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Practical Gaming Is Going Well

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Thanks to all my supporters and fans who are purchasing copies of my new book, Practical Gaming.  Part of all the proceeds go to research a cure for Rett Syndrome.  We are trying to make the quality of life for Rett girls better and if possible, find a way to reverse the symptoms of Rett.

We have a long way to go.

My new book appears to be popular with the low limit card crowd because of my section on forty dollar no limit Texas Hold’em as well as video gamers who are looking for a generic edge in playing.  It is all business when it comes to gaming and the most profitable thing is of course when you get bragging rights after taking somebody out in a nice, first person shooter.

Back to cards, a lot of people are back to playing low limit, No Limit and the $40/50 levels (and up to $100) seem to still be popular though I have to remind readers that if you are planning on going that with just a bankroll of $40-100 you are subjecting yourself to some horrible swings where if you don’t have at least half a rebuy you may go home completely broke after one hand. 

The cards don’t play favorites and sometimes, that is how they roll.  I have been playing a lot of brain development games lately and I am back to teaching tax preparation again as well as doing returns.

If you want somebody to review your income tax returns while you read my books, I am definitely up for that. 

Have a great weekend gang.  Be safe, happy and healthy.

Sep 11 2009

Also, please  don’t quite go anywhere yet.  Having some tax issues or tax questions?  Any problems with trying to make it through the financial Depression we are in that is making you depressed?  Please read on.

I am expanding  my practice and taking on new tax clients.  If you are interested in having somebody who is a successful businessman and tax professional with integrity review your returns discretely and see if your tax guy or gal is doing a good or goofy job, please drop me an email or post a comment with your contact information and time.

I have experience in international business, small businesses, partnerships, multi-state tax returns (they can get complicated) and anything else you can probably think of.

I also do business consulting and have ran several businesses (still running a few) myself so you are in good hands.  Did I also mention that I have authored over a dozen books that are still in print?  I invite you to please check them out.

If you are looking for a day job, part time work, suggestions for saving money or investing, please check out my book, Practical Money Making, that is listed right after his paragraph in this very post. There are some great suggestions and ways to survive the Depression we are in.

Practical Money Making-Surviving Recession, Layoffs, Credit Problems, Generating Passive Income Streams, Working Full Time or Part Time and Retirement

Interested in any of my books? You may want to make a stop over here. Please click through to purchase my books and some other interesting items that actually ARE on sale.

Have you read my book, “Bad Tax Idea, Good Tax Idea“? Please order it today. The tips inside can save you hundreds if not thousands of dollars! Tax planning should be done year round and not just two weeks into January or later.

Part of all the proceeds from the sales of that book go to Rett Syndrome research. One girl is born with Rett Syndrome worldwide every fifteen minutes. My daughter Arianna has Rett.  Thanks for your support.

Kim Isaac Greenblatt

Practical Gaming Is Going Well

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Practical Gaming Book Is Out

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

My new book, Practical Gaming, is out.  Hooray.

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The book covers video game strategies, strategy and tactics games, shooters, Blackjack and Texas Hold’em specifically with a brand new $40 No Limit section since that is what I have been getting more e-mails and posts about.

Practical Gaming

The table of contents is as follows:

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
THE COIN TOSS CASINO
ROCK, PAPER SCISSORS ROOM
FIRST PERSON SHOOTERS
STRATEGY AND TACTICS TYPE GAMES
BOARD GAMES
BLACKJACK
SLOT MACHINES
TEXAS HOLD’EM POKER GAMES
CONCLUSION

 

I had posted an excerpt from the book and you can find it reprinted here:

By the way — this book has pictures in glorious black and white for the playing card examples.  Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I have stepped into the 21st Century and am working diligently in adding more multimedia (well at least pictures) to my books.  Ah, where was I?  Okay, back to the sample.

EXCERPT FROM “PRACTICAL GAMING” by Kim Isaac Greenblatt

The Coin Toss Casino

Welcome to Kim’s Coin Toss Casino.  We are starting off here so you can get an idea of when you are playing a game what elements you need to take into account.  We are starting off with the one game in my casino, namely flipping a coin. 

There are two sides to the coin-one side is heads and the other one is tails.  The way the game is played is pretty simple.  You call out loud what you think will come out when the coin is tossed in the air, caught and thrown by hand on the back of my other hand.  We will pretend to make this game interesting, since it is a casino, that you bet a dollar for each call and if you call “Heads”, and it comes up “Heads” I pay you a dollar.  If it comes up “Tails”, I pay you the dollar.

Pretty simple, yes?  Are you following me so far?  Great!

Now the odds of you getting the correct call are as follows:

Heads – 50%
Tails   – 50%

That also is reflected as 1 out of 2 for each chance.  That means that there is a one out of two chance that you will toss “Heads” and a one out of two chance that you will toss “Tails”.

That means that all things being fair and equal, with no cheating, no fixed coin, every coin toss gives you an even chance that your call will be the correct one and if you are betting a dollar that you would win $1.

