A Player - 2004-01-20
As he closed his fifteen-minute stump speech on health care, Blair Hull, a first-time Democratic senatorial candidate from Illinois, said offhandedly to his audience of seniors, gathered in the town of Orland Hills for a Thanksgiving luncheon, "If elected, I will not take a salary or a pension."
He beat the odds—or, rather, beat the house by altering the odds in his favor—by designing intricate mathematical formulas that called for a skilled team of card counters to help choose when and how to bet in blackjack.
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