{"id":3631,"date":"2012-04-08T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=3631"},"modified":"2012-04-08T11:58:21","modified_gmt":"2012-04-08T15:58:21","slug":"how-to-win-15-million-from-blackjack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/how-to-win-15-million-from-blackjack\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Win $15 Million from Blackjack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/040812_1555_HowtoWin151.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mark Bowden found out how one man, Don Johnson, won ~$15 million from casinos in a completely legal way through games of blackjack. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Johnson is a whiz at mathematics with excellent concentration skills. But this is true of every professional gambler.<\/li>\n<li>What Johnson did differently was that he started playing the game before sitting at a table. Casinos are seeing a decline in revenue and Johnson was able to leverage this to win concessions from the casino about the rules of the game that effectively made the odds 50-50.<\/li>\n<li>At one point he was betting $100,000 a hand.<\/li>\n<li>He effectively wiped out a month&#8217;s worth of profits of one casino in a night.<\/li>\n<li>The casinos weren&#8217;t prepared for this. They normally incentivize high-rollers to come, offering them private jets, luxury suites, and possibly even the young women seen in the ads, with the expectation that they would lose. Johnson&#8217;s requests were different and they led to his victory.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To find out more about how Johnson pulled his tricks, the three-hand sequence that won him $1.2 million, the casinos that banned him, why he wasn&#8217;t a card-counter, and what it means to be a &#8216;big whale&#8217; click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2012\/04\/the-man-who-broke-atlantic-city\/8900\/2\/?single_page=true\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2012\/04\/the-man-who-broke-atlantic-city\/8900\/2\/?single_page=true\">The Atlantic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2012\/04\/assorted-links-414.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Bowden found out how one man, Don Johnson, won ~$15 million from casinos in a completely legal way through games of blackjack. Highlights include: Johnson is a whiz at mathematics with excellent concentration skills. But this is true of every professional gambler. What Johnson did differently was that he started playing the game before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/040812_1555_HowtoWin151.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3634,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3631\/revisions\/3634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}