The Wiz gets an award.

This coming March at the Global Table Games & Game Protection Conference, Michael Schackleford will be awarded the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence and Services to the Table Games Industry.

Congrats and Mazel Tov Mike!

LinkedIn announcement:

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This coming March at the Global Table Games & Game Protection Conference, Michael Schackleford will be awarded the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence and Services to the Table Games Industry.

Congrats and Mazel Tov Mike!

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Congratulations! But just a reminder…. Only old people get lifetime achievement awards!

Is there a formal presentation that accompanies this award? I’ll bet a bunch of forum members would attend. (The AP’s would come in disguise, of course…..)

That is awesome. The Wizard deserves many accolades.

Very cool. Congratulations on the recognition for all your work.

Congratulations, Mike! Well deserved.

Super cool! Congratulations!

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This coming March at the Global Table Games & Game Protection Conference, Michael Schackleford will be awarded the 2024 Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence and Services to the Table Games Industry.

Congrats and Mazel Tov Mike!

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When I first saw this picture I thought it was a Native American behind the table. It's the hair and the facial expression and the sing around his neck. I actually did a double take. LOL

March isn't a bad month to go to Vegas; I think I will try to make it out there to see Wizard accept this well-deserved award.

Congrats !!!

Thanks everyone!

I cut my hair in May, so look normal again. This is a private conference, so unless you pay for the whole thing, it's not open to the public. However, I can probably sneak a couple people in, if any forum members are in town.

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Congratulations! But just a reminder…. Only old people get lifetime achievement awards!

This got me curious so I googled some "young" lifetime achievement award winners.

Tom Hanks got an AFI Life Achievement Award at 46.

CEO Angel Rich-Jones won a Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award at 36.

Selena won a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at the age of 23, but it was posthumous and she had been dead for over 25 years. Technically counts as a win, though!

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Thanks everyone!

I cut my hair in May, so look normal again. This is a private conference, so unless you pay for the whole thing, it's not open to the public. However, I can probably sneak a couple people in, if any forum members are in town.
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I can attend as your personal physician.

I’ve been involved in these for years at my Anesthesia yearly conference. The honoree usually has a bunch of family members present.

I can attend as your brother as well.

Deserved, however accepting an award bestowed by a lifelong grifting scumbag has to be a difficult choice one would think.

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Deserved, however accepting an award bestowed by a lifelong grifting scumbag has to be a difficult choice one would think.
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What are you talking about.

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I can attend as your personal physician. I can attend as your brother as well.

You'll need your attorney.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbtpBTfCR70

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Deserved, however accepting an award bestowed by a lifelong grifting scumbag has to be a difficult choice one would think.
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What are you talking about.
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Who, not what. The founder of the conference presenting the award.

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Deserved, however accepting an award bestowed by a lifelong grifting scumbag has to be a difficult choice one would think.
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What are you talking about.
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Richard Marcus is a well-known self-proclaimed #1 casino cheat in the world who is said to have invented the Savannah move. The move was quick easy and effective.

It's surprising you didn't know this his name is synonymous with roulette including but not limited to being the author of American Roulette.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT7VK483xXo&t=203s

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Deserved, however accepting an award bestowed by a lifelong grifting scumbag has to be a difficult choice one would think.
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What are you talking about.
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Richard Marcus is a well-known self-proclaimed #1 casino cheat in the world who is said to have invented the Savannah move. The move was quick easy and effective.

It's surprising you didn't know this his name is synonymous with roulette including but not limited to being the author of American Roulette.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT7VK483xXo&t=203s
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I know who Richard Marcus is, I read his book at least twice. When I said what are you talking about I was referring to calling him a grifting scumbag. Richard Marcus is not a grifting scumbag. The only reason he got away with his moves was there was no cameras in those days. Today he would last for about 5 minutes.

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Deserved, however accepting an award bestowed by a lifelong grifting scumbag has to be a difficult choice one would think.
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What are you talking about.
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Richard Marcus is a well-known self-proclaimed #1 casino cheat in the world who is said to have invented the Savannah move. The move was quick easy and effective.

