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MisterV
It's been awhile but IIRC Wong gave up on chasing the DI dream.
Like I said, craps isn't my thing. I have never played. Not 1 dollar. But what surprised me about Wong and DI, was that EVERYTHING about the man was about the Mathematics of gambling. Getting an edge based on the mathematics. And that wasn't the case with the DI thing. It was surprising. I am sure I have told my Standford Wong story either here or at WoV before.
I met him at Westin. I lived just up the street at the Platinum (Koval/Flamingo) at the time and walked to somewhere on the strip most days, so I walked right past Westin. They didn't have much live blackjack to speak of (I think they had a table open on weekends but they weren't going to tolerate my action, so I never played). But they did have a good little cafe/restaurant that I liked and made a great burger, so I stopped in once a week.
So I walked past Wong playing the dealer's angel (was that the name?) blackjack game. So I sat down. Up until that point I didn't know the game was beatable, because I didn't know when the shuffle point was. But I figured if he was playing it, it was beatable. We struck up a conversation and he asked if I counted cards and told me that when they changed dealers was the shuffle point. I had thought maybe that was the case, but didn't know for sure. I did tell him my first name, but never told him that I was a member on his forum. I don't know why. Well....I guess I do know why....thats the way I am. :rolleyes:
A while later I saw him again playing again at Westin. He must have liked that set up. Or maybe it was just a close easy shot from where his condo was on the other side of the strip.