Chapter 21

• Narrated by Black Hamilton
• Sports book. They were always my thing.
• I had talent in cards, a good eye to know when roulette would fail and at what point a novice idiot for the game would go wrong. But also regarding the times when it was appropriate to make him win so that he does not give up soon and encourages to increase his bet. Deducing each of his plays was a matter of tactics, what were the number series he voluntarily or involuntarily preferred and at what times it was appropriate to put a pinch of pressure with some flattery of the style " wow, you're good, no one had ever had me on the ropes so soon"; all part of my strategy to then corner him and take ten times more than I had wanted to bet at first.