It's surprising you didn't know this his name is synonymous with roulette including but not limited to being the author of American Roulette.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT7VK483xXo&t=203s
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I know who Richard Marcus is, I read his book at least twice. When I said what are you talking about I was referring to calling him a grifting scumbag. Richard Marcus is not a grifting scumbag. The only reason he got away with his moves was there was no cameras in those days. Today he would last for about 5 minutes.
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I wouldn’t agree that he’s a grifter, but I could understand someone calling him a scumbag.

I did an article on him several years ago, but it appears something happened to the page as the better part of the article is missing. I’ll have to check my Google Docs to see if I still have it, but I seriously doubt if I do.

Anyway, he got his start as a dealer at the El Cortez, wherein he was approached by some nefarious types about false shuffling (while on duty) to the benefit of confederates. Essentially, he engaged in a premeditated plan to steal money from his employer.

After that, he would develop methods for cheating at games such as Craps and Roulette, perhaps the most well-known of which is his, “Savannah Move.”

Marcus would justify these things by as much as saying that the casino industry is evil and predatory. Of course, those words ring a bit hollow, given that he had no problem accepting the industry’s money in exchange for teaching it how to prevent other people from bilking it exactly as he did, or similar.

In short, this is hypocrisy of absolutely the highest order. Therefore, I think, ‘Scumbag,’ is defensible.

Me? I’m not going to shed any tears for the casinos he stole from, but at the same time, I see a legitimate difference between an actual advantage player (beating the games/promotions without blatantly cheating) and Richard Marcus, who committed outright theft, including against his own employer.

Of course, the schedule is the schedule. If Wizard is being presented a well-deserved award, why should he object to the person giving it to him? I can’t imagine he has a ton of say in the matter anyway.

In any event, I think it’s fair to say that Richard Marcus used to be a thief (by his own admission) and could fairly be argued to have behaved hypocritically (working for casinos to prevent the very actions he tried to justify), but I’m unsure that grifter is ever an apt description. Maybe there’s something I missed.

“Scumbag,” that’s an optional word. Either way, I don’t know that he’s a scumbag now. I certainly don’t have any interest in spending any great amount of time with him to find out.

Of course, also being capable of hypocrisy, I probably wouldn’t refuse if he wanted me to interview him.

Congratulation.

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Deserved, however accepting an award bestowed by a lifelong grifting scumbag has to be a difficult choice one would think.
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What are you talking about.
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Richard Marcus is a well-known self-proclaimed #1 casino cheat in the world who is said to have invented the Savannah move. The move was quick easy and effective.

It's surprising you didn't know this his name is synonymous with roulette including but not limited to being the author of American Roulette.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT7VK483xXo&t=203s
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I know who Richard Marcus is, I read his book at least twice. When I said what are you talking about I was referring to calling him a grifting scumbag. Richard Marcus is not a grifting scumbag. The only reason he got away with his moves was there was no cameras in those days. Today he would last for about 5 minutes.
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Then mcallister3200's post should have been very obvious.

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Deserved, however accepting an award bestowed by a lifelong grifting scumbag has to be a difficult choice one would think.
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What are you talking about.
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Richard Marcus is a well-known self-proclaimed #1 casino cheat in the world who is said to have invented the Savannah move. The move was quick easy and effective.

It's surprising you didn't know this his name is synonymous with roulette including but not limited to being the author of American Roulette.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT7VK483xXo&t=203s
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I know who Richard Marcus is, I read his book at least twice. When I said what are you talking about I was referring to calling him a grifting scumbag. Richard Marcus is not a grifting scumbag. The only reason he got away with his moves was there was no cameras in those days. Today he would last for about 5 minutes.
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Then mcallister3200's post should have been very obvious.
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I guess EB only thinks someone is a grifting scumbag if they get caught.

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I guess EB only thinks someone is a grifting scumbag if they get caught.
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Not to tip what I believe to be his...eh...'tactics' isn't exactly the right word...but it's a close word.

Anyway, EB has been here for a long-time. I wouldn't call it an MO, but I have seen EB occasionally take positions that I don't think he actually believes, or that are very difficult to defend, just for the purpose of engagement. That's just my observation and could be inaccurate. On the other hand, has he ever specifically referred to AP's, or (unlike AP's) other people specifically stealing/trying to steal (from casinos) as scumbags? If not, then perhaps...while he wouldn't commit crimes himself...EB thinks anything is kosher as far as casinos are concerned.

