There is a wealthy Texan who loves to play roulette so much he calls his favorite club and makes bets over the phone. He bets five or six numbers at a time at $25 a number and hangs Onto the phone while the casino roulette wheel turns. Often he wins a couple of thousand dollars and hurries to Las Vegas to collect. Of course, once he arrives he plays more roulette and usually loses what he won over the phone plus thousands of dollars extra. Unbeknownst to the Texan, the bosses let him win over the phone so he'll come to collect and play some more. This has been going on for years. The Texan is probably a million dollars loser by winning a couple of thousand dollars when he calls. Howard Hughes doesn't like to be seen in public much these days but years ago he was not so modest and Vegas was one of his favorite haunts. About two o'clock one morning Hughes came into one of the largest Strip clubswhich he later bought with a girl on each arm. He walked up to a crap table and asked to see the boss. The boss was sleeping but when they told him who was downstairs he jumped out of bed, dressed hurriedly, rushed into the casino, and embraced Hughes. Hughes said he wanted to shoot craps so the boss hurried over to the cage and brought back a rack of $100 chips$ 10,000 worth. After all, one of the richest men in the world would hardly want to start off with anything less. Hughes took a $100 chip from the rack and asked for change. The dealer gave him twenty $5 chips. Hughes tossed two of the $5 chips to the dealer and asked for more change. He received ten silvers, the lowest the club had. Hughes told one of the girls to throw the dice, and he bet two dollars on the line. She threw a 9 and he took two dollars odds and bet two on the come line. She threw a 10 and he took two dollars odds. On the next roll, she threw 7 the loser. The dealer scooped up the money. Hughes gathered his $9,992 in chips, pushed them toward the owner, said, Send me the bill," and walked out. A big player in his 70s who had a very bad heart lost $100,000 recently at a Strip hotel. He told the boss he would send the money with one of his partners when he got back home. The partner left with the $100,000, but the big player instructed him to call and see if he was alive before paying the marker. If I'm dead," the player continued, then keep the money for yourself. You deserve it after being such a loyal friend all these years." Upon arriving in Vegas, the partner discovered the player had died of a heart attack during the night. Grief-stricken, the partner sat in his hotel room for hours trying to decide what to do. He knew his friend had a reputation in Vegas as a very honorable gambler and that leaving the debt unpaid would tarnish his image. Finally, the partner decided the memory of his friend was more important than money and he paid the marker. A month later an audit of the company's books revealed that his gambling friend had been cheating him for years and that's how he could afford to go to Vegas all the time. A little Egyptian fellow wearing a red fez with a gold tassel and sun glasses walked into the casino in a large Strip hotel and started betting $500 a time on the fieldall cash. A crowd gathered and several of the casino employes and bosses remarked that the Egyptian looked very familiar, probably because they had seen his picture in the newspapers. Finally he went broke, losing $17,000, and asked a boss for something to eat. Certainly," the boss said. But haven't I seen you some place before?" I don't think so," the Egyptian replied, and the club wined and dined him. The next day he showed up again, this time through the employees' entrance, wearing a white busboy's jacket for the job he had been doing the last ten years. The story eventually leaked out and the casino employes learned it had taken the Egyptian ten years to save the money for that one-day fling. He's now working toward another one. Systems I am against systems. They are good for the club and bad for the playerand this is a book for the player. But I have been asked so many questions over the years, thousands of questions, about systems that I've finally come to the realization that many, many people are going to play systems in ever-increasing numbers regardless of what they are told. I see it every day in the casino, For that reason, I've collected the top systems in the world for you to use. There are only a few but some are proven systems played by pros and hustlers throughout the decades and it's with the greatest reluctance that I make them public. Don't worry. The casinos won't be wiped out. casino bosses know that even if everybody in the world were given a booklet containing some of the proven, winning systems in the following pages, only a handful at best would devote the time, patience, and hard work needed to walk away winner. One of the first victims of systemitis" was the Benedictine monk who invented the roulette wheel several hundred years ago. He had plenty of time on his hands, as monks usually do in between prayers. It took him twenty years to perfect the roulette wheel. The story goes that he then tried to find a way to master his invention and win enough money gambling with the other monks to buy a new bell for the monastery. After ten futile years of trying thousands of ways to win consistently, he went crazy and hanged himself from the steeple. In the centuries since then thousands of systems have been tried unsuccessfully, but no one has ever come forward with a system that wins consistently. The only sure system player I've seen win over and over is the one who banks the game. System players are a breed of their own. They are convinced that theirs is the only sure-fire systemuntil they lose their money. Then they go home and try to put together another way to beat the game. They never give up. They are worse than horse players. There's one system player who's been around Las Vegas for 25 yearswe'll call him Lucky".and he has collected thousands of systems, any type for any game. You want it, he has it. They are neatly filed in five large metal cabinets. Of course he doesn't have the money to play the systems himself, but every now and then he'll find some poor schmoe to give him money to try one of his many thousands of systems. Lucky's main problem in getting backers is his sloppy appearance: wrinkled threadbare clothes, unshaven, greasy stringy hair, holes in his shoes. But occasionally he nabs a live one." I was present a few years ago when Lucky won $3,000 playing one of his favorite crap systems. I suggested that he rush out winner for once and then advised, Why don't you get cleaned up and look presentable? Buy some clothes and a wardrobe. That way you'll be able to pick up customers more easily." He looked at me in amazement. How can you talk like that?" he asked. I need this money for my system," he added, heading for the crap table again. Well, that's the way system players are; they're dyed in the wool. You can't change them. The only thing that differs is the way they keep track of their systems. Pencil and paper is the most common device. Of course, system players make sure that they have plenty of paper. They have large pads, small pads, medium pads, large boards, blackboards, and ouija boards. In Monte Carlo I saw a fellow standing between two roulette tables keeping track of his system on rolls of toilet paper to make sure he wouldn't run out of paper to write on. His idea was to record 30,000 to 40,000 roulette ball spins and put a book out to show what numbers had hit on the thousands of turns he watched. I really don't know what any reader would learn by looking at the record of the thousands of spins, but Icould have told him what to do with the roll of toilet paper;even though I'm sure he'd been told the same thing many times. Another system player used two number clickers in his pockets, one for each side. His favorite game was craps. He would click one clicker when a field number hit and click the other clicker when a nonfield number showed.
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