SPEAKER_11 0:04

This is MBJ, Tape 4, Side 2. Another uh thing that you might think about in terms of of time management is when you finish a play, the play is over, you will have already committed to memory anything that's necessary for you to know about that play, like uh what is the dealer breaking in uh high cards or low cards or or all the other things that you notice in a game, uh are deuces signaling the end of low card clumps or eights clumping or aces clumping and things like that. You're noticing those kinds of things in a game. Well, when the play is over, the play is over, and you've got to forget about that play. I've been in games many times where somebody will be asking questions about the prior the prior player, making a comment about the prior play and totally miss the play that they're playing, which they're probably playing for four times as much money as they played the prior play, because they just lost the prior play. And and so while they're making a while they're making a hundred dollar bet or four green chips, they're not thinking about that play at all. They're thinking about the prior play. That's keeping your mind on what you're doing, staying focused on precisely what you're doing. I don't mean staying focused from the standpoint of, yeah, now I'm playing blackjack, I gotta forget about everything else. When I say be focused, I'm talking about being focused on every single card and the relationship of those cards to each other. The cards are what tell you how to play the game. They tell you more about how to play the game than anything that I could put in a book. The cards tell you how to play the game.

SPEAKER_05 1:52

Question is, as the casino becomes more aware of our level of play, what are they likely to do in their bag of tricks to counteract what we do, such as speed up the play? I noticed in the team last night they were trying to go by um uh surrenders, that type of thing. They were pulling little things. What can we can you comment on this? What can we be aware of? What are they likely to do as they become more aware of our level of play? Counteract that.

SPEAKER_11 2:17

Then in the uh in the manual, I I mentioned, I think it was in the manual or maybe it was in the newsletter. I can't remember now. I mentioned that it's a good idea to intimidate the dealer just a little bit, and I've showed people how to do it with the with the counting, the counting your chips trick. Uh let me just chips here for a second. Okay, here's uh I'm gonna drop these on the floor for sure. Here's twelve chips, and I like for people, I guess I put this on the video the videotape, I like for people to learn how to count their chips professionally by breaking the pile in half, touching it with your finger to make sure the whole pile is is even, breaking it in half again, and putting it back, and you can learn to do that in a split second, and you can learn it to do it with both hands in a split second. Now, as soon as you want to give a dealer the message that, look, don't screw around with me. You just do that trick in front of them a couple times, or you can develop that other little uh trick with the with the double the double piles. You've seen them do that before, the pit bosses and people like that do it all the time. Uh I like I don't use any camouflage. I want them to know that I'm a good player. This this is my philosophy on the thing. Because they won't cheat. If they know that you're a good player, they won't cheat. You'll be able, you'll get time to insure. Uh you you can do things, you can get away with some things in the game uh that that some of the other people, you can do some cheating of your own, really. You can insure late after you've seen the uh first base player's hit card and things of of that nature. You need to intimidate the dealer a little bit, because the dealer is going to try to intimidate you. He's gonna try to make you hit that 16 when you shouldn't, and he's gonna pass you by too quickly when you should. That's the dealer's job. The dealer's job is to make you lose, and experienced dealers are very, very good at these little nuances that that can screw you up, not leaving you time enough to ensure when he knows that uh that he is blackjack. Even incorrect payoffs, if they think that you're unaware, they think you're a sucker, incorrect payoffs, they'll they'll they'll do that. They can always say they just made a mistake, happens all the time. Incorrect color-offs, all of that sort of thing. I like them to know who they're dealing with. I don't like them to know my name, but I like them to know that they're dealing with somebody that's going to catch them. And when I catch them making a mistake, I tell them, and I tell them I know in certain terms. As soon as the dealers, dealers make mistakes in the count, so-called mistakes in the count of people's hands all the time. For instance, they'll say 17 when you have 16, so that you won't take the hit and lose the hand, things of that nature. I mean, it's there's a tremendous, you can't really call it cheating because you know you're supposed to count your own hand and so forth. And I told you about the trick where where I'll screw up the dealer. Uh I'll I'll count all the cards. The dealer won't be counting out the cards at all, so I'll start counting them very quietly. To the dealer as he deals, I'll be counting out everybody's hand. And then sooner or later when he gets a when he gets a 21, I'm gonna say 22, and he's gonna fold his hand. You know. I like to intimidate them, okay? Because that goes a long way in stopping them. If they're just a little bit nervous, it goes a long way in stopping them from I mean Jerry doesn't have to, anybody that's six foot six doesn't have to worry about these things. But that's that's what I like to do, you know. So I don't necess I don't play like a dumb, I don't pretend I'm dumb and like some of these books, you know, pour pour bourbon on yourself and stuff like that. I don't I don't go in for any of that stuff. I like them to know, look, you know, this is how I signal. I don't want you to think that this means this, you know. And like I had a girl last night, I don't like this, and she says, What does that mean? She says, I don't know what that means. And I says, Well, that's interesting. You don't know what that means. Okay. Every dealer in the world knows what that means. You remember her? You know, so she had me doing this. Like some little pansy. So I so I started doing this. Well, I like I'm very, very deliberate in my signals and things like that. And when you're like that, dealers are not gonna screw around with you, they're not gonna try anything on you. Um, you know, that's my advice because if you're a good player, they're gonna know it. You know, you can't hide it forever. They're gonna know it. Eventually, they're gonna figure out that you're not playing differently because you're stupid. They're gonna figure out that you're playing differently because you're smart. And dealers today will pick it up uh very, very quickly. I was watching this Marine play last night that uh obviously as a street player, he has a lot of street playing experience. And he was virtually playing NBJ. He was hitting hands just from experience. He was he was hitting 13s against 12s and things like that, and and making the plays work, and he was doing very very well in in the in the game, you know. There you you can't hide the fact from a dealer that you're a smart player forever.

