The Gambler Strikes Back Part4
Now at last the book is completed and ready to turn in to the publisher. But before handing over my manuscript, I determined to return to Atlantic City still one more time, just to see if I could do it again.
On the first Wednesday in June I took the first (7:45 A.M.) bus, arriving at 10:30. In Park Place (the nearest casino to the new bus terminal) at 1 1:00, I made a pit stop at the casino cocktail lounge for a bracer, then headed directly over to the blackjack tables.
How did I do over-all? My score card, reproduced here, tells the story. I did have one close call at Resorts. After feasting on my obligatory King Crab claws,- I left with less than my $200 goal, but managed to climb out of the $1,750 hole that I was in at one point.
Had I lost my seed money it would have been a very expensive seafood lunch. And at the Sands it was touch-and-go for more than an hour. Then I finally eked out a win and ran like a thief. As time was running out—I always plan on the 8:00 P.M. bus back to
My Return To The Casinos Casino
Shoot for Actual Running Total
Park Place 200 +225 +225
Sands 200 +200 +425
Resorts 200 +150 +575
Taj Mahal 200 +575 +1,150
Showboat 200 +650 +1,800
Trump Plaza 200 +350 +2,150
Caesars 200 +450 +2,600
Park Place 200 +375 +2,975
Claridge 200 +275 +3,250
Hilton 200 +625 +3,875
Tropicana 200 +600 4,475
Trump Plaza 200 +100 +4,575
Caesars 200 +25 +4,600
Park Place 100 +50 +4,650
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The Gambler Strikes Back Part3
The Gambler Strikes Back, Parts II and III
1 had an enforced seven-month hiatus while I was recuperating from the traffic accident—then I returned to Atlantic City to see what changes had transpired during my absence.
There were changes all right. The casinos had added more neon and glitter, new and exotic slot machines, some imported from Australia and Europe and, to my chagrin, two of my best shots at the blackjack tables were done away with. Frankly, I wondered why it took both casinos that long to wise up.
Traditionally, I would make my first stop at Trump Plaza each and every trip, winning a hundred or two for my wife Stella, who waited patiently for me on a boardwalk bench. At times her "Mad Money" bank at home amounted to more than $3,000! My only ground rules for her spending were that it had to go for something expensive or something impractical, or both—on something she wouldn't ever spend her own money on. Definitely not for either toilet paper or a paint job for the kitchen. Once, unable to decide among ten chic Eric Javits hats she liked, she went wild with her Mad Money and bought 'em all! w
Returning to my favorite blackjack pit at the Plaza, I was bitterly disappointed to see that the gaggle of $25-to-$5,000 tables had been downsized to Atlantic City's traditional $25-to-$ 1,000 ones. With the spread of $25 to the $5,000 limit I was able to live dangerously and nibble away at the table, green-chip-by-green-chip. Sure, through the years 1 had a few close calls as my bets escalated perilously close to the five-grand limit, but I always stuck it out and many times left the table with at least a hundred or two hundred dollars of The Donald's money. And, yes, there were times he creamed me.
My other blackjack disappointment was at the Sands, where I'd always make a pit stop at their $25-to-$2,500 section. Maybe not as mathematically favorable as the Plaza, but I'd often have a hit-and-run success there, too. They too had eliminated the spread. Now it was $25 to $1,000. Resorts, on the other hand, juiced up their limits on the $25 tables to $3,000. New owners had taken over.
On the flip side of the Atlantic City odds, I was amused to see blackjack tables at Harrah's and Trump's Castle with limits of $50-to-$1000.
This spread is pure and simple thievery on the casino's part. The player has no chance.
Even though my two cornucopia pits had been done away with during my eight-month hiatus, I still rode the bus back to Manhattan with $2,300 of casino money. I just had to quit winners that Wednesday. If I didn't, I'd have no right to write this book.
It has now been more than three years since my spectacular back-to-back clean sweep of the Atlantic City casinos. On both trips I won in each and every casino and lost in none, prompting my publisher to commission me to write this book telling how I did it.
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