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Blackjack Hit And Run
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How to Hit and Run
Thumb through any of the gambling magazines that have proliferated in recent years and you'll see page after page of ads from self-proclaimed experts who, for a fee of anything from ten bucks to a thousand, will sell you the in-secrets of beating the table games, or beating the slots.
Now take a deep breath and reread the above paragraph. Do you really believe in your heart-of-hearts that, if these advertisers really knew any sure-fire ways to consistently win money from the casinos, they would let you in on their secrets? Believe me, pal, if any alleged know-it-all hotshot actually stumbled upon a way to beat the casinos at their own games, you could hang him by his thumbs and shove a hot poker up his ass and he still wouldn't tell you!
After forty years of casino gambling the only way I know to beat 'em is to hit and run, always wary of "staying too long at the fair."
Make sure your goal is to Quit Winners and, dammit to stick to your predetermined win figure. Yes ! know: You're on a "streak" and you're raking in the chips. Sure, it's hard as hell to tear your-self away from the table. But you have set a limit on what you want to win, and now you have to be man or woman enough to stick to it. Having reached your predetermined goal, simply pick up your chips, cash them in, and head directly out the door, off to the next casino. If you overstay your welcome, you are in dire peril not only of losing what you won, but also your table stakes as well.
Once at the Stardust in Las Vegas, before the prevalence of purple or white ($500) and orange or yellow ($1,000) chips, black chips ($100) were generally the top unit of wagering at the tables. Gamblers strolled the casino with the wooden racks now used for dollar slot machine tokens. I was doing very nicely, thank you, with my tray almost completely filled with blacks. Two more steps away from the cashier's cage, I decided, what the hell, I needed to win just two more blacks to fill it up and make it a neat $5,000.
Twenty minutes later I put the empty wooden tray on top of a slot machine and sadly shuffled out the door. Had I stuck to my guns and not tried to get those extra two chips, I would have quit winners. Learn from me: If you've got your projected squeeze from the udder of the casino cash-cow, leave with their money. Don't overstay your welcome, else you'll be dumping your empty wooden tray on top of a slot machine as you drag-ass out of the casino door, a loser just like me.
When I go to the casinos, I play a nibble-away game. As I write, there are twelve licensed casinos in Atlantic City, but actually thirteen operating casinos. One of the licensees, Bally's, finessed the Casino Control Commission by appending a satellite casino to an operating casino, thus having two casinos working on one license. (Trump tried it, and tacked the old Playboy, then the Atlantis, onto his Plaza, but went bust.) Bally's Park Place erected a brand-new casino, the Wild West, and built a connecting passageway between the two.
For me, the more casinos on the block, the merrier. Once I went to Connecticut and tried my luck at the Native American.
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These days it seems that anybody who has made more than two trips to a casino has written a book on how to win. I'm willing to bet there is more than one gambling book out there written by an idiot who never even saw the inside of a casino. One pundit with a hardcover book on wagering, bearing the imprint of a major publisher, writes about betting at the Sands in Las Vegas with $50 chips. Maybe this asshole ducked into the Sands to use the Men's Room, but I guarantee he didn't stay long enough to look at the chi ps on the tables. No $50 denomination chips exist or ever existed in any Vegas casino. Not ever.
Mark Twain once quipped, "It isn't what people don't know that'll hurt them, it's what they do know that just ain't so."
Another "expert," writing on how to beat the slot machines, gives the reader a hot tip: Always play the slots on the aisle, as these are the ones the casino have set to be loose so the passersby will be seduced into playing because it looks so easy to win. The only thing wrong with this "inside tip" is that it's false. All the slots in all the casinos are blindly computer-controlled with respect to the winning combinations, so one slot machine is as good or as bad as the next. And I've read in more than one gambling book written by a self-anointed "expert" that the machines at the top, or end, of the aisle are the ones that pay off best. Total applesauce. The machines in between are just as likely to pay off as the ones at either end.
Another so-called expert, this one on blackjack, advises the reader with great authority to always take insurance, and to take advantage of "surrender" when offered. In reality, both are piss-poor moves for a player. Still another self-styled expert on playing the craps table gave in his book the odds on Place and Come bets on the numbers, except he gave incorrect odds!
Always remember that just because something is in a book, that doesn't mean it's correct.
All the information in this book, in regard to things that I personally was connected with, is the Real McCoy. I give you my personal guarantee on that. On stories that I picked up from the media I usually identify my sources, and I've saved all the clippings whenever I could, so I can back up my reports as far as they go. Want proof? You can write me in care of the publisher and I'll send you documentation where available.
Not every author is so careful in checking sources. Years ago I sat down with a friend of mine who was writing a book on literary censorship, and I let him pick my brain. I pride myself on being very knowledgeable on the subject. Knowledgeable yes, but, as it turned out, not infallible. Somewhere along the way I had learned of the existence of a pornographic operetta by Gilbert & Sullivan, commissioned by Queen Victoria entitled The Sod's Opera. The original manuscript was reported to be safeguarded in a locked bookcase in the British Museum's Private Cabinet. This x-rated piece was said to have typically clever Gilbert & Sullivan characters such as Scrotum, An Old Retainer, The Bollox Brothers, "A Pair of Hangers-on at the Court. . . ." You get the picture. Without checking, my friend put it all into his book.
Twenty-five years later, I have seen it reprinted in more than a dozen books, here and abroad. The only problem is that the x-rated operetta by Gilbert & Sullivan doesn't exist! A couple of years after the book was published I met the world's foremost authority on Gilbert & Sullivan, who informed me that the story was pure hoax.
This is why you have to be wary of information that you read in a book, especially in a gambling book.
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