SPEAKER_09 8:10

And I was doing uh you're not gonna take the strategy in the article you uh shared with us yesterday from Florida that make bonehead plays to fool the pick on us into thinking you're you're stupid.

SPEAKER_11 8:22

No, you know, no nor do would I any nor would I ever you know every every writer, not every writer, not me, not Jerry, a lot of people that write the books, they say, well, every now and then I make a bonehead play to make them think I'm stupid. You know why I think they do that? Because people watch them play and every now and then they do make a bonehead play and now they got an excuse for it, ready-made.

SPEAKER_07 8:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 8:52

Well, see what I do is I play under a different name, you know, and I have uh my credit cards and so forth are under that name. I uh I was born E. Clifton Davis is the name I was born with, but it's not the name that I play under. So, you know, I don't go in and say, I'm E. Clifton Davis, deal the cards, you know. I mean. I don't think that the casinos can do an awful lot about NBJ. They can do some things about it. Uh the Little Six started shuffling uh every pick seven times after they read our manual, and they did that for a couple of weeks. And then, but eventually it dawned on them that there was no NBJ players in their casino because we haven't sold any manuals up there at that point in time. We sold about maybe 25 or 30 up there. So their casinos were filled with hundreds of thousands of NBJ players, they weren't coming out you know down in parachutes to the little six. So eventually they figured this out and they went right back to their normal shop. Oh, we had one of the casinos here in Las Vegas. After they got a manual, they closed down their uh face-up games for a couple of weeks, but then they opened them, they opened them right back. Now, how do we know that uh that they bought a manual? Because they were quoting our manual to us, to one of our players, in our own terminology, using things like negative progressions and stuff like that. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 10:30

I was just gonna ask, is there a mic back there? George? Yep. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 10:37

I was gonna ask, is there a benefit to the casinos toward the trend of offering face-up games? Is there more economic gain than the average player in that? Should that give us comfort that those will continue to be offered?

