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程阳：澳州数学家职业赌帮如何逢赌必赢？
Secret wealthy gamblers club is going to war
Google: gamblers club mathematical geniuses David
Walsh Shelley Wilson
Google: University of Tasmania gamblers ATO 2.4 billion
Google: gamblers club mathematical geniuses David Walsh Shelley Wilson
Google: University of Tasmania gamblers ATO 2.4 billion
赌博究其本质就是一个概率问题，俗话说“十赌九输”正是诠释了概率是不可战胜的。有没有能战胜概率而“十赌九赢”的神人呢？传说中有。澳洲19名天才数学家（其中包括香港人David Steicke）正是藉此，在赛马和赌桌上赢取了24亿元的巨额财富。不过，树大招风。这19位天才级的专业赌手由于在赌场上的屡战屡胜而引起了税务局（ATO）的注意。经调查后，ATO指这个门萨赌徒俱乐部逃税9亿，目前，其中的3人已经收到税单。
这个赌徒俱乐部（punters' club）由19名年龄在47至50岁间的天才数学家构成，包括以香港为基地的南澳洲扑克高手，49岁的David Steicke、以及3名塔州职业赌客David Walsh、Shelley Wilson、George Mamacas以及Zeljko Ranogajec。
这19名数学家中的大部分人，多年前在塔斯马尼亚大学修读数学专业时就已认识，此后就成了“死党”。2004年，这19名数学家组成了一个“门萨”赌博团，利用他们在数学的专长，在世界各国的赌场上开始了捞金之旅。塔斯马尼亚大学（University of Tasmania)于1890年成立，2009年成为澳大利亚五星级大学，是澳大利亚历史最悠久、最具国际声誉的四所大学之一，校园位于塔斯马尼亚州南部的霍巴特和北部的郎塞。塔斯马尼亚是澳大利亚的岛省，离澳大利亚本土240公里。
虽然他们所掌握的那些知识在现实生活中派不上多大用场，但在赌场上却显现出了巨大威力！据悉，这些人多参与赛马、赛狗以及21点之类的赌博项目。每次下注前，他们都会利用自己的专业知识对各种中奖的概率进行推理演算，从而做到每赌必赢。
据悉，从2004年到2006年期间，他们每年投注额达20亿元，而在短短3年时间里，堪称“十赌九赢”的他们竟总计赢取了超过24亿澳元！这些巨额财富除了支撑他们的奢华生活外，也被投资于兴建私人艺术馆、私人保龄球场。
ATO指出，由于“赌徒俱乐部”的赌博行为带有专业性质，因此不适用澳洲法律的“赌博收入免税”条款。法庭文件显示，ATO对“赌徒俱乐部”的14名成员查帐后发现，该集团多年来一直通过各种复杂的手法逃税。此外，他们还故意销毁赌博纪录，或者运用计算机加密软件，让司法机构难以起诉他们。
据悉，目前“赌徒俱乐部”中的Walsh、Mamacas、Ranogajec正在接受调查，并已收到了巨额税单。尽管3人均称他们并无任何隐瞒收入、偷税行为，但澳洲税务局已分别向法院对这3人提起诉讼，并要求他们必须补缴9亿元税款。据悉，如果税务局胜诉，将首开澳洲向“专业赌客”征税的先例。
Google: gamblers club mathematical geniuses David
Walsh Shelley Wilson
Google: University of Tasmania gamblers ATO 2.4
billion
Secret wealthy gamblers club is going to war
The Daily Telegraph July 07,
2012 12:00 AM
澳大利亚《每日电讯报》（英文原名：The Daily Telegraph，简称为The Tele，注意英国有同名报纸！）是一份澳大利亚的小开型报纸，由新闻集团拥有，主要在澳洲悉尼与新南威尔士州发行。每日电讯创办于1879年，一直在悉尼出版，直至1990年收购同是新闻集团旗下的姊妹晚报——每日镜报，并易名每日电讯镜报（The Daily Telegraph-Mirror），但出版模式仍是分成早报与晚报，后来才取消晚报的发行。
THEY are the mathematical geniuses who have beaten the odds at the world's racetracks and poker tables, accumulating tens of millions of dollars that fund lavish lifestyles.
Part of the mysterious punters' club fortunes have been spent on personal art museums and sushi bars and bowling alleys for their palatial homes.
The Daily Telegraph can lift the lid on the secretive group, identifying all 19 members who collectively make a reported $50 million in profits from $2 billion in bets annually.
The success of the punters' club has come to the attention of the Australian Tax Office which claims the professional nature of the group's activities means the usual rule that gambling winnings are tax-exempt do not apply. The ATO claims the club is liable for $900 million in unpaid tax.
If the ATO is successful the case could set a precedent for professional gamblers deemed to have a business-like approach to betting.
