Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-11-27 | Page 10 | Playing a System

PLAYING PLATING A SYSTEM Just a word hero about systems of gambling ambling followed by various players layers their sir name is le legion on some plausible some ridiculous some based on elaborate elaborate rate ate calculations some giving wonder r. r ful fn results on paper and all aU failing 7 woefully woe woo fully fully at the tables t AttU fifteen years of experience at Monte Carlo writes a newspaper e correspondent cor cor- r. r respondent costing a n sum sum I should be ashamed to name after a thorough in investigation of more than different ft systems and progressions progressions- after hav ing toyed a L mathematician I can canay cansay say bay with certainty that it is absolutely impossible for any anT system to win at Monte Carlo Sir Hiram Maxim is wrong when ho says the chances arc are ten to to toone one a against the player I say they are a hundred to ono one against be play play- or lr This is rat rather er an overstatement for fora a few players do win b by luck lack no not by f system or by a system based on luck as when a man backs the number of his hotel room or a woman backs lacks her age Perhaps 2 or 3 per cent of oC the players win occasionally and the rest lose not noto o oil only ly because o or of the banI banks bank's percentage percenta e and an tie the restraining maximum but because because be be- cause this is a struggle between a man end and a n. machine a machine a man with nerves and emotions a machine with no nerves and no DO emotions L Let t the system be ever everso r-o r perfect the gambler with strength of will to follow it has bas not yet been born If he be had such strength of will wiH he be would not be a ambler Clevelan Cleveland Cleveland Moffett in in Success Magazine