SPEAKER_11 10:49

Uh first off, it would require in Atlantic City a change in the the New Jersey uh casino control board rules for them not to offer face-up games. I think also that the casinos have learned that the public prefers, and and naturally so, the public prefers face-up games to face-down games for obvious reasons. We'd like to know what's going on in the game. And I think that that sales feature of the face-up game is going to outweigh NBJ. Consider this, there's 20 million blackjack players in the world. Uh NBJ is is never going to represent uh any anything approaching 1% of those players. I don't think the casinos are going to act to less than one out of a hundred right now, certainly less than one out of a thousand. Uh it's it's even a lot less than that. Casinos aren't going to react to those kinds of numbers when they have card counters coming out of the woodwork. Anything that they do to the game to disfavor us, recognize that we operate on clumping, so anything that they do to us, they've got to swing the game back toward random to hurt us. Well, for every one of us, there's got to be a 500 card counters that are going to react to the situation that the game's random now. They'll eat them up in a random game. So I don't think there's much they can do. There's a few little tricks that they can do. They can uh uh it's not legal yet in Atlantic City, but I guess it's legal here. They can burn cards between rounds to screw up, a burn card between every round to screw up the first base player. It screws them up a little bit, but it doesn't kill them. It's almost the same as playing first base from second base, or from the second chair rather. And somebody mentioned to me uh today that they had good success in doing that uh last night. And our experiments have shown that you can play the first base system from the second chair almost as well as you can play it from first base. So I don't think that that little maneuver and the casinos would bother us all that much. And the third base player, there's really nothing, he looks like a card counter. Okay? He's watching the cards intently. In fact, if if if I want him to think that I'm a card counter, sometimes I do want him to think that I'm a card counter. Because a lot of times Atlantic City, what they'll do if they know there's a counter in the game, is they'll move the cut card up. And when they move the cut card up, the cards actually get an extra shuffle because the the unplayed cards get shuffled twice each time. So when the game is too clumped, I'll actually pretend that I'm a card counter. Sometimes I'll accidentally say a couple numbers out loud plus eight, plus eight, you know, to my soft letter. And then boom, there goes the cut card up halfway up the deck. You know, and now that's going to change the whole shuffle and it's gonna unclump the card somewhat, and if that's what I'm looking for in the game, if they're too clumped, I may I may do that to them.

SPEAKER_09 13:55

George? I'll uh I'll take you off if you're in my experience, NBJ is hard work.

SPEAKER_04 14:07

How do I take in my experience NBJ is hard work and I can't picture 20 million people putting in the effort to actually do this, play that game. Good point. Most people can't even play basic strategy and count cards when they bought the books and practice them.

SPEAKER_11 14:23

Yeah. That's a good point. You really do have more to learn than the card counter does. You know, I mean the card counter is it's just practicing a simple trick. We showed you yesterday how you count cards. But NBJ, and it's not as tedious as card counting. From that standpoint, it's easier to do. But there's much, much more to learn in NBJ than there is in memorizing a basic strategy chart or or practicing card counting till you can count a deck in 15 seconds or or whatever. And I I think that you're right. I don't I don't think there's going to be an awful lot of people that are gonna want to put in that kind of effort. I think that there are many of you that are just now discovering really and truly how much effort it takes. You can't just read a manual and play a few hands and think that you understand it. Most of us can't. There's some people that actually can, but most of us can't do that. We have to we have to practice it and practice it and practice it, and we have to read it and read it and read it, and it comes to us in in drips and and drams. Uh one one exception was uh Harvey, but Harvey's a very brilliant individual and was with a card counter for years, and I thought when I went down to the Bahamas to play with Harvey that I would see somebody that's not not really playing NBJ. That's what I expected because I knew he only read the manual a a few times and he did it very, very quickly. But when I watched him play, he played flawless MBJ. He had it right down to a Nats whisker. He was he was he's probably the best player of of all of us as far as MBJ is concerned. Question down there?

SPEAKER_07 16:06

Yeah, uh like with with home practice, it's a continuing thing, the way I understand it. And what's an adequate, I mean, two hours a day, an hour a day.

SPEAKER_11 16:18

You've got to realize that if you you know, if you study it, it is kind of complicated. Uh it get by the way, it gets less complicated as you go rather than more complicated. It gets a lot less complicated, and things start coming to you a lot clearer. I mean, I can un I can feel from some of the questions that were asked that there are some of you that are getting it very, very well, and there's some of you that are just haven't quite got it yet, that just need to read the manual a couple of more more times. But I I even when I practice uh at at home, uh I I find that you're pretty much wasting your time after three hours. For some people that's gonna be and now when I say three hours, I'm saying three hours a day total. It that three hours may be broken up into to different segments during the day. But past three hours, you're you're pretty much spinning your wheels. You can burn yourself out on this stuff, and you know you can practice until uh until you can do it in your sleep and you're not really paying attention to what's to what's going on anymore. Yes, Ryan?

