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The Gambler Strikes Back Part5
Manhattan—I prudently bypassed the two outlying casinos in the distant Marina, concentrating on the Boardwalk's ten casinos. I won at Park Place three times on the trip, compensating me for the two out-of-the-way casinos I bypassed. With less than an hour to make my bus, I won an extra twenty-five bucks at Caesars, and finally ducked into Park Place to win two green chips, which I put into my pocket and will use on my next trip to the seashore.
What was my final score card tally? I was in 14 casino forays and won 14 times.
So I did it again. But don't think I'm cocky and smugly self-assured over my sweep. Just the opposite. Each and every trip to a casino is a dramatic risk. Odds favor the casino, so if I'm not on guard constantly I know I'll go down the toilet. And as my old score cards reflected, there were days when I was wiped out, more days than I care to remember. My golden words of advice again: Hit and run. Nibble away. Never go for a big score in any one casino!
Frustrated, I noticed a couple of seats open at a $10-minimum table, so I thought what-the-hell, I only want to win a few bucks for a clean sweep score card, so I sat down and played a green chip on each of two spaces. To my delight, my first spot had a blackjack, and my second spot had a neat 19. With two great hands it didn't immediately dawn on me that the dealer had dealt his two cards face-up, showing a 19. He paid my blackjack, but only with even money. I told him I would, of course, stand on my 19, and then I bitterly learned the bitter truth about this particular table: It was a "Double-Exposure" blackjack table, with the words arcing —not very clearly—over the players' spots in the table middle. Except for those words, the layout was identical to all the other blackjack tables. Damn hard to notice, unless you're looking for it.
I learned that by "Double-Exposure" rules my 19 was loser against the dealer's 19! The only way I could win was to top the dealer's total, which meant / had to hit my 19/ Sheer madness, but what could I do? I closed my eyes and hit, drawing a King of spades for a total of 29, the highest amount I ever drew in a blackjack hand.
The blackjack I had only paid even money, to compensate for the dealer's open hand. Happily my blackjack win canceled my Kamikazi hit on my 19, and everything evened out. I grabbed my two chips and ran to the cashier's cage, and then out the door.
My advice: Look before you play, and stay far away from "Double-Exposure" blackjack.
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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
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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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