Getting the Edge , may require going out on the limb !!

Reply #9

eddessaknight — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:19:14 GMT

Bob Stupak on the last winning roll of craps at the closing of the Sands Casino on June 30, 1996

Appreciation to Coin Toss for his step by step instructions - looks like you can teach an old dog new tricks after all !

Bellissimo

Buon Fortuna!

Ciao'

EddessaKnight

Reply #8

Coin Toss — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:05:32 GMT

eddessakngiht

Sometimes if you copy an article and post it the picture goes in auomatically. That's how the pic of Stupak went in.

But usually, when you see a pic you want to use, right clock on it, a box appears, then click on Properties. That will show a web adddress for the pic. Copy that to your clipsboard by highlighting it and pressing the ctrl and C keys together. (That's the keyboard shortcut for Copy).

Then when you are posting, in the first row of icons immediately below the m... [ More ]

Reply #7

eddessaknight — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:30:43 GMT

Thankx Coin Toss, you are a gentleman, and a scholar hope you have good taste for whiskey women

Another good contribution on our late Polish Prince of gambling

Apprceiate the official bio report but more importenly your personal imput and valuable experiences at gambling ground zero. It's certainly nice to communicate with people who share Thanks for the Memories in Viva Las Vegas, but even more important, with those who's commetaries make sense.

Now as promised, Bob Stupak in Hawaiian... [ More ]

Reply #6

Coin Toss — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:00:58 GMT

Eddessaknight,

From the Las Vegas Review-Journal:

BOB STUPAK 1942-2009: Las Vegas icon Bob Stupak defied the odds

Colorful gaming entrepreneur's exploits made headlines over and over again

By LYNNETTE CURTIS

LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

BobStupak gives a campaign speech at the Stardust Hotel in 2006 when heran for lieutenant governor. Stupak, who died Friday at Desert SpringsHospital, made several unsuccessful runs for public office.

Las Vegas Review-Journal file pho... [ More ]

Reply #5

Coin Toss — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:18:55 GMT

eddessaknight,

The Polish Maverick was a maverick indeed. He ran for office in Vegas, and published his own newspaper.

I met him a couple of times but never worked for him.

Working in the dice pits as I did, we always had a paranoia about people who had never played craps learning to play Crapless Craps at Vagrant World and then coming to regular casinos to play craps.

Vagrant World was Las Vegan for Vegas World, which if I remember right might have burned down before the Stratospher... [ More ]

Reply #4

eddessaknight — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:57:29 GMT

Hey Coin Toss, for old timers like us, we will miss the colorful character of a Bob Stupak - there are not not many of these gambling mavricks around anymore but he left his mark w/the 1,100 ft Stratosphere Tower.

In your gaming career did you ever deal on property for the Strato, w/Stupak or Ichon???

Remember Stupak's Polish Roulette promotions with no zeros? The man had more angles then a book on geometry!

For all his eccentecities, as a fun Vegas icon, Bob that will be missed........ [ More ]

Reply #3

Coin Toss — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:42:02 GMT

Got a letter from Las Vegas today, Stupak died last Friday at Desert Springs Hospital . He was 67.

R.I.P

Reply #2

eddessaknight — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:32:39 GMT

Thanks John, good point about a devation of cold numbers potential overweight ball (ball defective as stated in original post )

NOTA BENE: Usually when a game doesn't go according to negative expectaions, especially when winning player regularly overcomes the odds, the management starts an investigation begings to see what went wrong with the game.

And Bye the Bye, on a few occassions, I found that the ostensible 20 ball draw was actually 19 total but after the mishap was brought to superv... [ More ]

Reply #1

johnph77 — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:50:50 GMT

Ray -

Also look for the same type of deviation in numbers that don't appear - a ball can be off in a ball draw because it may be overweight.

Sorry to hear about Bob - I met him and his father many years ago when I was in HS in the Pittsburgh area.

gl,

J

Getting the Edge , may require going out on the limb !!

eddessaknight — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 23:01:31 GMT

John, et al-

We wanted to know how to get the edge. Here's one possible out of the box approach that may require going out on the limb

Go to the keno supervisor and request a frequency distribution report for each number that has come up over the last several thousand trials, since the balls were changed last. When you get the report, run standard deviation testing on the number of times that each ball has hit. If one of the balls has hit more than four standard deviations then there's a h... [ More ]