Post by Magnet Man on Jan 30, 2008 19:02:16 GMT -5
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Long ago, when I was much younger, I gambled with the I Ching in Las Vegas and it played a telling trick on me that I have never forgotten.
I remeber driving from Los Angeles to the gambling mecca in Nevada with a gut feeling that I would win the fortune that several different fortune tellers had said would come my way. I booked a room at Caesars Palace and spent some time alone in meditation. I threw the coins inside the bedroom sixty four times, applying odds to yang and even to yin each time. I carefully wrote down the sequence and then went on down to the casino floor to give the roulette wheel a whirl.
As I rode down the escalator and saw that were over a dozen wheels in operation, I realized that I had not factored in exactly where, when and how I would start the sequence. I decided to go to the nearest table and check out if the sequence would run for at least a dozen rolls before laying my first bet.
My plan was to start with a hundred dollar chip and let it keep doubling. Naive as it sounds, I was serenely certain that the magical ritual I had conducted would work. .
This is the part that nobody is ever going to believe.
The sequence worked correctly for twelve consecutive spins of the wheel.
I had my list open in my hand, ticking off each correct spin.
If I had placed my $100 bet on evens at the beginning of the run, I would have been $200,800.00 ahead at that point.
During the spins I had noticed that I was being watched by a couple of beefy suits as i checked off my list while the sequence ran. With the magic happening right in front of my eyes and my excitement rising, I realized that when I started to actually lay my bets there would be greater level of interest coming from the floor managers and wondered what they would do about it.
Well you have probably guessed the rest. I laid down the $100 bet on the 13th spin. It was a losing gamble and the magic was suddenly over.
I can't tell you the amount of times i have wondered what would have happened on that 13th spin and the 51 spins to follow if I had not tried to grossly enrich myself via magic.
Long ago, when I was much younger, I gambled with the I Ching in Las Vegas and it played a telling trick on me that I have never forgotten.
I remeber driving from Los Angeles to the gambling mecca in Nevada with a gut feeling that I would win the fortune that several different fortune tellers had said would come my way. I booked a room at Caesars Palace and spent some time alone in meditation. I threw the coins inside the bedroom sixty four times, applying odds to yang and even to yin each time. I carefully wrote down the sequence and then went on down to the casino floor to give the roulette wheel a whirl.
As I rode down the escalator and saw that were over a dozen wheels in operation, I realized that I had not factored in exactly where, when and how I would start the sequence. I decided to go to the nearest table and check out if the sequence would run for at least a dozen rolls before laying my first bet.
My plan was to start with a hundred dollar chip and let it keep doubling. Naive as it sounds, I was serenely certain that the magical ritual I had conducted would work. .
This is the part that nobody is ever going to believe.
The sequence worked correctly for twelve consecutive spins of the wheel.
I had my list open in my hand, ticking off each correct spin.
If I had placed my $100 bet on evens at the beginning of the run, I would have been $200,800.00 ahead at that point.
During the spins I had noticed that I was being watched by a couple of beefy suits as i checked off my list while the sequence ran. With the magic happening right in front of my eyes and my excitement rising, I realized that when I started to actually lay my bets there would be greater level of interest coming from the floor managers and wondered what they would do about it.
Well you have probably guessed the rest. I laid down the $100 bet on the 13th spin. It was a losing gamble and the magic was suddenly over.
I can't tell you the amount of times i have wondered what would have happened on that 13th spin and the 51 spins to follow if I had not tried to grossly enrich myself via magic.
