Sentry
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Heroes
Mayor, your comments are dead on. Without the kind of ongoing publicity the press has given Thorp, Uston, Hyland, the MIT team and others, I doubt that many of us would be here today. When giving coverage to counters, the story the press sells is: "David Slays Goliath". The public pays little attention to the details necessary to get the job done- they hear "Blackjack can be beaten!" and they race off to the tables. Only a tiny fraction of these novices will eventually go on to become advantage players. Casino profits generated from the publicity of counters, are far, far greater than the dollars extracted from counters themselves.
Sentry
Mayor, your comments are dead on. Without the kind of ongoing publicity the press has given Thorp, Uston, Hyland, the MIT team and others, I doubt that many of us would be here today. When giving coverage to counters, the story the press sells is: "David Slays Goliath". The public pays little attention to the details necessary to get the job done- they hear "Blackjack can be beaten!" and they race off to the tables. Only a tiny fraction of these novices will eventually go on to become advantage players. Casino profits generated from the publicity of counters, are far, far greater than the dollars extracted from counters themselves.
Sentry