Our guests this week are Max Rubin, Don Johnson and Anthony Curtis. We discuss this year’s Blackjack Ball. The Blackjack Ball has been going on for 21 years, and is hosted by Max Rubin. This year Don Johnson was voted into the Blackjack Hall of Fame, and Anthony Curtis won the skills competition. For more details on the Ball see Bob Dancer’s article at Gambling With an Edge
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One of the more interesting things to me about this episode was Anthony Curtis explaining his thought process as he competed against David Spence on the final hand of the competition for the Grosjean Cup. Richard and Max speculated on what Spence’s strategy seemed to be during the same contest.
Turns out David Spence will likely be a guest on GWAE in the relative near future. His visit won’t be about the Blackjack Ball in particular, but I’ll take that opportunity to ask him about being head-to-head with Anthony. To me the “why” of something strategic is always more interesting and educational than just the bottom line of who won the contest.