SPEAKER_00 17:28

Just to to tie into that three hours thing, there's been a lot of studies done about uh learning curves and so on, and it's been found that your retention rate drops off drastically after 90 minutes. So uh and in fact it's been found that the optimum study period is about an hour. Uh so maybe what uh the thought that comes to mind is if you're gonna do two or three hour marathons, that's fine, but break it up. Break it up, do your hour, go do something else, maybe you go jog or whatever you do, bicycle, sleep, whatever it is, and then come back to it. And notice notice notice the yawning. If you start yawning a lot in the middle of it when you and you say, I just got up, I mean, why am I tired? You're not tired. What you've done is you've gotten in over your head, there's something you don't understand, and that yawn says you've probably gone on too long. Yeah. Take a break and then come back and start over.

SPEAKER_01 18:23

That's a question to Ron. Are you talking about short-term retention rate or long-term retention rate at this point?

SPEAKER_02 18:28

Short-term will be okay because long-term will you will suffer profitable.

SPEAKER_01 18:33

Okay, I I agree with that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_11 18:35

Well, yeah. Some people have asked me, well, geez, you know, I work for a living. Where do you find the time for all of this practice? I work for a living um too. You you know, there's such a thing as time management at home. There's such a thing as time management in your life. Bruce is just in the game of blackjack, you know. Well what I used to do is get up early, get up real early in the in the morning, maybe an hour early. I go down to my bathrobe and and pajamas. You know, blackjack doesn't make a whole lot of noise, you know, you just deal in the cards, you know. Uh although uh every now and then I would stop shuffling, you know.

SPEAKER_08 19:18

These comments on time management end the two-day weekend class, and at this time to end this instructional audio tape series, I would like to incorporate the highlights of the NBJ half-day seminar that was held on Friday, January 31, that actually preceded the class. The uh there were over 100 MBJ players, by the way, that attended the seminar, so we got some good questions and uh the highlights uh of this uh half-day seminar follow.

SPEAKER_11 19:54

Here's another trick to recognizing uh clumping, and you might try this in your home practice. Instead of looking for high and low clumps, just look at the tens ratio. Look at the tens ratio up to the dealer's hole card, and then look at the tens ratio after the dealer's hole card. Consider a high tens ratio as a high clump and a low tens ratio as a low clump. That works very well. I have quite a few players that are playing that way in Las Vegas, and they've called to tell me that they like that a lot better. Now, other players, by the way, particularly if they're used to Atlantic City, don't like it better. So it's six of one, half a dozen of the others. Personal preference. You might try it and see if you like that better. What you do is as a dealer starts to deal the round, look at the tens ratio and particularly notice what it's doing at the very end just before the dealer's hole card. Okay? If, for instance, the tens ratio were 60%, 60% tens, the chance of the dealer having a 10 in the hole is 60%. If it's 30%, the chance of the dealer having a 10 in the hole is 30%, and so on. You can do your hit card the same way, and the same ratios will hold. If you know, if you play 10,000 hands, you'll find out that those that those ratios uh come out quite exactly. So you know exactly what the chances are of the dealer's pull card being high or low. You know exactly what the chances are of your hit card uh being high or low. That works out fairly well. I still feel that people who can recognize the clumping and they aren't in they aren't involved in all this this accounting fare a little bit better because they can they can examine the clump and say, okay, I've got a high tens ratio here, I've got a high card clump, and I've got it at the tail end. I've the most recent information. So that's very strong evidence versus maybe. A high card or clump that started out as a high card clump and then tailed off toward the end. That's weaker evidence of what of what the dealer's hold card is and what the what the hit cards are.

