Posted by Lawrence Cohen | Jun 23, 2025 | Columns, Lawrence Cohen |
The Spotted Ball, a True Story by Larry Cohen c 2025 Chapter 9 “Nobody keeps their winnings” On the way to dinner one Saturday evening at “The Chin Chin” , a local, nearby Chinese Restaurant, a classmate and friend of mine asked...
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The Spotted Ball, A True Story by Larry Cohen c 2025 Chapter 8 “A real Sad Sack” My classmates at the time were less adventurous than I or they were better students, or, maybe, both. If I ever lost more than the equivalent of...
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The Spotted Ball, a True Story by Larry Cohen c 2025 Chapter 7 “Those are my chips!” It was the Roulette Wheel that held the only way I could see, or even understand, a way to gamble with any degree of success. I noticed that...
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The Spotted Ball, a True Story by Larry Cohen c 2025 “Heads I win, tails you lose” Despite the smoke and the arrogant staff, I managed to visit the Embajador Casino on the weekends. Although, as I mentioned earlier,...
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The Spotted Ball, A True Story by Larry Cohen c 2025 Chapter 5 “Joey’s group” The Casino in the Embajador Hotel, for me, had a few problems. The first big problem was the smoke. Cigarette smoke. If one were to enter the...
Read MorePosted by Lawrence Cohen | Jun 12, 2025 | Columns, Lawrence Cohen |
The Spotted Ball, a True Story by Larry Cohen c 2025 A break in the story: So far, I have had some wonderful feedback on my true story, “The Spotted Ball” since I began putting it all down on paper. For example, I was informed...
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The Spotted Ball a True Story by Larry Cohen c 2025 Chapter 4 “Enough of Philadelphia” As a small-town kid, I didn’t last long in Philadelphia. I had my wallet stolen from my sports jacket right in my own office. A credit card...
Read MorePosted by Lawrence Cohen | Jun 9, 2025 | Columns, Lawrence Cohen |
A True Story by Larry Cohen c 2025 Chapter 3 “3’s and 6’s” I did play the three number game for a while but without any success. A winning number from 1000 numbers is a pretty hard task. But, it was legal and I didn’t have to...
Read MorePosted by Lawrence Cohen | Jun 6, 2025 | Columns, Lawrence Cohen |
Chapter 2 from “The Spotted Ball”, a true story by Larry Cohen c 2025 My knowledge of gambling at this point, as any reader can tell, was quite limited. I do remember a neighbor of ours, an older woman, a Mrs. Brennan, who went...
Read MorePosted by Lawrence Cohen | Jun 4, 2025 | Columns, Lawrence Cohen, Newsletter |
By Larry Cohen c. 2025 Chapter One “It was not hard to do” It was not hard to do. As a semi-precocious ten-year old during the 1950’s, I was a regular at Howard’s Variety store located in my small city in Central New York State...
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