One evening after he'd done two shows, we were sitting in the lounge at the old Landmark Hotel talking. This was quite some time ago. It had to have been. The Landmark closed in and they blew it up five years later.

We were talking about compulsive gamblers — the kind who even when they win have to give it back trying to win more — and Pete said the following…. They call it a 'loan. It wasn't a lightbulb that went off in my head. It was more like the big illuminated canopy that opened in Downtown Las Vegas on Fremont Street, about the same time they imploded the Landmark.

That canopy has It can even make me brighter. Winning at Blackjack had stopped being fun to me. The way I played — the way I won — I might be sitting at the table for three hours to walk away a few hundred ahead.

If I'd spent those three hours upstairs in my room on my laptop, I might have written something that paid better than that. And I didn't take up Blackjack for the money.

I took it up as kind of a personal challenge…to see if I could do it. Also back then, it was impossible in Vegas to play Blackjack and not inhale a lot of second-hand cigarette smoke.

I dislike few things in this world as much as I dislike cigarette smoke. At the time Pete said what he said, I was ahead playing Blackjack. And his words gave me the answer — the only answer — how to stay that way.

I decided I'd proved whatever I was trying to prove and I quit and I'm still ahead and always will be. If I sound like I'm bragging, yes. I'm proud that I wasn't stupid enough to keep on playing.

And I should mention that if I did ever go back to Blackjack, I wouldn't do it in Las Vegas. Vegas has become a town where there are few bargains and where the corporations who run the place are competing to see who can wring the most dollars out of every visitor. There are no more cheap shows or cheap buffets.

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Bj21 uses cookies, this enables us to provide you with a personalised experience. I took it up as kind of a personal challenge…to see if I could do it. Also back then, it was impossible in Vegas to play Blackjack and not inhale a lot of second-hand cigarette smoke. I dislike few things in this world as much as I dislike cigarette smoke.

At the time Pete said what he said, I was ahead playing Blackjack. And his words gave me the answer — the only answer — how to stay that way. I decided I'd proved whatever I was trying to prove and I quit and I'm still ahead and always will be.

If I sound like I'm bragging, yes. I'm proud that I wasn't stupid enough to keep on playing. And I should mention that if I did ever go back to Blackjack, I wouldn't do it in Las Vegas. Vegas has become a town where there are few bargains and where the corporations who run the place are competing to see who can wring the most dollars out of every visitor.

There are no more cheap shows or cheap buffets. There's almost no cheap anything. There are some cheap rooms but even those have "resort fees" that make them non-cheap rooms.

They keep raising prices and since people are willing to pay them, those prices get raised more and more. One Vegas website I follow says all the casinos are getting stingier with comps — free eats, free rooms, free show tickets, etc. They no longer give much of anything to folks who play at my lower levels.

Just try and find one now. Those are minimums and whether you're counting cards or not, it's not a good idea to sit down at a Blackjack table unless your bankroll is a hundred times the table minimum.

If you play long enough at any table, there will be a point when the cards turn in your favor but if you get tapped out quickly, you may never get to that point. Vegas is also changing the rules and not in ways that favor the players.

When I played, a Blackjack also known as "a natural" — an ace and a ten-value card paid 3-to That may not sound like a huge change but it really eats into your winnings…or as the casino would call it behind your back, your loans.

If I ever tried card-counting again, I'd have to learn everything all over again as per the new rules. The only thing that would be better than the old days is that there are now smoke-free Blackjack tables around…and that ain't reason enough.

Another one of those folks who asked me not to give their name here asked… You've mentioned several times on your blog than you used to engage in card-counting at Blackjack and that you played a lot when you went to Las Vegas and won.

We were talking about compulsive gamblers — the kind who even when they win have to give it back trying to win more — and Pete said the following… "You know what the folks who work the tables here call the money you or I would call our winnings? Fuel for Thought They Don't Need Me!

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