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==Gambling Writings==

==Gambling Writings==

===Introduction to Card Counting===

===Introduction to Card Counting===

In the months before the premier Wednesday Night Band of the [[University of California Jazz Ensembles]], under the direction of Dr. [[David W. Tucker]], went in 1972 to Reno, Nevada, to compete in its first [[Reno]] Jazz Festival,<ref>www.unr.edu/rjf/</ref> Golden, a trumpet player and vocalist with the band and its announcer, purchased Beat the Dealer at the  legendary Moe’s Bookstore in Berkeley, California, and studied Thorp’s complete point count system.  In the next five years at Berkeley, Golden made monthly trips to Reno, with additional trips to Lake Tahoe and Virginia City, Nevada.  In 1977 he moved to Los Angeles to perform research at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a National Research Council Resident Research Associate post-doctoral fellow in astronomy,<ref>http://nrc58.nas.edu/aodir/gen_page.asp?mode=detail&sql=idnumber='760817'</ref> and his gambling excursions were to [[Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]].  He continued to perform stand-up comedy at various venues including The Comedy Store and The Improv.

[[File: LesGoldenUnitedAirlines.jpg|thumb|left|125px|<small> International poster-boy for United Airlines.  These brochures were available at every UAL ticket office and airport terminal in the world.  An accompanying poster was on the wall in every UAL ticket office and airport terminal in the world as well as being printed in every major American newspaper (and perhaps foreign as well).</small>]]In the months before the premier Wednesday Night Band of the [[University of California Jazz Ensembles]], under the direction of Dr. [[David W. Tucker]], went in 1972 to Reno, Nevada, to compete in its first [[Reno]] Jazz Festival,<ref>www.unr.edu/rjf/</ref> Golden, a trumpet player and vocalist with the band and its announcer, purchased Beat the Dealer at the  legendary Moe’s Bookstore in Berkeley, California, and studied Thorp’s complete point count system.  In the next five years at Berkeley, Golden made monthly trips to Reno, with additional trips to Lake Tahoe and Virginia City, Nevada.  In 1977 he moved to Los Angeles to perform research at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a National Research Council Resident Research Associate post-doctoral fellow in astronomy,<ref>http://nrc58.nas.edu/aodir/gen_page.asp?mode=detail&sql=idnumber='760817'</ref> and his gambling excursions were to [[Las Vegas]], [[Nevada]].  He continued to perform stand-up comedy at various venues including The Comedy Store and The Improv.

[[File:CountonLesLogojpg.jpg‎|thumb|240px|<small>Logo for Les Golden's popular "Count on Les" columns for gambling.com print magazine</small>]]

[[File:CountonLesLogojpg.jpg‎|thumb|240px|<small>Logo for Les Golden's popular "Count on Les" columns for gambling.com print magazine</small>]]

===Magic Circle strategy===

===Magic Circle strategy===

[[File: LesGoldenUnitedAirlines.jpg|thumb|right|125px|<small> International poster-boy for United Airlines.  These brochures were available at every UAL terminal in the world.  An accompanying poster was on the wall in every UAL ticket office and UAL airport terminal in the world as well as being printed in every major American newspaper (and perhaps foreign as well).</small>]]The game of roulette, being a game of Simple random sample|statistics without replacement, is not amenable to systems such as card counting, which rely on the non-randomness of the particular game.  If, however, the roulette wheel is not perfectly level, laboratory studies, most notably at the National Measurement Office|British National Weights and Measures Laboratory, and theoretical studies have shown that a skillful croupier can by virtue of muscle memory release the roulette ball with a speed and at a location on the table to bias the bin in which it comes to rest.<ref>Dixon, P. (2005). “Roulette Wheel Testing,” ''Report on Stage 3.1 of NWML/GBGB Project Proposal''</ref><ref>http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2007/ph210/hall1/</ref>

The game of roulette, being a game of Simple random sample|statistics without replacement, is not amenable to systems such as card counting, which rely on the non-randomness of the particular game.  If, however, the roulette wheel is not perfectly level, laboratory studies, most notably at the National Measurement Office|British National Weights and Measures Laboratory, and theoretical studies have shown that a skillful croupier can by virtue of muscle memory release the roulette ball with a speed and at a location on the table to bias the bin in which it comes to rest.<ref>Dixon, P. (2005). “Roulette Wheel Testing,” ''Report on Stage 3.1 of NWML/GBGB Project Proposal''</ref><ref>http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2007/ph210/hall1/</ref>

The Magic Circle strategy takes advantage of this potential bias and the non-random location of the various bets on the roulette wheel.<ref>Golden, Les (2009).  “Vodka Can Make You Tilt:  How You Can Win At Roulette,” ''Bluff Europe'', November, p. 90-92</ref><ref>Golden, Les (2009).  “With The Tips In This Article You’ll Become Wealthy Beyond Your Wildest Dreams!,” ''Bluff Europe'',  December, p. 90-92</ref><ref>Golden, Les (2010).  “Beginners in the Casino:  Camouflaging Team Roulette,” ''Bluff Europe'',  January, p. 90-91.</ref>  Golden showed that, after influencing the croupier to direct the ball into certain sectors of the roulette wheel, a team of players can lay bets in strategic locations on the wheel to secure profitable play.

The Magic Circle strategy takes advantage of this potential bias and the non-random location of the various bets on the roulette wheel.<ref>Golden, Les (2009).  “Vodka Can Make You Tilt:  How You Can Win At Roulette,” ''Bluff Europe'', November, p. 90-92</ref><ref>Golden, Les (2009).  “With The Tips In This Article You’ll Become Wealthy Beyond Your Wildest Dreams!,” ''Bluff Europe'',  December, p. 90-92</ref><ref>Golden, Les (2010).  “Beginners in the Casino:  Camouflaging Team Roulette,” ''Bluff Europe'',  January, p. 90-91.</ref>  Golden showed that, after influencing the croupier to direct the ball into certain sectors of the roulette wheel, a team of players can lay bets in strategic locations on the wheel to secure profitable play.