Now for the purposes of this illustration I am not making any money on this in my casino.  I make my money by not having an air conditioner, having my casino in the desert and charging $100 for each glass of water.  As you might imagine, I don’t get too many customers in my casino.

Now we come to the questions and answers that drive gamers  nuts.

Here is the first set-up.  You come to one of my tables and a good looking girl elbows you and says, “Wow, I am on a streak.  I have tossed ‘Heads’ five times in a row.  I think there is no way that I can throw another ‘Heads’.  In fact, the odds are that I am going to throw a ‘Tails’.  It is due.”

Is it? 

The answer is no, the odds are still one out of two that the coin will come up heads.  It is a fifty-fifty shot and it can be that our good looking coin toss girl is just on a lucky streak.

The incorrect observation that the girl presented is called, “The Gambler’s Fallacy.”  The definition of the Gambler’s fallacy is the belief that if deviations from expected behavior are observed in repeated independent trials of some random process then these deviations are likely to be evened out by opposite deviations in the future.

That is quite a mouthful but what it is saying is that just because you have seen something happen with random events, it doesn’t mean that things will balance out while you are there watching them.

So what is the probability that you could flip two heads in a row? 

Well, you have a matrix of flips as follows:

Flip 1: H or T
Flip 2:  H or T

Combinations that result could be:

HT
TH
HH
TT

That should be a 1 out of 4 chance that you would throw two heads back to back.  The interesting thing is that the longer a streak continues, the more likely that you should go with the streak and not consider when it is ending from a math point of view.

How about in your daily life?

That is the end of the excerpt.  For more information, please check out the book and you can order it from  Amazon, Barnes and Noble and any fine bookstore within a few weeks.  Part of all sales go to research Rett Syndrome as usual.  If you want to order it directly from me, please drop me a line and we can see what we can do.

Initial buzz from my fans has been good and they like the new Forty Dollar No Limit Texas Hold’em advice that I have given them.  It is making their game more profitable and overall good business so it is a win-win situation.

I am not sure whether my next book will be on special needs or 200 No Limit Texas Hold’em because I am getting some requests for more books on cards.  What do you want to see more of?  Please drop me a line and thanks for your support!

By the way, today is my Mom’s birthday!  Happy Birthday Mom!

 

PRACTICAL GAMING

Publisher: Kim Greenblatt
Published in West Hills , California , USA .
ISBN-10: 1606220039
ISBN-13 978-1-60622-003-0
152 Pages US $15.00

Sep 03 2009

Also, please  don’t quite go anywhere yet.  Having some tax issues or tax questions?  Any problems with trying to make it through the financial Depression we are in that is making you depressed?  Please read on.

I am expanding  my practice and taking on new tax clients.  If you are interested in having somebody who is a successful businessman and tax professional with integrity review your returns discretely and see if your tax guy or gal is doing a good or goofy job, please drop me an email or post a comment with your contact information and time.

I have experience in international business, small businesses, partnerships, multi-state tax returns (they can get complicated) and anything else you can probably think of.

I also do business consulting and have ran several businesses (still running a few) myself so you are in good hands.  Did I also mention that I have authored over a dozen books that are still in print?  I invite you to please check them out.

If you are looking for a day job, part time work, suggestions for saving money or investing, please check out my book, Practical Money Making, that is listed right after his paragraph in this very post. There are some great suggestions and ways to survive the Depression we are in.

Practical Money Making-Surviving Recession, Layoffs, Credit Problems, Generating Passive Income Streams, Working Full Time or Part Time and Retirement

Interested in any of my books? You may want to make a stop over here. Please click through to purchase my books and some other interesting items that actually ARE on sale.

Have you read my book, “Bad Tax Idea, Good Tax Idea“? Please order it today. The tips inside can save you hundreds if not thousands of dollars! Tax planning should be done year round and not just two weeks into January or later.

Part of all the proceeds from the sales of that book go to Rett Syndrome research. One girl is born with Rett Syndrome worldwide every fifteen minutes. My daughter Arianna has Rett.  Thanks for your support.

Kim Isaac Greenblatt

Practical Gaming Book Is Out

 

 

 

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Plan for your future with contingencies

Thursday, August 27th, 2009

Question from a reader:”I am planning on continuing my education and getting a degree in Engineering but I am scared that by the time I get out of college that my skillsets may be obsolete because of new technology.  What should I do, Kim?”

My answer is welcome to the realities of the life that we live and  lead.  I am constantly retraining and re-educating myself and what you will have to do is prepare for a lifetime of retraining.  Oh, it isn’t as bad as you think it is and it does sound terrible.  Consider this though, your brain will be kept young from all the education that you are constantly pouring into it.

I re-train and take 30-90 hours of tax re-certification each year as well as whatever else I need or am interested in.  You need to be disciplined to make a constant effort to want to relearn things.  Once your brain is engaged you should have no problems retraining unless you decide you want to change fields of study.

