哈! 你被我骗进来了!!!

I just watched "21", a US movie, and I have the following comments.

1. The money they won was too little. 6 people made 17 trips to Vegas, but they won less than US$2 million. The house would not pay so much attention to that kind of money [If they do, they would give u more and more serious warnings until u quit. If u don’t get the message, they might go physical, step by step, not beating u up as their first notice]

2. The house would not chase players inside casinos or their reputation tarnished.

3. The counting was too primitive [Level 2]. Level 3 also considers how many decks of cards left in the shoe and Level 4 modifies the strategy table, which should be a dynamic one as count goes up and down [I forgot about Level 5]

4. The hand signals should be more subtle.

5. Ben should have put his cash in bank’s safe.

6. The house reshuffles the cards whenever they have a high-roller cut in.

7. Count could seldom reach 15 as in the movie.

8. They should make some mistakes to have the house confused.

Final comments:

A. The party is over. Too late to learn from the movie.

B. The movie would not tell u much or u would lose less money.

Quoted from the movie:

"For the first time in my life, the world made itself easy."

"Money, girls, high-roller suites, clubs, legs… Yeah, I’d foget anything else!"

Laozhong 2008-05-24