I've told this story before but this is what can happen to you if you teach even one person a current play. A friend of mine showed up in Laughlin on his case $1000. He begged me to show him a play. I finally relented but told him I wouldn't do it if he was gonna teach anyone else. He swore not to teach anyone.
I handed him the Tom Ski flush 50 strategy and taught him how to sweep the unlinked, 101.8%, flush attacks at the Pioneer which would put him up around 105%. Discounting out the royal and the straight flush he would still have 2.5% the best of it, with the biggest cycle, 4500, being on the 4 Aces. This is a strong shot for a $1000 bankroll. And I told him not to start playing straight though until he at least had a few thousand. That way if he ran cold he would still have enough money to to back to the sweep.
He got through the window. About a month into it I walked in and there was his girlfriend playing. "What's going on there?" I asked. "She told me she was gonna dump me if I didn't teach her" he responded. "Yeah, I know" I said. "That the kind of trap a man can get himself into." So then I had to deal with two added pros.
A couple of weeks later I walk in and there's her mother and brother playing. "You don't even have to tell me" I said to him. They were in every day. I had to start working around them, coming in at off hours and stuff. And the added weight of 4 more pros caused the Pioneer to knock the game down to the 100.9% version.
In my gambling world no good deed goes unpunished.
