Never Split Tens! A Biographical Novel of Blackjack Game Theorist Ed
Renowned probability theorist Edward O. Thorp revolutionized the casino industry by developing card counting systems for the casino game of blackjack. Les Golden, the celebrated blackjack, roulette, and craps columnist for Bluff Europe, Gambling
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A Biographical Novel of Blackjack Game Theorist Edward O. Thorp
PLUS Tips and Techniques to Help You Win
Never Split Tens!
Leslie M. Golden
Never Split Tens! A Biographical Novel of Blackjack Game Theorist Edward O. Thorp Illustrations by the author
PLUS Tips and Techniques to Help You Win
Leslie M. Golden Center for Computational Astrophysics Oak Park, IL, USA
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To my parents, Anne K. and Irving R. Golden, my beloved pets Duffy, Tweetie, Byron, Cicero, Skipper, Emerson, Newton, Maxwell, and Enrico, and Kitty, the feral cat who let me take her into my home, as well as Whitey, Blackie, and Momma, my most recent rescued felines, the family of birds in my window at my apartment on Broadway in Oakland, the fluffy white dog on Broadway near my apartment in Oakland, and Chirpie my robin and Finchie, the blinded red house finch I brought back to health and released, to a loud, exultant chirp of joy, and all the other needy, stray, and abandoned dogs and feral cats and kittens, opossum, raccoons, rabbits, squirrels, rats, mice, chipmunks, birds, and other wildlife, farm and zoo animals, fish, flying, burrowing, and crawling insects, and trees, bushes, plants, and grasses, all residents of the Earth, that I have befriended, loved, saved, tried to save, and mourned. We don’t own the Earth; we simply share it. Oakley reasoned out loud, in furious thought. “Blackjack, for crying out loud, is not a game of chance!”
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