Posted on 07/12/2018 10:38:13 AM PDT by EveningStar
hardly any secrets in professional gambling. Those casinos are expert in reading human behavior, eye movement, fin gets moving, facial expressions. I think card counting is the number one reason people are 86’d.
I worked prisons for 28 years. I remember an old timer that could tell you from watching an inmate for 15 seconds, he’s up to something, he’s holding (has a shank) and so on.
Counting cards is a skill, not cheating.
How can they tell if you’re counting cards? Are they mind readers?
They have their shoes and socks off
Oakley was a very good player by any objective measure, but on the Knicks you can credibly say he was the best player they had since Bernard King in the 1980s.
He isn’t in a shallow ravine in the middle of the Nevada desert?
Wow, Vegas has gone soft!
Betting patterns are the obvious sign of card counting. Casinos pretty
much know when you do it.
Counting cards isn’t illegal.
by your betting patterns.
As soon as you see the pit boss roll up to the table with or without a new dealer, your time is about up. I don't recall if they still shut down the tables in some circumstances or not.
Dealing 6 decks from a shoe, shuffle up before it is half way through, counting becomes useless.
I noticed that the casinos sell books on how to count cards in the gift shop. I came to the conclusion that the casino would be OK if you try, but few really can.
I have been to casino hotels 5 to 10 times on business. Once I retire, I will never go there. Absolutely hate the places.
Same thing with some of the entertainment places for kids where kids earn coupons from games. Grooming future gamblers.
Betting pattern.
I’ve heard that too- casino’s have an amazing amount of security and cameras EVERYWHERE.
Except if you start shooting out of one of their windows. Then there’s no cameras recording any of that.
Only at single-deck - which is just about impossible to find in Vegas, these days. Most tables now use eight decks.
It’s in the betting pattern. Counters will bet more as the deck plays out.
You can be banned for that very minuscule chance that you are able to affect the the chance odds of the game by “card counting”, but it’s really just a movie thing in all practicality, but it “can be done under the correct circumstances”. That is why casinos have a six-deck caddy. In the old days the smart folks could have won by mathematics when playing blackjack.
I miss the excitement of the casino floor...
“Usually it’s really easy to cheat at casino’s because nobody’s ever watching your hands.”
Except the trained dealer, the floor man, and about 50 video cameras.
My late brother was a card counter. He got caught at one casino in Vegas. A couple of large and extremely polite men spoke to him. Gave him vouchers for meals, and a show ticket. Told him he was very welcome to play any of the games the casino had with the exception of blackjack.
He said he could only do it for about an hour before he needed to take a break. Mentally it apparently is very challenging.
Oakley was nowhere near as good as Patrick Ewing.
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