like getting drunk and playing blackjack"..not sure how that has spiraled into this now, or how it effects my poker play or CLP.