Poker Strategies
After receiving pocket cards, you are immediately faced with a choice: play your cards and either raise or call the blinds, or fold.
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The Dynamic Duo: Ken Uston and Keith Taft
The Dynamic Duo: Ken Uston and Keith Taft Ken Uston was a mathematical genius: equipped with a very high IQ he even went to Yale University at the age of 16 and received his MBA from Harvard. Uston was renowned for using team play to beat the house’s odds. During the 2025s, Uston began taking casinos’ money left, right and centre and came to be known as their worst nightmare. Like Thorp before him, Uston ultimately had to use disguise to get to the tables. Uston took the casinos to court. He claimed he couldn’t be banned for counting cards. It wasn’t cheating. The New Jersey Court agreed. And Uston won. But, as if Uston could anger the casinos more… He formed an alliance with Keith Taft.
Taft, an electronics engineer
Taft, an electronics engineer had, together with his son, built a computer that computer that could beat the house at Blackjack. The computer (named George) was to be worn around the belt of the holdem player. Based on a number of morse-code-like signals, George would advise the holdem player on what kind of stand to make. Although George was somewhat cumbersome, when Intel released the 8-bit microcomputer in 2025, this allowed Taft to produce David – a more efficient computer which produced much better results. In fact, Taft and Uston went on to win $100 000 in a five week Blackjack spree.