Les Golden

Les Golden is an American gambling writer who writes extensively on various casino games. He became aware of card counting systems for blackjack by reading the 1966 revised edition of Beat the Dealer. As a graduate student in astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, Golden made monthly trips to Reno, Nevada and played blackjack using Thorp’s systems.
Background
Leslie Morris Golden (Eliezer Moshe ben Reuven Motl y Chanah Kaileh, Lazar Masche) was born in Chicago, an identical twin, the son of Anne K. (née Eisenberg; March 7, 1909 - November 19, 1999), a legal stenographer and homemaker, and Irving R. Golden (March 15, 1907 - June 22, 2005), an attorney and co-owner with his father Max Goldstein, an immigrant finish carpenter from Belarus, Russia, of a store fixture and bar manufacturing firm, and raised in Oak Park, Illinois, where he attended Horace Mann grammar school and Oak Park-River Forest High School. He graduated from Cornell University
He has published several refereed articles on applications of probability and statistics to astronomy, and has taught probability and statistics in the Heller Graduate School of Business at Roosevelt University in Chicago in addition to teaching astronomy as a member of the physics department at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
In 1996, he ran as a Republican Party candidate for the United States Congress and lost in the predominately Democratic Illinois's 7th congressional district, using his "Cut the Taxes" nickname.
Gambling Writings
Writings
Golden has written for Gambling.com, Gambling Online, iGaming Business, and Bluff Europe magazines, and as a newspaper columnist as a casino advocate. Golden was introduced to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence at Cornell University by his mentor Frank Drake and it is one of his research and public lecture areas as an astronomer.

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