SPEAKER_02 22:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_03 22:20

You indicate you indicate a betting spread of s 1 to 6 or 61. 146. 146. Okay. My experience has been playing that I sit down and there is a big percentage that I get wiped out. One bet, four bets, six, I'm gone.

SPEAKER_02 22:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 22:39

So I want your uh your opinion on this. I change my spread and I go one-one four on the same type game, one and one and two. Or one, two, four. So that gives me a longer span and spread, and whether I'm in the right game or not, it seems like I'm in action and all of a sudden I'm starting to make the right plays, or am I doing the right plays, and I'm getting my doubles and catching a blackjack, and I'm in action, but in the one four-six, I get wiped out.

SPEAKER_11 23:12

All right, let's talk about the one-four-six.

SPEAKER_03 23:15

Uh this is a negative progression.

SPEAKER_11 23:17

Yeah, 146 negative progressions. 146 negative progression is is the strongest progression that there is. However, in the manual, in the manual, and I caution you now to go back and read that section of the manual again because you missed something in there, it tells you to test the water. Okay? Tells you to test the water with lower progressions. Go in with a 1-1-2, go up to a 1-3-4, and then go to your 1-4-6 after you know the game is good. Okay? But don't take too long to do it. Because recognize that you can't play progressions all day long without losing one. So the longer you play, the more likelihood you're going to have of losing a progression. So if you take forever to get up to the 146, there's a good chance, you're increasing your chances of losing it the first time you play it. However, recognize that if you play, first off, what you're doing is you're you're going back and reinventing something that was a lot of years in the making in the 146. Okay? And you're hurting yourself by doing it. And here's why. Here's what you gotta look at. How many hands does it take for me to make up for losing a progression? Alright? You'll find that with a one, two, four, it takes about twenty, sixteen to twenty hands, I can't remember exactly, sixteen to twenty hands, to make up for losing that progression. Okay? But a one, four, six, you can lose it once every 12 hands. Once every 12 hands and not lose any money. Okay? A one, two, four, you can lose it, you can lose it once every 16 hands. I think it was the number, uh, and not lose any money. Okay? You see the difference? In other words, in a game that you're winning with one, two, four, you're gonna win a lot more with one, four, six. Okay? In a game that you are losing with one, two, four, you can be winning with one, you can possibly be winning with one four-six. Okay? If you're losing, it's better to be playing one-one.

SPEAKER_02 25:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_11 25:48

But if you're winning, one four six is if you're winning, one four, six is the best progression that you can be playing. And and there's you can often it often makes you a winner where one, two, three, or one, three, four, or one, two, four will make you a loser in that game. If it's a close game, it could easily make you a winner.

SPEAKER_03 26:08

So stay with one four-six.

SPEAKER_11 26:09

Yes. But test the water first.

SPEAKER_03 26:14

Well, I I'm 68 years old and I can't test the button water.

SPEAKER_11 26:22

You should be in the you should be in the 146, just to give you a rule of thumb. In a good game, you should be in the you should be in the 1460s by the end of the first shoe.

SPEAKER_03 26:31

Yeah. Okay. Okay, go ahead. Thank you.

SPEAKER_10 26:34

Go ahead. Alice, I have a I guess it's uh a question in uh defined definition. What is the difference between low cards running and high cards not running?

SPEAKER_02 26:48

Uh good question.

SPEAKER_11 26:50

Okay, that's that's where we started today. You see, there's three possibilities, not two. There can be low cards running, there can be high cards running, or neither one. Nothing's running. It's neutral. You don't know what's running, and they'll each occur about a third of the tang. Okay? So when it says when it says are high cards running, uh, you know, double if high cards are running, double if tens are running, for instance, okay, that's that's only one of three possibilities. It can be neutral where you wouldn't double, okay, or it can be low where you wouldn't double. That's the difference. If you just look at it, that the cards are either high or low, there is no difference. But if you look at it that the cards can be high, low, or neutral, high, low, or random, then there is a difference, and you'll see the difference when you look at it that way. Okay, let me just make a couple comments before we get back to these questions here. Um if I seem distraught when people ask me questions that are in the manual, recognize that I get about five, six hours of phone calls per day, and about half of those are questions that are in the manual. I haven't seen I haven't able to watch a TV movie in the last six months. I haven't been able to do a lot of things in the last six months that I would rather be doing. So I do tend to get a little short with people that ask me a question that's that's in plain black and white in the manual. The other day, Jerry and I got a 10, 12, where is Jerry? What happened to us? 10 or 12 page uh deal in the mail. Did you get a chance to go through that yet, Jerry? That with the tape and all that we got in the mail?

