Serial to come

Since I posted an entry in which I proclaimed "The guys who helped me set it (this blog) up have taken the training wheels off. Now that I know how to run the damn thing, I hope to update it more frequently," everything got a lot more complicated as readers told me I should include added features and learn this and that.
Okay, so I've got more features and I think the blog looks better than before, but I'm now eager to get back to making entries.

Toward that end, I should have some news from Pat in the coming days. In speaking with him, Pat told me that I should tell readers about the time I invented a casino table game, a variation on Baccarat. It is an amazing story about how I, a known yet-never-convicted professional cheater, was the subject of hearings before the Nevada Gaming Control Board. I got licensed by the Board and sponsored by a major casino to introduce the new game to the public. This aspect of my casino career, along with several others, was edited out of the book.

I have started going through my original manuscript and will be editing together that story. I imagine it will need to be broken up for multiple entries. I think I'll enter them in some sort of serial format, perhaps weekly ones mixed up among other entries.

I'll be talking to Bats tomorrow. He's usually good for some stories, at least an update about what he's been doing lately.

RSS feed

As per some valuable reader suggestions, I have posted an RSS feed

Hard Rock billboard update

The controversy I noted in an earlier post (The Billboard didn't make me do it), between The Hard Rock hotel-casino and the Nevada Gaming Commission, has been settled.
The Associated Press reports that The Hard Rock ended its battle over First Amendment freedoms and regulators ability to enforce standards of "decency, dignity, good taste, honesty and inoffensiveness." Admitting no wrong doing the casino paid a $100,000.00 fine.

I'd say the $100,000.00 fine was worth every penny in added publicity in news coverage of the debate.

They were some of the best billboards I ever saw, and no less "decent" than the hundreds of illegals handing out porn on the strip.

See the following one that was displayed while the Rodeo championship was in town:

REVIEWS

ASKED ABOUT REVIEWS OTHER THAN Michael Konik's, I THOUGHT IT WORTH POSTING A SAMPLING OF THEM:

"American Roulette provides the titillating thrill of being welcomed inside a forbidden world… Marcus and his gang of thieves have a brazen ingenuity, and enterprising criminal spirit that’s hard to resist. AMERICAN ROULETTE is as fun as it is revealing."
–Michael Konik, author of Telling Lies and Getting Paid and The Man with the $100,000 Breasts and other Gambling Stories


"Richard Marcus is that rarest of tour guides: a real insider who offers an unvarnished account of how he cheated casinos out of tidy little piles of money....a rare tell-all."
–Timothy L. O'Brien, author of Bad Bet: The Inside Story of the Glamour, Glitz, and Danger of America's Gambling Industry


"So much fun to read that this book deserves to be in two sections of every bookstore – Crime and Magic. One of the most original books on gambling and Las Vegas that I've ever read."
–Bert Randolph Sugar, author of The Caesar's Palace Sports Book of Betting


"It's a shame that Hollywood's Rat Pack is no more, because Marcus's account of his career cheating casinos (he is now retired-and not in a jail cell) would be the perfect vehicle for Old Blue Eyes, Dino, and the gang. It features high rollers, exotic locales, beautiful women, a detective obsessed with busting the protagonist, and tension in every move."
–Library Journal.


"A fun read but don't try these tricks on your next trip to Las Vegas.”
–Booklist


"American Roulette qualifies as a great book...a fascinating study in the hows and wherefores of casino cheating, as well as casino security...while Marcus is hardly a role model, his account is an interesting and often suspenseful glimpse into a world of which relatively few are aware. REOMMENDED”
–Bookreporter.com


"Marcus (never caught and now retired) is likable and creates suspense as he takes on casino after casino…Readers find vicarious thrills sharing the rush of risking thousands of dollars against years in a Nevada prison.”
–Publishers Weekly


"In this memoir, a grafter with a predator's understanding of human frailty recounts his true adventures swindling casinos the world over. Marcus's prose is so detail-rich it's as if you're fattening your pockets and running from the "steam" [i.e., angry casino muscle] right alongside him."
–Details Magazine


"American Roulette: Confessions Of A Cheat makes for fascinating reading. How Marcus and his team circumvented security measures and got away with their cheating make for some fascinating reading. This is a fascinating, well-detailed book. It should be read by anyone who thinks its easy to cheat, but might not realize how dangerous it is and the consequence if caught. Marcus survived, retired and has no regrets about his lifestyle. Few have been so lucky."
–CasinoCityTimes.com


"A fun read but don't try these tricks on your next trip to Las Vegas."
–Booklist


"While the dish that casinos serve may be illusory and never satisfying, American Roulette treats us to a feast where, for once, the tables have been turned."
–Las Vegas Mercury


"A great book…Marcus reveals entirely believable tales of how he swapped out chips and pulled all sorts of other scams against the Evil Empire"
–Detroit Free Press


"American Roulette informs the non-cheater of an interesting world of manipulative psychology that goes into conning dealers and planning heists"
–Las Vegas Weekly


"Fascinating Stuff" "All the ins and outs offered up" -- Alex Witt
"It's amazing, because they keep a very close eye on you when you walk up to those tables" --Sam Shanethe
–MSNBC, Right Now


"One of the most successful the game has ever seen… Reveals how he scammed over one million dollars without getting caught" planning heists"
–Entertainment Tonight, Featured on ET's "The Insider"