If you are doing that, be prepared to spend a lot of midnight oil learning things from the ground up.  If for example you are taking a Life Sciences class and you had something similar ten years ago, expect the subject to have changed with new discoveries and a different approach to learning.

My best to you.  You sound like you will do okay and just be ready to retrain.

Here is an excerpt from my new book, “Practical Gaming” that will be coming out in September 2009.  I hope you like it.

EXCERPT FROM “PRACTICAL GAMING” by Kim Isaac Greenblatt

The Coin Toss Casino

Welcome to Kim’s Coin Toss Casino.  We are starting off here so you can get an idea of when you are playing a game what elements you need to take into account.  We are starting off with the one game in my casino, namely flipping a coin. 

There are two sides to the coin-one side is heads and the other one is tails.  The way the game is played is pretty simple.  You call out loud what you think will come out when the coin is tossed in the air, caught and thrown by hand on the back of my other hand.  We will pretend to make this game interesting, since it is a casino, that you bet a dollar for each call and if you call “Heads”, and it comes up “Heads” I pay you a dollar.  If it comes up “Tails”, I pay you the dollar.

Pretty simple, yes?  Are you following me so far?  Great!

Now the odds of you getting the correct call are as follows:

Heads – 50%
Tails   – 50%

That also is reflected as 1 out of 2 for each chance.  That means that there is a one out of two chance that you will toss “Heads” and a one out of two chance that you will toss “Tails”.

That means that all things being fair and equal, with no cheating, no fixed coin, every coin toss gives you an even chance that your call will be the correct one and if you are betting a dollar that you would win $1.

Now for the purposes of this illustration I am not making any money on this in my casino.  I make my money by not having an air conditioner, having my casino in the desert and charging $100 for each glass of water.  As you might imagine, I don’t get too many customers in my casino.

Now we come to the questions and answers that drive gamers  nuts.

Here is the first set-up.  You come to one of my tables and a good looking girl elbows you and says, “Wow, I am on a streak.  I have tossed ‘Heads’ five times in a row.  I think there is no way that I can throw another ‘Heads’.  In fact, the odds are that I am going to throw a ‘Tails’.  It is due.”

Is it? 

The answer is no, the odds are still one out of two that the coin will come up heads.  It is a fifty-fifty shot and it can be that our good looking coin toss girl is just on a lucky streak.

The incorrect observation that the girl presented is called, “The Gambler’s Fallacy.”  The definition of the Gambler’s fallacy is the belief that if deviations from expected behavior are observed in repeated independent trials of some random process then these deviations are likely to be evened out by opposite deviations in the future.

That is quite a mouthful but what it is saying is that just because you have seen something happen with random events, it doesn’t mean that things will balance out while you are there watching them.

So what is the probability that you could flip two heads in a row? 

Well, you have a matrix of flips as follows:

Flip 1: H or T
Flip 2:  H or T

Combinations that result could be:

HT
TH
HH
TT

That should be a 1 out of 4 chance that you would throw two heads back to back.  The interesting thing is that the longer a streak continues, the more likely that you should go with the streak and not consider when it is ending from a math point of view.

How about in your daily life?

That is the end of the excerpt.  For more information, please keep following the blog and you should see the book available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and any fine bookstore within a few weeks.  Part of all sales go to research Rett Syndrome as usual.

Aug 27 2009

Also, please  don’t quite go anywhere yet.  Having some tax issues or tax questions?  Any problems with trying to make it through the financial Depression we are in that is making you depressed?  Please read on.

I am expanding  my practice and taking on new tax clients.  If you are interested in having somebody who is a successful businessman and tax professional with integrity review your returns discretely and see if your tax guy or gal is doing a good or goofy job, please drop me an email or post a comment with your contact information and time.

I have experience in international business, small businesses, partnerships, multi-state tax returns (they can get complicated) and anything else you can probably think of.

I also do business consulting and have ran several businesses (still running a few) myself so you are in good hands.

If you are looking for a day job, part time work, suggestions for saving money or investing, please check out my book, Practical Money Making, that is listed right after his paragraph in this very post. There are some great suggestions and ways to survive the Depression we are in.

Practical Money Making-Surviving Recession, Layoffs, Credit Problems, Generating Passive Income Streams, Working Full Time or Part Time and Retirement

Interested in any of my books? You may want to make a stop over here. Please click through to purchase my books and some other interesting items that actually ARE on sale.

Have you read my book, “Bad Tax Idea, Good Tax Idea“? Please order it today. The tips inside can save you hundreds if not thousands of dollars! Tax planning should be done year round and not just two weeks into January or later.

Part of all the proceeds from the sales of that book go to Rett Syndrome research. One girl is born with Rett Syndrome worldwide every fifteen minutes. My daughter Arianna has Rett.  Thanks for your support.

Kim Isaac Greenblatt

Plan for your future with contingencies

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