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Can the human brain be declared an unfair advantage in a casino? Does speed of thought qualify as cheating? In the gambling community the practice of card counting is still a hotly debated topic, but for not the gambling industry that will call card counter, Ken Uston, a cheater.
Uston is an amazing gifted individual when it comes to the brain. His mental abilities are to the intellectual arena what Michael Jordan was to basketball. He possess a 169 IQ as well as an MBA from the Harvard School of Business Administration. He also tacked on a degree from Yale, just to balance things out. If you add to this the fact that he was also a world class musician, you begin to get the picture of man who could have done anything in life.
Professionally, Uston was the senior vice president of the Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco. Of course everyone needs a hobby. On the weekends he would shed his three piece suit, gather some friends and descend on Vegas and Atlantic City like a voracious pack of really smart wolves. This group of card counters would dominate the Black Jack table wherever they went. The damage they inflicted to the house was so grave that casino’s have labeled using your brain as a form of cheating. The act of counting cards is by the gambling establishment's definition, an unfair advantage. Vegas casinos eventually blacklisted Ken. After that he simply took his act to Atlantic City.
In 1976 gambling was legalized in Atlantic City, and this is where Ken now decided to call home. He won millions of dollars at this eastern version of Vegas, but it wasn't long before he was banned there as well. Eventually he was the subject of a worldwide ban, and could never play at a casino again.
In 1987 he was found dead in his rented, Paris apartment. The circumstances that surround his death continue to be questionable, but most agree that foul play was involved. |
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