Reply #150: i worked for a card counting team and, yeah, this kid is dealing/laundering drug money

[pitohui]

this is a very weak attempt to make it sound like he has a legal source of income, believable only to parents or wife/girlfriend who want to be deceived

the blackjack "system" described bears no relationship to any winning system and since the game was "solved" in 1960 it isn't like it's a mystery how you win by counting cards, hole carding, etc -- if dad wanted to know the truth, a few minutes research into the real literature and the real winners would quickly reveal that what his son describes is a "system" that is mathematically proven to lose money -- in fact, this kind of betting system was discussed in the original thorpe's mathematics of gambling, where he shows why it HAS to lose money -- just as gravity HAS to make the apple fall down onto newton's head and not fly up into the sky

but there are none so blind as those who will not see

it will all end in tears but if you really wanted to know the truth, you wouldn't be posting on DU, you would have already investigated some of the widely available literature and then investigating some kind of intervention/attorney to help your son -- he's clearly involved in something that generates cash that he has to launder, and my best guess is drugs -- i guess at his age maybe he's a lost cause, in which case, you still need to protect yourself, if your wife takes drug money or the proceeds of drug money (what if he pays off your mortgage, what if he buys YOU the expensive car?) then there's a chance that when the hammer comes down, you'll be federal prison along with him

i know a man it happened to, his mom ended up in the slammer too because she received some of his money and was considered to have helped him launder it -- in his case, it was wildlife, not drug smuggling, but same song, second verse, right?

do not believe what i have said, stand up on your hind legs and research the open, easily available literature on how to win at blackjack -- then try it for yourself -- no one is making $40K a month profit at the seminole hard rock casino, NO ONE

protect yourself, protect your wife, and if you can, help your son, if you can't...well, he's a grown-up

but you must know in your heart that it's a lie because i notice you haven't tried to use this simple system yourself -- why? because you hate yourself, you hate money, and you want to lose and be broke your whole life? -- um, does that sound like you?

no, it's because you know he's lying and you don't want to burst your own bubble

seriously, if you really believed this crap, why wouldn't you be playing cards in a casino right now? if you think the game particularly "loose" at seminole hard rock casino, why would you be posting this crap on a public internet forum instead of selling the information for pay to stanford wong's "pager service?"

oh wait...i get it now...do YOU by chance happen to work for the good folk at the hard rock and do YOU by chance profit if more desperate gamblers come pouring through those doors?