The problem with winning at blackjack and sports betting is that sooner or later a big guy in a suit tells you to leave.
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Part Seven, Signal and Noise, Hong Kong Syndicate, p. 323William Poundstone
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A baseball game, if it goes 5 innings, is official for betting purposes for betting either team. Whatever (commissioner) Bud Selig or anyone in baseball declares is completely different from wagering rules in sports books.
Bud Selig
How can you hope to win against goddamn time travelers? It's like playing blackjack when the dealer is God. … Come to think of it, all of life is a blackjack game with God as the dealer, isn't it? So this is no worse.
Dean R. Koontz
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
Oscar Wilde
Theological myths suit philosophers, physical and psychic suit poets, mixed suit religious initiations, since every initiation aims at uniting us with the world and the Gods.
Sallustius (or Sallust)
Generally, a betting system for which each wager depends only on present resources and present probability of success is known as a Markov betting system.
Richard Arnold Epstein
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