Can I ask the gamblers who are members of this BB to speak up?! Or raise your hands real high so we can all see who you are!!!
Thanks!!
If I asked a gambler that in public years ago, he would have run for the nearest exit door! Even at 37,000 feet!
But now we're all a wee bit proud to admit that we gamble a little. The word "Gambler" is not as detrimental as it used to be.
I have a few questions to ask of those gamblers who are genuinely interested in the roll of the dice and the turn of a card. Gamblers who are interested in gambling enough to spend a few hours with a decent "how to gamble" book or even a few terms in a mathmatical college of higher knowledge.
These are usually the few, the proud, the gamblers who want to know all about the odds of event "A" happening before event "B" occurs. They are the ones who spend the time to learn how to figure it all out before stepping foot inside a casino door
These are the guys and the gals who probably carried a slide rule to school each day and got involved with computers when a computer had to be built from scratch with dips and switches and other mysterious mechanical parts.
They wern't nerds yet, but they were heading in the right direction. It was just around the cornor!
Some of them only in their teens did constructive things with computers in their infancy. They would feed the computers information and the computers would regurgitate lists and lists of numbers which only the nerds could fully understand.
It is a standard policy that nerds communicate freely with other nerds and within a month or so the entire little town of Las Vegas was filled with nerds. Wall to wall nerds in every casino. And every nerd with a computer printout searching for an empty blackjack space.
Nerds at every table, scratching nerdy notes on nerdy scratch pads waiting for the next round of blackjack cards to be dealt!
And then they were gone! Not one nerd left in the whole darn town! They were all back in school house dorms, reading Las Vegas casino blackjack notes and feeding regurgitating computers.
And so the Blackjack Basic Strategy was born and perfected and passed to other computer nerds through nerdy electronic channels. And Las Vegas was once again fully booked with not an empty blackjack chair in sight!
And the casinos took a beating. For the first time they knew not what to do! A beating by nerdy looking people in nerdy looking clothes!
Then one of the smarter casino executives discovered the best solution.
"Let's hire a nerd to work for us!"
So every casino hired the best nerd that they could possibly find.
And these best nerds developed ways to counteract the Basic Strategy that they themselves had developed with their fellow nerds so perfectly.
The smartest nerds saw the handwriting on the wall and left the casino confines and began writing Basic Strategy books to teach the non-nerds of the world how to play this new and winning system. These Basic Strategy bibles were successful in encouraging all the dreamers to head west and beat the Las Vegas casinos before the casinos changed the rules.
So dreamers everywhere bought the books and flew off to Vegas with mortgage payments in their pockets.
Most had never read past chapter 3 nor fully understood when to stand and when to hit, when to double and when to split; so they went home with empty pockets and mortgage payments in arrears.
"Hey, these new books encourageing new players are great for my casino!" said the casino executive in the fancy suit. "Those nerds did a great job for us! Just make sure we treat these new players harsh when and if they start to count! We don't want no expert players in this casino!"
So once again, all was on an even keel in Las Vegas. Lots of dreamers loseing lots of money. That's the way it's gotta be cause no one wants to gamble in a little wooded shack in the middle of the desert!
The point I really want to make here is that it did take some really smart guys with some really smart computers to shake up the casino bosses who actually believed they were the smartest guys in town.
But the real smart guys .... call them nerds or just real smart guys with ancient computers .... they did take the time to learn the game and found a way to beat the house before they placed a dollar on the table.
In my book, that's darn smart!
But many people - not too very smart - arrive in Las Vegas each and every hour of each and evey day. They know not a thing about the games they play!
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