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| name        = <font color="blue">Les Golden</font><font color="black">
| other_names = <small>AKA Cut the Taxes (political candidate)</br>Leonard Running Bear (political candidate spoof)</br> Scooter (boyhood athlete)</br>Chief ("Cornell Engineer" magazine editor-in-chief)</br>Leslie Detroit (college fraternity nickname)</br>Richard Kullman (Oak Park park district inner sanctum infiltrator)</br>Clete (college baseball player)</br>Moe Silver (character in cartoon strip and stage play "Shrubtown")</br>Les Morris (bandleader)</br>Subrahmanyan Berkowitz (stand-up comic)</br>Jeffrey Clayton Maxwell (stand-up comic)</br>Flash Golden (play-by-play announcer and jazz radio disc jockey)</br>Mark Morris (business name, airline coupons)</small>
| residence   = Oak Park, [[State_Name::Illinois]], and [[City::Reno]], [[State_Name::Nevada]]
| image       = Gamblejpg.jpg
| imagesize   = 190px
| caption     = <small><b>Les Golden</b> counting cards at the Kellogg Graduate School of Business (Northwestern University) Casino Night</small>
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| birth_place = Yes
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| occupation  = Writer, astronomer, professor, musician, stand-up comedian, cartoonist
| known       = Developer of [[Golden Diagram]] <ref name="lexica">http://www.omnilexica.com/?q=Leslie%20M.%20Golden</ref> for blackjack and the Magic Circle Strategy for roulette</br>Influences -- Nina Grace Smith, L. Knowles Cooke, [[Frank Drake]], W.J. "Jack" Welch, [[David W. Tucker]], Edward O. Thorp, [[Del Close]]
| influences = Nina Grace Smith, L. Knowles Cooke, [[Frank Drake]], W.J. "Jack" Welch, [[David W. Tucker]], Edward O. Thorp, [[Del Close]]
| contact     = drlesgo@aol.com; lesgoldencardcounting@yahoo.com; <br>literary agent -  elagencywest@aol.com
| reference   = <small>http://www.geocities.ws/les_golden</br> http://www.oocities.org/goldenforstaterepresentative</br>; cell 773-837-3146</small>
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'''Les Golden''' is an astronomer as well as an internationally-known gambling writer, actor, and political, environmental, and animal welfare activist.  He lives in Oak Park, [[Illinois]].<ref> http://www.illinoisauthors.org/authors/Leslie_Morris_Golden</ref><ref>http://www.librarything.com/profile/Les_Golden</ref><ref> http://www.librarything.com/author/goldenlesliem</ref><ref>http://www.authorsden.com/lesgolden</ref>  He has written for "gambling.com", "iGamingBusiness", "gamblingonline", and [[Bluff Magazine|"Bluff Europe"]] print magazines. He became aware of card counting systems and became a card counter at the popular casino game of blackjack while a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, by reading the 1966 revised edition of Beat the Dealer,<ref>Thorp, E. O.  (1966) ''Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One'', Random House, New York</ref> the seminal work of mathematician Edward O. Thorp, who was aided in his computer simulations by programmers Julian Braun and Harvey Dubner.<ref>Thorp, E. O. (1966),''Beat the Dealer: A Winning Strategy for the Game of Twenty-One'', Random House, New York, pp. 93-94</ref>   As a graduate student in astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, Golden made monthly trips to [[Reno]], [[Nevada]] and played blackjack using Thorp’s systems.  He is the developer of the [[Golden Diagram]] <ref name="lexica"/> technique for countering casino countermeasures at blackjack and the Magic Circle system for winning at biased roulette wheels.  He currently resides in Oak Park, [[Illinois]], and [[Reno]], [[Nevada]].