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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>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)</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 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
| reference   = <small>http://www.geocities.ws/les_golden</br> http://www.oocities.org/goldenforstaterepresentative</br>drlesgo@aol.com; cell 773-837-3146</small>
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'''Les Golden''' is an internationally-known gambling writer based 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 <i>gambling.com</i>, <i>iGamingBusiness</i>, <i>gamblingonline</i>, and [[Bluff Magazine|<i>Bluff Europe</i>]] 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 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]].