Some company is marketing a glorified ruler for casino surveillance to keep track of the running count. That's just silly. And it won't help if a counter is not using the Hi-Lo method.
Device laws based on the Nevada model do not allow either the casino or the player to use any device to count cards in real time. If the casino uses this device to decide to order shuffles during play it could very well be illegal.
yes, because multi billion dollar establishments that have swings daily of 100k+ and multi million dollar surveillance systems cant afford a computer to count
yes, because multi billion dollar establishments that have swings daily of 100k+ and multi million dollar surveillance systems cant afford a computer to count
Device laws based on the Nevada model do not allow either the casino or the player to use any device to count cards in real time. If the casino uses this device to decide to order shuffles during play it could very well be illegal.
I believe a Nevada court has told the casinos they may not use Mindplay that way, because it affects the results and play of the game.
Using it in surveillance would be something different because surveillance does not affect what is going on at the table. I suppose they could; a signal from surveillance could come down to back off a big better (counting or not) or to switch dealers and force a shuffle in a DD game. That would probably be found illegal too because it has the same effect on the odds as using it to shuffle. The only way to use it legally would be to wait until the normal shuffle to back a player of with the information, because then the information is not current.
Better off to assume in general that our opponents are smart and dedicated. But of course in reality this is often not the case. Just need to think through how most companies hire and treat their employees, its "expensive" retaining talented and experienced employees.
Better off to assume in general that our opponents are smart and dedicated. But of course in reality this is often not the case. Just need to think through how most companies hire and treat their employees, its "expensive" retaining talented and experienced employees.
They are psychologically different from us because they chose the low-skill, low-reward, low-ambition path of a career in a casino. We chose the high-risk, high-reward, the-more-skill-the-better path on the other side of the table. That's why the only ones who ever appear to be decent people to us are some of the dealers, a lot of them do not consider that their career and they are just doing it to pay bills while they aspire to something better.