LAS VEGAS — I have two qualities Las Vegas wants nothing to do with. I am cheap, and I am not a big risk-taker. But I have one trait that might endear me to casino bosses: I am also a novice gambler.
As such, I probably had no right to walk up to a roulette wheel strutting like Sean Connery in Diamonds Are Forever. My confidence was secured because I had a strategy passed along by a friend, a gambling tactic that would keep me from losing big, I was assured.