Page II Greenfield Gamble: For Grade LOGICAL BLACKJACK BY DAVE HORWA‘TT S & B staff Writer in the final rush of last lemester when most students were writing two papers a night, Tom Greenfield, North Younker sophomore, was sit- ting in a dimly lit backmom playing blackjack. Greenfield was fulfilling an assignment in Logic (Phiios ophy 121). The professor of the course, John Worley, gave students the opportunity to do either an hourly, or a paper or proiect dealing with some facet of logic. Greenfield chose to give a dem- onstration of a winning strategy in the game of blackjack. Several years ago Greenfield read about Edward 0. Thorpe, a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, who with the aid of a computer, de- veloped a system of winning at blackjack using the casino rules at Las Vegas, Thorpe published a book in 1962—13er The Dealer which advanced several schemes for coming out ahead in betting on "twenty-one". The book was so successful that Las Vegas gambling houses made rule changes to try to compensate. Greenfield had trouble finding a copy of Thorpe's book, but finally got one mailed to him from a Chicago bookstore. He selected the ”count-ten” system for his demonstration. The game of Blackjack works like this: The dealer deals two card: to himself and to each of the other players. Usually the deal- er has one card showing and the other face down, or “in the hole." The player receives both cards down. Every card has a numerical value; face cards a value of ten; the Ace a value of one or eleven (at the player's discre- tion); and other cards have their face value. The object of the game for HAMMAN'S APPAREL Fashions for You EN D OF MONTH Clearance Sale Prices Slashed On COATS CAR COATS DRESSES BLOUSES SKIRTS SLACK SETS SWEATERS Come in to Hamman’s Often And Browse For Savings of 20% to 50% the pin or is to obtain a total from his cards that is greater than the dealer's, while not cite ceeding twenty—one—When he's “busted”. An Ace and a Card valued at ten give the player a “natural blackjack”. If the player is dealt a pair then he may play each card as a separate hand. Betting can vary from a 25s minimum to $150. The player is betting on what he thinks his advantage is against the dealer. Thorpe simply enumerate; methods for examining the hands of the player and dealer. Working with probabilities gives the player a strategy of betting that will bring him out ahead over a period of time—any< where from one to ten percent ahead. Essentially the ten count sys< tem has the player count the number of tens (there are SIX- tieen in a full deck,) and non- tens from cards shown. As the ratio of non-tens to tens decreases, the player's chance: increase. Thorpe used his ten count method in Nevada. Working with 510,000 capital loaned by two speculative millionaires Thorpe doubled the capital otter thirty hours of conservativt betting. Tom Greenfield used I verv rion oi the ten count strategy from .Bent The .Dealer.. He played a total of 346 hands us~ ing a minimum bet of 35 and a maximum of :25. Out of a hypo- thetical 52.340 bet. Greenfield won $240 or better than ten per- cent profit. However Greenfield only played about 15 hands with Worley, which were not enough to show the advantage of the player with the Thorpe system. in the half hour game Green- field came out a few dollars be- hind on the betting. Worley commented on Greeni field’s brief demonstration. “it’s like a high-jumper who learns to jump six feet. When he goes to show somebody he only jumps five feet and smacks his teeth on the bar.” Worley was pleased that a student did something creative with logic, and Tom Greenfield got an ”A" for his trouble. GLASSES Made and Repaired in Our Laboratory Contact Lenses Causes and Solutions Eyes Examined Phone 236-3971 E. J. Jensen, 0.0. OPTOMETRIST Across from Post Office cloud Thin-I. PM. and Slat. PM. SCARLET AND BLACK Pllom fly a .V. ncrnhardt TOM GREENFIELD (left), North Younker sophomore, deals the curds to Prof. John Worley in a demonstration or gambling with logic. The half-hour demonstration was Greenfield's final In logic. SUBPOENA ENVY By MARTIN JEZER LIEERATION News Service “There’s a d l s o a s 2 going around called ‘subpoena en< vy.’ Everyone has it."— Michael Ferber New YORK, N. 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