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Too damn old spend most of my non-playing time going to funerals and hospitals visiting old mates.

Started playing in 1955 so have now been playing for 58 years.

When I started they still gave you half your money back from a bet on the even chances if zero came up!

The John Huxley wheels had very high curved frets which often worked loose.

I have record cards showing that #32 followed #0 11 times in 13 shows nicely profitable before they took it off to a cruise ship in the Caribbean.

I also have a record card showing 21 reds in 22 spins and the other one was a zero. And just yesterday afternoon we had 17 blacks in succession. On both occasions there was a broken man betting against the wheel. The first one was a local fisherman who lost $11,000 which was a lot of money from fishing 40 years ago. Yesterday it was a football player who had his end of season trip wrecked by NOT FOLLOWING THE WHEEL.

Some of the fun times were playing at totally illegal Casino’s in Kings Cross Sydney and in Cavill Avenue on the Gold Coast run by the local crime gangs. The Queensland one was upstairs and very comfortable I believe the Bellino family ran it? I would not have like to attempt using a FFZ in any of those or in any Las Vegas establishment.

In the Philippine Casino’s they have a Cloak Room where you must check your guns before playing and airport style metal detectors and security as you come into the gaming rooms.

The High Roller room at the Genting Highlands Casino in Malaysia used to see really big betting. A Taiwanese blackjack player told me he was a million up for the night but his friend told me he was 23 million down for the month.

I remember watching Kerry Packer the original Australian whale playing BJ in Hobart where he was playing all seven hands on the table for $5,000 each and splitting and doubling down as necessary when the young female croupier Mandy who was a friend of my daughters drew a blackjack and busted him so he picked up the table and tipped it on top of her. The Union later forced him to apologise to her but she was in tears at the time.

Aaaahhh memories don’t you love them?

Keep winning

Mike.

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On one of my trips to Las Vegas I caught a cab from the Gamblers Bookshop up to the MGM Grand, (before the fire), The cabbie said, “Are you an Aussie?”" when I said yes he said “Do you know my mate Kerry?” Turned out that when the Packers were in town they always used this cabbie. He told me the MGM Grand built Kerry a $10 million Penthouse complete with 25 yard pool and Kerry used to bring young James there to teach him about life. The Cabbie said many times he would ferry girls up to the apartment and pick them up in the mornings all spruiking about their tips. The Cabbie said the Packers and friends were great tippers so I apologised for disappointing him in advance, my $10 tip on top of a $5 fare was well worth the stories he told though.

On one of my trips up to the Genting Highlands Casino in Malaysia I hired a lovely white Limo at the airport to go up the mountain and next day after a series of losses I caught a beat up old cab back down which had an Indian driver, a timber plank with a rug over it for a back seat and we had to keep stopping on the handbrake because no matter how much ne pumped the brake pedal the fade made them useless.

There was an old hi-fret wheel at the Vanuatu Casino just a few years ago that was so tilted and worn it was impossible to lose.

The VIP room at the Noumea Casino is a very comfortable boutique sized Casino but the French Supervisors frown on winners.

In Australia most of the Casino’s will ban “undesirables” under Govt legislation and when pressed to define the word they insist that a winner is an undesirable. That’s why David Walsh of MONA fame and Zeljko Ranogajec the worlds biggest punter are no longer admitted to Tasmanian Casino’s. They are considered undesirables despite the fact that David Walsh has spent around $150 million of his Gambling winnings on MONA almost single handledly saving the Tasmanian economy.

Some of the more entertaining players in Tas Casino’s have been Frank Sedgman the Tennis Player and Malcolm Johnston the Jockey. Both are not long term winners and Malcolm was a wheel chaser not a follower.

My favourite place is still Macau even though I rate the LV Downtown laser light show the most spectacular and entertaining, those tall Chinese working girls and the big big Baccarat bettors in Macau together with the most beautiful buildings come out on top.

My first trip into the Bellagio in LV after opening was with five young Aussie mates on our way home from a study tour of North Carolina and I was telling them about my RWD strategy and of course the accountant, the schoolteacher, the engineer and the other two were Oh Yeah! Anyway there was one number up three times on the board so even though not technically a qualifier I proceeded to reach in over the crowd at the table and plonked a big bet straight up on it for the 4th show and whoopee - up it came first bet! They have had a little more respect for me in the 33 years ever since.

Some time after that my wife and I were touring Eurpoe and the UK - she was visiting churches and I was visiting Casino’s. My very first bet in Monaco Casino was again a RWD semi-qualifier but this time three shows on the board were from the previous day and guess what? Again up it came on my very first bet, the very first spin of the day, its no wonder I am such a fan of RWD.

Keep winning

Mike.

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Guay! :o 8)

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Super! Rwd roks ;D… lv got his book for 1 pound :D… delivery was more expensive :stuck_out_tongue:

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;D “she was visiting churches and I was visiting casinos”

Well you know what they say… More people pray in the casino than in church!!!

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