SPEAKER_12 28:43

Not yet, no.

SPEAKER_11 28:43

Okay, I haven't either. Well, it's 10 or 12 pages long, plus a video tape. Oh, here's a guy that is asking, you know, serious about asking questions. And I went to the back page, you know, I thumbed through it. I only had I was I was getting ready to come here, so I only had a few minutes to look at, and I went to the back page, and the last sentence in there was the guy said, I think I'll go back and read my manual for the second time. Now I tell you, you can't understand the manual reading it once or twice or three times. There are there are people here who will agree with me that they're in they're learning stuff in their 15th reading. Okay? Somewhere in the manual I talk about all the light bulbs will eventually turn on. But it takes a lot of readings to get to that point where all of the light bulbs will will turn in. And when you first start reading the manual, it seems to be very disjointed. Uh but as you read it more and more, you'll see that it is one system. It's one tied together system. All the components of it are in fact tied together, but it takes a few readings and it takes some practice before you get to that point. And although, as much as I talk about the importance of home practice and the manual, recognize that home practice is not everything. It's a substitute for the real thing. Okay? It's the best, it's the only really substitute that we have. Well, well, now we have Boris's as well. But none of those things take the place of real casino play. And real casino play, you're being dealt to at speed. The dealer is dealing to you at speed, and that tells you a lot more things than in home practice when you're dealing yourself and you're keeping records and so on and so forth. You can see what's happening in the game when the cards are coming at you at speed a lot easier than you can see what's happening in the game in home practice. So, in some respects, casino play is easier than home practice. But the big thing is in casino practice, you can practice table selection. You can go from one game to another game, you can see different game types. When you practice at home, okay, you may be in the same game type for a month. All right, you know, because you only had that one game going. So I've had people say, and then I suggested in the manual, well, geez, I have more than one shoe of cards, you know, and I keep these other shoes under the table or whatever. But what is that other shoe that you got under the table? It's a game that you couldn't win last week, so you put it under the table. Well, it's not going to change, you know, from being under the table. You still can't win that game, so you're still not going to be happy with it. Those are the kinds of the things, the things that you give up, you know, because of the fact that that you can't practice in the casino all the time, because practice. What you need to do in a casino, when you're in a casino and you're in a game, you need to beat that game. Okay? You need to find out what it takes to beat that particular game. No game of blackjack has ever been played twice. Every single game is an individual game with its individual characteristics. What is going on in that particular game? Somebody says, Well, geez, I'm only getting four low cards in a row. That's what's going on in that particular game. You're getting four low cards in a row. You ought to take note of that fact because that's very good information. I'm never getting more than four low cards in a row. Now that ought to tell you something. Don't bet you're gonna get a fifth one in that game. Okay? You need to find out what's happening and get in that game, learn to read that game. Now you can't do these things overnight, but you can get to the point where you can sit down in a game and figure out what's going on in that game very, very quickly. Decide whether whether it's a good game or a bad game, and a lot of times just saying, just the way you play the game makes it a good game. Somebody came up with a comment last week uh of NBJ home run games. They're home run games for NBJ player, okay, maybe a third bass player playing 146. And everybody else in the game is losing, but for the NBJ player, it's a home run game. Every single game of blackjack can be beat. They can't come up with a game that can't be beat. It just seems that way. Okay? And there's some games that you're better off to get out of, a lot of games that you're better off to get out of, rather than sit there and figure out how to beat it. Okay, because it's going to take you too long to figure it out. But once you get in a game and you're doing fairly well, okay, and you've decided to stay in that game, you need you need to keep absorbing information about that game. What are the characteristics? What can I take advantage of in this particular game? Am I getting our our Ace ACES call?

