Jeffrey Trauman, the professional online sports nama situs judi slot online gambler who got busted after he reported his winnings to the IRS (see previous entry), pleaded guilty last week. He was just given a $500 fine with a one-year deferred sentence.
as bad as it gets
Mark Morford claims that he has found his own little hell, and it's a bingo room in Reno. Very odd, dark, funny article.
This room, this mind-set, it is devoid of sunlight or beauty or nuanced thought, a breeding ground of catatonia and intellectual anesthesia and careening obesity and a weird sense of hopelessness, of defeat, and you want to shrug it all off and let it be and remember that just because it's not your thing doesn't mean it's necessarily evil or malevolent or karmically debilitating. But you can't. It just won't let you.
stu ungar movie exposure increasing
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Apparently the word is starting to get out about the film Stuey. This just in from the StueyMovie mailing list:
From: AWV <awvprod@bellsouth.net>
Subject: STUEY WEBSITE GOES CRAZY, SCREENING AT DGA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Perhaps it's the mini-documentary on Stu Ungar that's been running on ESPN, Card Player's feature articles on the film, the favorable reviews, sold-out festival screenings, or a combination of them all, but the hits on the STUEY website (www.stueymovie.com) have jumped to over 10,000 A DAY, recently causing the server to crash -- TWICE. "We can't answer all the emails fast enough," said writer/director A.W. Vidmer. "It's incredibly exciting." The STUEYMOVIE Yahoo group now boasts 76 members as well.
STUEY has also been invited to screen for distributors and DGA members at the Film Finders series at the Director's Guild of America on October 3rd, following screenings at the Boston and San Diego Film Festivals.
card counters' days numbered?
Wired has an article about a new very high-tech card-counter-detection system that should send a chill down the spine of every aspiring card counter.
MindPlay works by placing a set of 14 digital cameras around a specially built blackjack table tray. The optical equipment registers every card in play by reading special invisible ink printed on them.
But that isn't the only trick up MindPlay's sleeve. It can recognize the differences between a player's drink, a napkin, an ashtray, a stack of chips being held by a player and a pile of chips in play, Soltys said. And it tracks the location and value of chips by comparing 3-D models of them in a database to all objects on the table.
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