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From Blackjack to Black Monday

Risk of Ruin

CHAPTER

The Biggest Hiding Block in Blackjack

The longer you play the more inevitable a massive losing streak becomes. Blair also cross paths with other pioneers of the game including the inventor of various Blackjack computers, the Silicon Valley engineer Keith Taft. He had one of their first computer in the shoe operations where he inputted cards through his toes and got a signal back through a buzzer that zapped him at the various places.

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