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A list of embarrasing, egregious errors on the Tommy Hyland episode
Mar 23, 2005 10:54 AM
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After watching the "Card Counting King" episode about Tommy Hyland, some friends have put together a list of some of the editing and outright factual errors.
1. They play single deck at Resorts on opening day, when it wasn't available.
2. He trains a player to count down a deck in Hi-Lo. The next-to-last card, a deuce, brings the count to +1. The last card, a nine (!), restores the count to zero! (In Hi-Lo, a nine card has a value of zero, not -1, and so the deck count was just plain wrong.)
3. He gets trespassed and, as he leaves, tells a fellow player to stand, because "the dealer is going to bust." With a ten up (why would he say the dealer was going to bust??), dealer flips a ten in the hole and hits it with a third picture (!!), to bust with ... 30!!!! (No way a dealer, anytime, anywhere, is going to hit a total of 20!)
4. He goes to Las Vegas in 1982 or 1983 and The Mirage is behind him on the Strip. Unfortunately, The Mirage opened in November of 1989.
5. He walks into the Windsor Casino, where they're dealing from a shoe. Next scene, he sits down and we have a hand-dealt single-deck game.
6. Max Rubin gets the definition of "dependent trials" wrong by calling them "composition-dependent trials."
7. Also saw them using a cell phone pre-1984, when the first ones were launched in this country and none were small handhelds then.
8. The show also made the comment that Atlantic City died after WWII because of cheap jet service to Vegas. US commercial, domestic jet service started in early 1959 and didn't go to Vegas. Cross-country trips in the early '50s were arduous journeys.
9. An easy one - They use the new $100 bills on all the programs.
Many of these are very basic errors, though some would only be caught by a card-counter. Hey, isn't Tommy Hyland a counter? Why didn't they just ask him? History Channel really screwed this episode up!
Bettie Paige
AdvantagePlayer.com
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Re: A list of embarrasing, egregious errors on the Tommy Hyland episode
Apr 5, 2005 3:51 AM
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This is by far the closest I have ever been to crapping myself in laughter:
Word of advice; if you have the flu, leave the television off, lest you find yourself bearing witness to a blackjack dealer who hits when his count is twenty. We have all seen dealers do dumb things you say? Right you are, however the dealer looked absolutely awestruck when he didn't pull the ace needed to win. My hypothesis is as follows, the real dealer for that rotation was in need of a quick phone call to patch things up with his/her significant other. Rocket Science Boy, the mental midget custodian, happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Thus, lacking the mental power to defend himself from the coercive words of said dealer, found himself donning appropriate garb and receiving a thirty second instruction lesson on the finer points of blackjack. To be, of course, immediately followed by his procession to the table at which he would then expound upon the world his newfound wealth of knowledge. Mr. Hyland, having been witness to this debacle, merely followed Mr. Boy to the table and won every hand that followed. Unfortunately for his rent money, Rocket Science Boy's brother, Brain Surgeon Boy, failed to realize that he wasn't at the roulette table. This is the point at which we join them at the table. Security nabs Mr. Hyland, who gives the recommendation to stand to Brain Surgeon Boy, Who of course does. We are all then treated to the egregious scene of Rocket Science Boy hitting on a twenty. And as Mr. Hyland is hauled away, the Boy brothers sit in awe at the spectacle before them that is their own stupidity, wondering how he knew.
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Re: A list of embarrasing, egregious errors on the Tommy Hyland episode
Jul 27, 2005 12:01 PM
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The issue with almost all of your concerns is that Breaking Vegas, more than any other show on the History Channel, is made to be entertaining. Small errors such as the Mirage and cell phones are there for a reason - the Mirage was there because there was no point in cutting it out of the skyline when everybody is focused on Tommy anyway. Cell phones are there to let the scenes move more smoothly. While the History Channel does tend to wander from the facts just a little with Breaking Vegas, it is rarely anything big enough to be called egregious.
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