Well yes, it wasn't the part that interested me about that paragraph, but if you want the whole thing...
> His research proved successful, netting him twenty thousand dollars, which he donated to the Free Software Foundation, an organization of like-minded believers in the Hacker Ethic. “Its [sic] not like I’m trying to make a living at [blackjack],” Carmack wrote online after his trip, “so the chance of getting kicked out doesn’t bother me too much.” It didn’t take long for him to find out just how he’d feel. On the next trip, Carmack was approached by three men in dark suits who said, “We’d appreciate if you’d play any other game than blackjack.”
> The others at the table watched in disbelief. “Why are they doing this to you?” a woman asked.
> “They think that I’m counting cards,” Carmack said.
> “They think you can remember all those different cards?”
> “Yeah,” Carmack replied, “something like that.”
> “Well, what do you do?”
> “I’m a computer programmer,” he said, as he was escorted out the door.
> His research proved successful, netting him twenty thousand dollars, which he donated to the Free Software Foundation, an organization of like-minded believers in the Hacker Ethic. “Its [sic] not like I’m trying to make a living at [blackjack],” Carmack wrote online after his trip, “so the chance of getting kicked out doesn’t bother me too much.” It didn’t take long for him to find out just how he’d feel. On the next trip, Carmack was approached by three men in dark suits who said, “We’d appreciate if you’d play any other game than blackjack.”
> The others at the table watched in disbelief. “Why are they doing this to you?” a woman asked.
> “They think that I’m counting cards,” Carmack said.
> “They think you can remember all those different cards?”
> “Yeah,” Carmack replied, “something like that.”
> “Well, what do you do?”
> “I’m a computer programmer,” he said, as he was escorted out the door.