Now, my side of the story:
At beatthecasino.com we put one of the private members in charge of house cleaning. That's a double edge sword particularly in the public forum.
The private forum grows in leaps and bounds. For instance I am currently 1800 unread Emails behind which are mostly post notices. Our forum is already too lengthy. If we didn't house clean, the private forum would be ten times longer than it is and particularly new guys would be lost for a week. But we never delete anything entirely, we just put it in storage.
For instance when Baccarat kid/ Giselle Knowles/ Gk / a few I can't remember, wanted a peek into the private forum I allowed it knowing full well that everything was in such disarray at the time that he wouldn't be able to find anything of importance given only 24 hours. Still, he ruined it for anyone else to ever be given that priviledge again. You might have noticed that he didn't report much about it. That was because he got a view so collidescopic he couldn't report anything. But that, in itself, is embarrasing to the point that we have since conducted a thorough restructuring and reorganizing of the private forum. We've also added a sort of road map for the new guys that recommends a structured study path to get them through the basics and up to current relevancy quickly.
On the public forum we seldom delete anything. But you get those guys trying to sell sex toys or whatever that have no relevancy to Bac or
BJ.
We have also banned three people out of thousands of posters who seem to have their own agenda. It seems like more because two of the 3 were banned under several different aliases. We ban them when the complaints by paid members (and public members as well) reach a certain unignorable crescendo. Private members complain because their classes get interrupted. Public members complain because they can't get their questions in. But like I say its a double edged sword. But so far, the only complaints about banning have come from only those who got banned.
It isn't about whether people agree with me or disagree because public posters have no idea of what I teach. So they can neither agree nor disagree.
The bottom line is that I have a winning record in both
BJ and Bac that spans 25 years that started long before the internet was even an idea. I have proved this hundreds of times in open public in casino exhibitions putting my money where my mouth is. The only complaint I ever got was: "Mr. Davis we wish you would play red like we have to. We can't afford to play black" whereupon my response was always the same: "I can't afford to play red!"
See, every play exhibition followed a public seminar. They cost anywhere from $20,000 in Kansas City type towns to $40,000 in Boston type towns. Even more in Canada where I had to have a multi lingual set up. Then there was the extra flight cost to places like The Bahamas, Cabo, The Canary Islands. By the time I pay up to $15000 for a newspaper ad, fly in staff and equipment, we are talking big bucks. The $20 per couple entry fee was only a drop in the bucket.
$10,000 in a half hour at Taj 1
W/O betting over $200 (Advantage betting only, no progs.) No card counter in the world could match that. Then, because Jerry and Nancy Patterson missed Taj 1: $10,000 at Taj 2, 2 weeks later at the very same table in a half hour
W/O betting over $200 with Jerry and Nancy along with their whole staff watching every play right over my shoulder. Nobody else has ever had the confidence in their wares to conduct public exhibitions either before or after me. When Olson tried it he lost. When Patterson tried it he lost. And, I've given Baccarat equal time.
Then, after spending 25 years of my life writing TRUE books and Newsletters, spending millions on seminars and performing hundreds of public exhibitions
W/O losing, fully documented in my Newsletters and by current members, perhaps even some of yours, some Johnny come lately comes along and denies the whole thing ever happened. Geez, its like those idiots that deny the Holocaust. It's public record witnessed by literally thousands of people, many like myself, still around. Twice I was barred right in the middle of the exhibition and countless other times.
But I'm just an old man now with fond memories. My site is just an old man's hobby devoted to those who would like to take advantage of my experience. Those who don't, that's fine with me. But its there for those who do, not for hecklers. I don't have the time to waste. I enjoy playing with my students now and then like again this month. (for green) They never lose when they play with me. It brings a certain alertness out in them.
You can deny all this ever happened. Don't bother me none. You're just making a fool of yourself, not me. I think the Psychiatrists call it Denial. But I'd rather finish out my days in peace if you don't mind.
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