With the rules and technology today, it would take a very large team of players with an even larger bankroll to be successful enough to justify the time and effort. People have to eat and hotels cost money (only a few would ever get comped). There may be a few individuals or small groups making a living at it these days, but they are not making a good living at it.
I taught myself and practiced for years to count cards at Blackjack. I got pretty good. My wife and I had some fun with it. But that is just it, it's for fun. I kept track of winnings and losings in monthly trips to Reno. We only played < or = to $25 tables. I'd count and she'd jump bets or dive for us. We lost big on occasion and won big on occasion. But for the tiny edge you can eek out when the deck gets just right on some occasions, you have to be playing a lot of money and be playing a lot of hands to take advantage of a 1.5% to 3% advantage over the house.
If you are wealthy enough to start a career in card counting, you are wealthy enough to not need a career at all. All others are posers and pretenders.
Successful card counting rings are a myth these days. The casinos still don't like it but nobody gets “back roomed” for it.
What is “card counting”?
But even if Christians are card counters, there is nothing wrong with that. Card counting isn't cheating. It is merely a way to increase the odds in your favor while playing blackjack. Card counters can lose. They just have better odds than a blackjack player who can't count cards.
Acts 1:
So they nominated two men: Joseph called Barsabbas (also known as Justus) and Matthias. 24 Then they prayed, “Lord, you know everyone’s heart. Show us which of these two you have chosen 25 to take over this apostolic ministry, which Judas left to go where he belongs.” 26 Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles.
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Of course, the use of drawing lots was an effort to seek God’s will and this occurred before the Holy Spirit came and it was the last time the method is mentioned.
I still get steamed by the way for the longest
time VN veterans were portrayed as psychopathic
killers on TV shows.
The media anti-christian...who would have thought
I encourage you to watch the film or learn more about their true story before you make judgments and say that there was nothing Christian about the team or that the story is fictional.
www.HolyRollersTheMovie.com