Three punters' club members are fighting the claim.
The first sign the group were arming for a battle against the ATO came early last month when Tasmanian gambler David Walsh quietly contested his $37 million tax bill in the Federal Court after he was slapped with a revised assessment for 2004, 2005 and 2006.
Next, a lesser known member, Tasmanian poker player and businessman George Mamacas followed suit, and then most recently on, June 29, the king of the punters club, another former Tasmanian, Zeljko Ranogajec, put his head above the parapet.
Most of the original members, aged 47 to 50, met while studying mathematics at the University of Tasmania.
Court documents list all 19 members and the fact 14 of them have been audited by the ATO - mostly for income in 2006 when the club had an astonishing annual turnover of more than $2.4 billion.
Almost all of the members are relative unknowns. Those with some profile include 47-year-old Eddie Malovnek, who lives in Bellerive, Tasmania, and works in video and audio production; reclusive Gold Coast investor and mathematician Duncan Turpie, who bankrolls online political journal newmatilda.com; Phillip Turner, a professional gambler from Sandy Bay, Tasmania; David Steicke, 49, from South Australia, a Hong Kong-based poker pro, and Ray Gatt, 50, owner of Eden Springs Winery in the Eden Valley.
It's not certain whether or not they also intend to dispute the assessments
Mr Ranogajec has the most to win - or lose - as he is believed to hold the largest stake in the punters' club.
He insists he has nothing to hide. He has been audited, and cleared, twice in the past 20 years and has handed over 45 folders of documents of his gambling records.
On September 16, 2005, after he went to the ATO's Centrepoint Tower offices in Sydney for a formal meeting, he gave the tax officials a tour of his Mosman house and demonstrated how he gambled using pay TV horse racing channels on Foxtel and Betfair.
Between 2004 and 2006 the club bet mostly on horse, harness and greyhound racing but also on pokies, Keno, blackjack and video poker.
It has been reported Mr Ranogajec won a world-record $7.5 million Keno jackpot at North Ryde RSL in 1994.
But one unsuccessful bet was against Makybe Diva in the 2005 Melbourne Cup.
The ATO claims the punters' club's technique is akin to the high stakes world of online share trading. The ATO says the "sophisticated planning and actions" of the club were "designed to evade tax" and to hoodwink the authorities into thinking their operations were much smaller than they actually were.
The ATO alleges the club deliberately destroyed its gambling records and used computer encryption software to make prosecuting the members difficult.
The ATO has slapped Mr Walsh, Mr Mamacas, who resides in Las Vegas, and Mr Ranogajec, who lives in London's prestigious, One Hyde Park in Knightsbridge, with revised bills for 2004, 2005 and 2006.
If successful it is almost certain the men will be slugged for the subsequent six years and into the future.
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Mathematical gurus beating the odds for $50m a year | News.com.au
Secret wealthy gamblers club is going to war | thetelegraph.com.au
David Walsh, a member of the mysterious Punters' Club. Source: Herald Sun
Some of the fortunes of the
mysterious Punters' Club have been spent on creating personal art
museums and installing sushi bars and tenpin bowling alleys in
their palatial homes。
The Herald Sun today can lift the lid
on the secretive group, identifying all 19 members who collectively
make a reported $50 million profit from $2 billion worth of bets
placed annually。
The success of the Punters' Club has come to the attention of the
Australian Tax Office, which claims the professional nature of the
group means the usual rule that gambling winnings are tax-exempt
does not apply. In fact, it says, the club is liable for $900
million in unpaid tax。
Three Punters' Club members have vowed to fight the claim,
insisting they have nothing to hide。
Early last month, Tasmanian gambler David Walsh quietly contested
his $37 million tax bill in the Federal Court after he was slapped
with a revised assessment for 2004, 2005 and 2006.
Next, Tasmanian poker player and businessman George Mamacas
followed suit. And on June 29, the king of the Punters' Club,
another former Tasmanian, Zeljko Ranogajec, put his head above the
parapet。
Most of the original club members are aged between 47 and 50 and
met studying mathematics at the University of Tasmania。
Court documents have revealed the names of all 19 members, and that
14 of them have been audited by the ATO, mainly for their income in
2006, when the club had a turnover of more than $2.4 billion。
Almost all are relatively unknown。
Those with some sort of profile include Eddie Malovnek, 47, of
Bellerive, Tasmania, who works in video and audio production;
reclusive Gold Coast investor and mathematician Duncan Turpie, who
bankrolls online political journal newmatilda.com; Phillip Turner,
a professional gambler from Sandy Bay, Tasmania; South Australian
David Steicke, 49, a professional Hong Kong-based poker player; and
Ray Gatt, 50, who owns the Eden Springs Winery in SA's Eden
Valley。
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