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#61
06-04-2007, 06:44 PM
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Re: Richard Brodie 86d from the WSOP
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[ QUOTE ] Any2, Richard "Quiet Lion" Brodie is the guy who created Microsoft Word. (He's also the guy whose idea it was to red underline errors in Word) So I doubt he needs to do a collusion scam on video poker. [/ QUOTE ] I noted this in another thread on this topic. He was part of a team that created Word -- since he made a name for himself in poker (has he actually won anything?) that bit about being part of a team has been omitted. I read his blog and without seeing the actual letter or getting more info from Harrah's -- I think we are missing a significant chunk of the story. [/ QUOTE ] I've read that bit about Word and heard it quoted endlessly too. I worked at Microsoft for a while, though not nearly as long as Brodie. From what I can tell Brodie wrote or helped write Word 1.0 which was a horrible hunk of crap that went nowhere until many other people spent years tweaking it. He was also Bill Gates personal technical assistant at one time and employee #77 at Microsoft. It isn't clear when he left but being employee #77, he should almost certainly be a near-billionaire if he didn't do something idiotic like leave in the early 90s. I don't get that he's quite that robusto and it's not clear to me why. In searching for information on Mr. Brodie, I came across this interesting snipet: [ QUOTE ] Richard Brodie acknowledges Whitehead and extends the idea when he claims "the truth of any proposition depends on the assumptions you make in considering it - the distinct memes you use in thinking about it".[2]. Brodie considers half-truths are a necessary part of human interaction because they allow practical application of ideas when it is impractical to convey all the information needed to make a fully informed decision, although some half-truths can lead to a false conclusions or inferences in the world of logic. [/ QUOTE ] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-truths) Given the situation here, this does make you wonder what the whole non-meme-ified story is. There is no doubt Brodie is a very smart guy with a high IQ - he couldn't have been Gates' tech assistant otherwise. I also feel like he's fairly deceptive. 
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#62
06-04-2007, 08:12 PM
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Brodie's tale is a very accurate representation of the type of irrational customer-unfriendly decisions Harrah's makes. [/ QUOTE ] Word to the wise. If you are a "real" cardcounter, don't play blackjack during the series. Harrahs can't stand to lose a nickel to an "advantage player".
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#63
06-04-2007, 08:33 PM
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I just do not understand how this can possibly be the whole story. Is any company really THIS stupid? I know its Harrah's but Jesus Christ... [/ QUOTE ] Friend, trust me, this story applies to every casino in Vegas from the El Cortez to the Palms!
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#66
06-06-2007, 12:30 PM
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Re: Richard Brodie 86d from the WSOP
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[ QUOTE ] I thought this thread was giong to be about him playing 8 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] 6 [img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] in the WSOP [/ QUOTE ] Sheesh, Jurollo! You know I'm more precise than THAT: had your supposition been the case, I would have denoted it as 8d6d. [/ QUOTE ] why add the extra letter?
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#67
06-06-2007, 05:37 PM
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[ QUOTE ] Just remembered. Harrahs was recently bought out by a Private Equity firm. Generally PE is when a company is undervalued or not managed efficiently. Finance guys step in, buy it up, fix the problems and resell it to the market a few years later for like double the price. Once these guys take charge things like this will be a thing of the past. [/ QUOTE ] But will the PE group know how the ins and outs of casino running and how to treat gamblers? [/ QUOTE ] Yes, and everyone' I've met at TPG is smart or scary-smart. They will fix this. Perhaps not today or tomorrow, but...
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#68
06-11-2007, 08:59 AM
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Re: Richard Brodie 86d from the WSOP
Well, he's currently playing the 5K limit and doing OK.
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#69
06-11-2007, 09:09 AM
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Re: Richard Brodie 86d from the WSOP
Matt Matros had said in his blog yesterday that Brodie was reinstated.
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#70
06-11-2007, 03:47 PM
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Re: Richard Brodie 86d from the WSOP
For those that don't realize, Brodie was playing a game that was +EV, 100.76% to be exact. At $300/spin and about 400 hands/hour, that's about $1000/hour that he expected to win on average. It seems he ran much better than average on this trip, and that's what got the casino's attention.
The particular game he was playing is never available in amounts over 50 cents in Las Vegas unless a casino makes a mistake. This casino made a huge mistake in setting this game on this machine. Since Brodie says he made a special request of a slot tech to configure the game to max out at $300/hand instead of $500/hand, it looks a little suspect to the casino that he may have had something to do with the disasterous game being offered in the first place. In addition to the $1000/hour, he was earning huge amounts of comps. Of course, the appropriate response is to cancel his comps, remove the game, and allow him to play the WSOP, but in big corporations, the sledgehammer approach in banning him is the easiest course of action.
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