Automatic Monkey
Banned
I've been on a NY casino cruise boat that does not spread the cards. It just so happened that I was also getting a lot of really high counts with little success. Bareley eked out a profit.ihate17 said:I know an Indian Casino in California that never spreads the cards. When changing cards the pit comes with a new preshuffled stack and they are placed in the automatic shuffler. I have counted down enough shoes there to be confident that they do not cheat but still think that this is a case of greed and stupidity.
They are greedy because they do not want to have 10 minutes of downtime once a day when they change out their 6 deck shoes. The casino makes no money while cards are being spread but I have witnessed and know people who will not step foot in their casino because they are suspicious of this lack of openness. They create mistrust and I believe that costs them multiples of what they make by never spreading. They are not cheating so why let a number of people think they are?
ihate17
Now I know that even in high counts, in shoe games you cannot feel yourself winning over the course of one night, and human perception is such that you don't notice your advantage or disadvantage as you play. The multitude of huge counts was the issue though. I think that if I have ever been cheated by a casino, it was on that boat. I'm not going to go back and prove it because I have nothing to gain nor the level of experience a gaming investigator should have.