Archives for "August, 2010"

Posted by Chris on 24th August 2010

That bell boy problem

Jason at The Number Warrior recently posted about the nefarious bell boy who causes hotel guests to lose a dollar: Three people check into a hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager finds out that the room rate is $25 and gives $5 to the bellboy to return. [...]

Posted by Chris on 18th August 2010

How much do bad blackjack strategies affect good players?

The set-up I don’t play blackjack very often, because it’s not a very inviting game. Mostly, this has to do with the people playing the game, of course. But for some reason, every table I’ve ever sat at was filled with cranky “experts” interested mostly in telling me how I was ruining their game. In [...]