Jack Hitt
speaker
849 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Jul
Jack Hitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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To give you a sense of just how good,
At the height of their team in 2007, Ben and Colin were rotating as many as 30 trained blackjack players through their transcontinental circuit.
And remember, they would hand each member of the flock tens of thousands, sometimes as much as $80,000.
And because you can't transfer money like that through, say, an ATM, the players carried this cash in envelopes, stuffed in their pockets.
At the end of each trip, the members would return to Ben and Colin and report back their hours and winnings or losses.
This was all done on the honor system.
You can see why finding trustworthy, church-going collaborators was so important.
When the whole team achieved a certain goal, $100,000 in winnings, they'd split the profits.
And every quarter, Ben and Colin would host a team meeting at one of their houses in Seattle.
Here's Colin at the big meeting in 2008.
Did you catch that last part?
If you hate casinos.
Even after all the talk of it being a business and not gambling, there was still this nagging sense that what they were doing was somehow not part of the Christian mission.
They were bleeding the casinos of evil money, doing their part.
But occasionally some players began to feel there was something wrong with what they were doing.
Take Mike.
He had joined the team with the most Christian of all intentions.
He used to be a youth pastor.
His crisis of faith began with the Ninth Commandment.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
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