Andy Bloch

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This American Life · 466: Blackjack · 26 Apr 2026 podcast

And they didn't know a lot about it, but they knew that I bought a house with the winnings.

So there was all these kind of family members that had heard of the story, and I think, frankly, were just excited about the story.

And me and my business partner, Colin, we went to different churches.

So he had people from his church coming to him, and word was kind of spreading, and people were like, oh, I heard about this blackjack thing.

Are you guys hiring people?

And if it was the right person, we would never say no.

As a card counter, you go in there thinking there's no such thing as luck.

There's only math.

We're going to sit down and work for eight hours and make money.

And that's the exact opposite of what 99.9% of all people do in a casino do.

No, one of the biggest misconceptions ever, and this drives me nuts, is it's so fundamental, but people don't get it.

And I guess that's to the casino's credit, is people actually think that this is violating the rules of a casino.

But we follow every rule the casino has.

In fact, if you call up a casino and you ask them, is it against the law to count cards?

Is it against your rules to count cards?

They'll be like, oh, well, no, not really.

But it is kind of frowned upon.

So for those of you that hate casinos, we're doing our part.

High rollers are never mid-20 white kids.

Never.

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