I do think it's an odd take that Marcus getting away with it (due to poor surveillance), by implication of being in the same post, is in any way relevant to whether or not Marcus is, or was, a scumbag.

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Deserved, however accepting an award bestowed by a lifelong grifting scumbag has to be a difficult choice one would think.
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What are you talking about.
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Richard Marcus is a well-known self-proclaimed #1 casino cheat in the world who is said to have invented the Savannah move. The move was quick easy and effective.

It's surprising you didn't know this his name is synonymous with roulette including but not limited to being the author of American Roulette.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mT7VK483xXo&t=203s
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I know who Richard Marcus is, I read his book at least twice. When I said what are you talking about I was referring to calling him a grifting scumbag. Richard Marcus is not a grifting scumbag. The only reason he got away with his moves was there was no cameras in those days. Today he would last for about 5 minutes.
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Then mcallister3200's post should have been very obvious.
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I guess EB only thinks someone is a grifting scumbag if they get caught.
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To be clear, I'm not agreeing with or in disagreement with calling the guy a grifting scumbag, I was just pointing out that it was obvious as to what and why mcallister was saying.

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I guess EB only thinks someone is a grifting scumbag if they get caught.
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Not to tip what I believe to be his...eh...'tactics' isn't exactly the right word...but it's a close word.

Anyway, EB has been here for a long-time. I wouldn't call it an MO, but I have seen EB occasionally take positions that I don't think he actually believes, or that are very difficult to defend, just for the purpose of engagement. That's just my observation and could be inaccurate. On the other hand, has he ever specifically referred to AP's, or (unlike AP's) other people specifically stealing/trying to steal (from casinos) as scumbags? If not, then perhaps...while he wouldn't commit crimes himself...EB thinks anything is kosher as far as casinos are concerned.

I do think it's an odd take that Marcus getting away with it (due to poor surveillance), by implication of being in the same post, is in any way relevant to whether or not Marcus is, or was, a scumbag.
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EB tried shaming me for using liberal return policies at big box stores. Meanwhile, he admitted to wanting to engage in a similar type of scheme.

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Black Friday is a good day to get some of the streaming services really cheap last year I got Hulu, peacock and one other one for 99 cents a month for an entire year. I want to see what I can get this year. I think if I use a different email address and a different credit card they won't know that I already did it last year.
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Go to the misc. thread for Richard Marcus talk so we don't hijack this thread any further.

Just to show that I do indeed know very well who Richard Marcus is here's a copy of his book from my shelf and I put a note in front of it to show that it's mine. I've read it at least twice and now that I'm thinking about it I might read it again. I like the casino game involved..

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Just to show that I do indeed know very well who Richard Marcus is here's a copy of his book from my shelf and I put a note in front of it to show that it's mine. I've read it at least twice and now that I'm thinking about it I might read it again. I like the casino game involved..


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I'm not interested in learning how to cheat casinos.


Why and how has that book helped you?

awesome news! huge congrats to Mike on snagging the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Global Table Games & Game Protection Conference. Mazel Tov, indeed! Well-deserved recognition for his excellence and contributions to the Table Games Industry.

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Just to show that I do indeed know very well who Richard Marcus is here's a copy of his book from my shelf and I put a note in front of it to show that it's mine. I've read it at least twice and now that I'm thinking about it I might read it again. I like the casino game involved..


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I'm not interested in learning how to cheat casinos.


Why and how has that book helped you?
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Very entertaining, the guy's a good writer.

Thank you for posting the pictures!

I plan to announce the winners as soon as I get the pictures from another source.

Congratulations on your Lifetime Achievement Award, Wizard! 😀

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Congratulations on your Lifetime Achievement Award, Wizard! 😀
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Thank you Karen!

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Congratulations on your Lifetime Achievement Award, Wizard! 😀
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Thank you Karen!

Congratulation.

Nice! Congrats!

Posted today on LinkedIn:

Is "Shack" an approved nickname???

Thanks Dave for sharing that! I wouldn't have otherwise seen it.