Re: Parx caved on Preciado (642 Views)
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Date: April 30, 2016 06:45AM
Mathcapper Wrote:
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> Silver Charm Wrote:
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> > So if I go into a Casino in Vegas and get
> tossed
> > out for counting cards all I need is a good
> lawyer
> > and I can go right back in and get back to
> work?
> > Am I missing something?
>
>
> Guy named Ken Uston tried that many moons ago.
> Uston was a Harvard grad that left his prestigious
> job as VP of the Pacific Stock Exchange back in
> the late 70's to make a run as a professional
> blackjack player. He was barred for counting in
> Atlantic City in 1979, then sued and won in the
> Jersey Supreme Court, which is why you'll never
> see anything close to a one deck game in A.C. ever
> again.
>
> With A.C's move to multideck games to combat the
> counters, Uston went out to Vegas, where he was
> eventually barred as well. He sued them too, but
> with the towns and casinos all in bed together he
> didn't fare nearly as well there. So out in Vegas,
> you can still find one and two-deck games with
> favorable rules, but good luck trying to beat them
> without getting tossed out in short order.
>
> Uston did it for awhile, using clever disguises
> and posing as the "big player" amongst his team of
> trained counters. He'd have his counters set up at
> various tables, and when the count turned
> favorable, he'd saunter on over to that table and
> drop in a few big fat "high roller" bets. This was
> the same method by the way that was popularized by
> the MIT blackjack teams decades later in the book
> "Bringing Down the House" and the movie '21'. The
> MIT guys were given credit for being some kind of
> mathematical geniuses, but all they really did was
> mimic the method Uston invented decades earlier.
>
> Uston eventually gave up on Vegas after many
> backroom beatings and his inevitable listing on
> Vegas's black book, after which he could barely
> take a step into a casino without getting
> immediately tossed. If anyone's interested, he
> wrote some great autobiographical books on his
> blackjack escapades and his dealings with the
> court systems in both A.C. and Vegas. The one
> about Vegas and his fight with the courts, "Ken
> Uston on Blackjack", was a particularly engaging
> and fascinating story.
Uston was indeed an engaging writer . . . and could play standards Erroll Garner-style on the keyboard almost as well as the diminutive Pittsburgh native could . . .
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