"Beat the Dealer" was a good book and there were small cards in an envelope in the back.
As a mental game, a person could learn one or more cards and then play with real money.
this was long ago and silver dollars were used. I got some and sat at a table.
as time passed I had to get a larger container and I gave my colleagues stakes so they could lose money sitting along side me.
At some point I started to keep track of the dealers. They used a cricket to tell the dealer he was being replaced.
I felt that if they replaced 3 dealers in 45 minutes, then I was peaking out in gambling using what was called "5's theory".
When I retruned 20 years later, the casinos had learned more about stopping amateurs from winning from them. Most noticable was the way they changed the decks. Now they use four decks. The hands can also be played much faster.
Lotteries work with some nice stuff for the players. A player can choose his numbers.
In Montana, I always played Kino during the evening meal. I worked with scientists and applying technology to the problems of people with little disposable income (converting coal to energy without burning it and NCAT). Again silver dollars were used and you could choose the card you played with. So winning was more up to the player than the cage operator. People liked to watch me play just as the dealer supervisors did.
In summary, there is a human element in most entertainment called gambling.
the guys who found DNA (Watson and Flick) now work on consciousness as neuroscientists. (See Koch also)
I looked at myself. Four wave forms are working in the mind. One is there to transfer stuff to the conscious. Sometimes when they hook me up, it takes over an hour to get me wired (and less time to unwire me because I get to do the scrubbing later) A test can last 8 hours. they are just checking as to why I stop breathing over and over. BUT they find out other things too.
In trading to develop more advanced opportunities, I have been asked to answer questionsdaily continually for over a year. the focus ws on the same thing as the dealer supervisors focussed on in vegas.
The MIT group that used the "beat the dealer" stuff (Watch the movie) were very particular about who did what on the team.
So here a person is dialogging with a person who is using an existing dvantage. That advantage hs been explained.
So today I played a joke in ET.
Naturally, it has been very quiet since then.
People can be different than you are. Because you're disadvantaged, you do have the right to be incorrect about others who are not like you. It is a very lousy idea to try to be like someone who is not like you.
Finding DNA and finding how to "Beat the Dealer" were both thorough processes.
Today, we know tons and tons more about consciousness. there are moe than the brainwaves for the conscious part of the mind. In fact, the most active parts of the brain is NOT the conscious part. These two parts include the non conscious part and the transfer agent from the non conscious part to the conscious part.
I can see that flying the lottery ace out to my place would be neat, but all we would do is make money faster than blue turtle has thought up as yet......lol