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Geeking Grifting

and Gambling Through Las Vegas

Fifty Years of Exploits, Ideas, and

Tell All Stories From The Noted Poker Author

D AVID S KLANSKY

FIRST EDITION

FIRST PRINTING

Feb 2020

Printing and Binding

Creel Printing

Las Vegas, Nevada

Printed in the United States of America

Geeking, Grifting and Gambling Through Las Vegas

Fifty Years of Exploits, Ideas, and

Tell All Stories From The Noted Poker Author

No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system without the express permission in writing from the publisher.

David Sklansky is available for seminars and consulting. Email Dsklansky@aol.com

ISBN10: 1674933630

ISBN13: 9781674933634

David Sklansky Books

DUCY?
Getting The Best of It
Hold 'em Poker
Poker Gaming & Life: Expanded Edition
Sklansky on Poker
Sklansky Talks Blackjack
The Theory of Poker
The Theory of Poker Applied To No limit
Tournament Poker for Advanced Players: Expanded Edition
Gambling for a Living
by David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth
Hold 'em Poker for Advanced Players
by David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth
No-Limit Hold 'em: Theory and Practice
by David Sklansky and Ed Miller
Seven-Card Stud for Advanced Players
by David Sklansky, Mason Malmuth, and Ray Zee
Small Stakes Hold 'em: Winning Big with Expert Play
by Ed Miller, David Sklansky, and Mason Malmuth
Poker And More by David Sklansky and Mason Malmuth

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Dad

2. Two Irving Dinner Talks

3. Troubling Teens

4. College Etc. My Last Chance for Normalcy

5. First Encounter With Professional Bad Guys

6. On To Vegas

7. A Blackjack Proposition for "Mark"

8. Money Falls From the Sky

9. My First Casino (Unwitting) Giveaway

10. I'm Warned Off Crooked Poker Games

11. Blackjack Adventures

12. Not Hi Lo HOLD EM

13. Another Book And A Lesson

14. Two Good Horse Racing Situations

15. Developing Thoughts. Starting with Crime and Punishment

16. Barred and Bored

17. Math Ignorance Creates My No Risk Score

18. When Good Players Collude

19. Mafia Front Man's Surprising Reply

20. My Stupak Saga Begins

21. Thoughts. Part 2

22. 29 Million Lost. My Sad Story About Caribbean Stud

23. Three Bracelets. Sort Of

24. Two Small Feuds With Gambling/Math Experts

25. Two More Surprising Replies From Casino Big Shots

26. Some Early Ideas For Stupak

27. Jeff Yass: From Poker Pro To Billionaire

28. More Thoughts

29. More Ridiculous Casino Promotions And Mistakes

30. In The Middle of Larry Flynt's Alleged WSOP Attempted Fix

31. Mason Malmuth's Friendly Take Over

32. Three Creative (But Mean) Ideas For Bob

33. Second Wife. Second Gun Pointed At Me

34. Hi Stakes Dishonesty

35. Lyle Berman Enters The Picture

36. Six More Thoughts

37. Electing A Senator/Challenging A Future President

38. Four PhDs Who Actually Liked Me.

39. Jackie Gaughan Bets Bob Stupak a Million on Mayor's Race

40. Lyle Berman Creates Sklansky Games

41. Ideas That could Be Wrong

42. A Few More Stupak Stories

43. Harvard Doctors Arrogantly Excuse Their Math/Logic Ignorance.

44. Some Investing/Betting Concepts

45. Some Interesting Short Stories

46. National Gaming Impact Commission

47. The "Vacation Club" Morphs Into A Pyramid Scheme

48. A Trip To Russia Gives Us Ideas

49. Soak The Rich. Where They Park

50. Four More Short Stories.

51. The Stratosphere Tower

52. Two Nice Casino/Sportsbook Ideas That Interested Icahn

53. Carl Icahn And Steve Wynn Show Me Their 7th Grade Side

54. Internet Poker Explodes

55. Cliff Notes on My Two "Scandals"

56. Several More General Ideas

57. Experiencing A Home Invasion

58. My Best Idea

59. Some Free Ideas For Casinos And Internet Sites

60. Some Outside The Box Probability Ingenuity

61. Bob Stupak's Astonishing "Revelation"

62. What's Next

An Unexpected Ending

Introduction

This book is not an autobiography. I am not famous enough for one and much of my life is not that interesting. But some of it is. More importantly many of the stories that I will be telling you (in approximate chronological order) will not only be interesting (and sometimes juicy tell all stuff) but will often contain a lesson that might be useful to you. Or even to the world in general. Some chapters will not be biographical at all but rather simply explanations of numerous ideas that I have come up with over the years (some no doubt thought of by others as well.)

Who am I to think that I have dozens of thoughts that are both useful and often unique? Its a fluke. I had a father who was probably one of the smartest men in the world (Ill provide some evidence in the first chapter) who literally gave me a different logic puzzle or high school math lesson virtually every day, from age seven to twelve. And I had a father who had a son with three major flaws that made me veer very far from the path he hoped Id take with my life.

Those flaws were a boredom phobia, a hatred of doing things I didnt want to (eg wearing a tie or studying something uninteresting), and an inability to deal with physical discomfort, especially lack of sleep.

Given the above, it should not be surprising that when I realized that good money could be made from poker and other forms of gambling, I made my way to Las Vegas and became the black sheep of the family. (A family otherwise filled with Harvard graduates, authors and professors. See Jack Sklansky, Amy Sklansky, David A. Sklansky, Eddie Miller, Montana Miller, and several others.)

But this unusual history turned me into an unusual man. A high IQ guy who was taught math and logic at a very early age who, as a teenager, stopped thinking about academics but instead thought about scheming my way through the jungles of Las Vegas. The peculiar result, I believe, is a person who has the ability to come up with ideas that can be applied to you and/or the real world. Ideas that I hope will have you saying, Aha, of course. Why didnt I think of that?

NOTE: I expect the dates and incidents mentioned will occasionally be slightly inaccurate. However, those inaccuracies will never be of a relevant nature.

Chapter One: Dad

Sometime in 1950, my mother told my father (Irving Sklansky) he had to get a real job. He had a two-year-old son, a chance to make $100 a week working for a union pension fund, and was facing, as far as she was concerned, too much responsibility to accept the (temporarily) lower paying offer to teach math and logic at Harvard. His desire to do the right thing and please his wife, caused him to make a decision that he would always regret. Because he was born to teach. In going over his papers after he died, I found much evidence of his talents including, going all the way back to 1938 when he was fourteen years old, when his high school (where he had skipped two grades) wrote his aptitude in performing and explaining the subject matter (math) is astounding and inspiring.

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