SPEAKER_08 34:02

Those comments wind up the highlights of the NBJ half day seminar. I'd like to encourage uh you to uh attend a uh an NBJ seminar if you have not already done so, and also to consider the benefits of a weekend class and a uh and or a weekend play session. Uh there is one other area that I want to review before we sign off on this uh NBJ audio tape series. And that is the side bet uh called Over Under. I'd like to make sure you understand this bet and how to exploit it because with the power we have with NBJ, it may not last long. Now, the over-under bet is offered by only a few casinos. There are one or two or three uh in Las Vegas. There is one in Lake Tahoe, there is one currently in Atlantic City. Uh these casinos are listed on your NBJ hotline. The bet is placed, you can bet up to the full amount of your regular bet for this hand. You are betting that your first two cards will total more than 13, which is over, or that your first two cards will total less than 13, which is under. If they total exactly 13, it's a push, but the dealer wins the pushes, and you should know that ACE is counted as one. The strategy in using NBJ is to first of all sit at first base. Secondly, to note the last card of the prior round. If it's a 10, you're obviously thinking high. If it's a low card, you're obviously thinking low. Now you need a little bit more supporting or confirming data before you make the bet. What you'd like to see if you're betting uh high or over is a high tens ratio. You'd like to see this high tens ratio and especially the final uh cards, the final series of cards leading up to that final ten. Uh if there is a tens clump that's beginning or that's uh continuing leading up to that final ten, that's confirming evidence uh for your over bet. Conversely, if that last card was a low card and you're thinking under, you'd like to see a low tens ratio round, and you'd like to see the clump or the final series of cards leading up to that last card, uh last low card uh as a low card clump. Uh this essentially is the strategy. Uh again, obviously, it plays best from first base. Uh you can play it from other positions uh if you want the optimum, maximum advantage, I recommend first base. Now uh the new casino uh up in uh Leadyard, uh Connecticut, Foxwoods uh casino also offers uh some of the tables offer uh over under. You can play it there. Uh there was one casino in Minnesota that offered over under. Uh one of our NBJ players uh uh killed this bet. I'm not sure if any casinos in Minnesota are offering this bet right now, but again, we do list them on the NBJ hotline. If you have any questions about this bet, this side bet, uh please give either me or Ellis a call. Now, a few final comments on your NBJ continuing education program. Uh, you should definitely consider the NBJ newsletter. You will be receiving information on this. Uh, as of this time, February 1992, we have published uh two editions. Uh one of them came with uh your uh uh home study course uh which discussed uh surrender, the uh other side bet, and the other uh was published in January of 92. We publish them every uh four months or every three months rather. Uh the fee is a very modest uh $95 a year. Uh in terms of the weekend classes, you will be hearing about these in uh letters uh from me. Uh the one I would like to especially stress is the weekend play session in which we meet and focus on blackjack play with experienced NBJ dealers uh who can point out mistakes, point out nuances, uh identify clumping, uh work with you on your decisions, on the primary and secondary indicators, and also on the determination of the game type. Uh, you will be hearing about these from time to time. I would like to encourage you uh to uh make the uh time, take the time, invest the money to attend one. It will pay off many times over. And finally, uh the uh we are coming to believe that we will get uh additional data on this uh as 1992 unfolds, that the four-person team uh will be the most optimal uh way to play NBJ. We are currently working with two teams, one that plays uh a table takeover, four-person table takeover in Atlantic City. Uh the other team we are currently training uh to travel to and exploit the very, very favorable conditions uh that exist in South Africa uh right now. Uh that's uh it for this uh MBJ audio tape series. We invite your participation in this continuing education program, and uh we know it will enhance the profits that you're pulling uh from the blackjack tables. Thank you, and I thank you very much for uh participating in our program, and uh we are here to stand behind it, uh to work with you. The uh percentage of winners, uh, the success rate of this uh outstanding methodology is uh orders of magnitude higher than any other system that I've ever seen used or marketed, and we're here to stand behind that and ensure that you are getting optimum benefits from your NBJ home study course. If you have any questions or problems, both Ellis and I are here to help you and we welcome your phone calls. Thank you.