> --- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Mickey" <mickeycrimm@> wrote:
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> "Well, I can take a $1000 bankroll and triple it in a week PLAYING >MACHINES. I can do it every time, without fail. I doubt if they could >do that."
> "You can do it every time, without fail?"
> "That's right, Pat. Every time. Without fail."
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> "ggman444: wrote:
> REPLY: The caption and text reminded me of:
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> (1) A story told by Ken Uston in one of his books. A hustler who >hung out in the Jockey Club offered Uston slightly favorable >proposition odds that he (the hustler) could call correctly (heads >or tails) on a coin that Uston brought and flipped. The guy won so >often that Uston stopped taking the bet. He never figured out how >the guy >did it. Anyone??
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My way of tripling a $1000 bankroll is not quite so magical as the hustler Ken Uston ran into. I can do it but it would take me about 120 hours of scouting and playing. In other words the play has a very small bet to it, no downside risk, but doesn't have a very good hourly rate. That's the type of play one would have to have in order to pull off being able to triple $1000 every time.
After 19 years of experience I think I can say two things about myself:
1. I'm not very good at getting rich at gambling. I've never had a bankroll over $60,000. This mostly has to do with laziness. Trust me, I'm a lazy kind of guy. I only need so much money to live. I never let my living expenses get above $1000 a month. I never buy anything on credit. If I can't pay cash for it I don't want it. The bar tab is actually my biggest bill, or at least it has been, but I'm working on cutting that down.
2. I'm damn good at not going broke. This is actually my biggest feat in gambling. I just don't go broke. I don't care how far down I spend my bankroll I have "no risk grind out plays" like the one described above to bounce back with.
At least I can say all this "from where the sun now stands." The one constant in gambling is "everything changes." Just like one's position around the sun.
