title: Cheating at Blackjack: Inside the Mindset and Methods of the Game's Most Successful Cheaters
author: Dustin D. Marks
description: <div><B>Dustin Marks</B> is, without question, one the most successful blackjack cheaters in history. Possessing an uncanny ability to remain calm under pressure and the talent to perform undetectable sleight of hand, he was employed as a blackjack dealer by several well-known casinos in Las Vegas during the 1980s. While under the watchful eye of the ostensibly fool-proof surveillance systems, he painstakingly perfected his craft and WAS NEVER CAUGHT! The plying of his talents was not limited to Las Vegas, he also played in casinos throughout Nevada. He lives in Las Vegas.<BR></div>
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  SOUTH DAKOTA  
  _June 1989_
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
  Cooper Sullivan’s life, as he’d known it, was over. Judge and jury—in the form
  of his parents—had not been swayed by pleas, reason, temper, threats, but
  instead had sentenced him and shipped him off, away from everything he knew
  and cared about to a world without video parlors or Big Macs.
  
  The only thing that kept him from _completely_ dying of boredom, or just going
  wacko, was his prized Game Boy.
  
  As far as he could see, it would be him and Tetris for the duration of his
  prison term—two horrible, stupid months—in the Wild freaking West. He knew
  damn well the game, which his father had gotten pretty much right off the
  assembly line in Tokyo, was a kind of bribe.
  
  Coop was eleven, and nobody’s fool.
  
  Practically nobody in the whole U.S. of A. had the game, and that was
  definitely cool. But what was the point in having something everybody else
  wanted if you couldn’t show it off to your friends?
  
  This way, you were just Clar