It’s really hard to do in casinos too. They often use something like six decks and shuffle well before they’re through it.
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Serinus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Fake. Counting cards (in blackjack) isn’t a good way to make money. It involves large changes in your bet size that make it extremely obvious. If you’re bad at it, places will let you do it while you lose money. If you’re actually good at it (he’s not), they’ll kick you out. It’s an obvious thing that places don’t put up with if you’re winning.
tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 9 months ago
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
It’s not impossible but with dealers moving at 90mph it’s fuckin hard
Vigge93@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It’s absolutely possible to make good money counting cards. There’s a great series by Steven Bridges on YouTube where he goes through the process of counting cards in action, in several different casinos in different states and countries, both alone and with team-play.
Klear@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Oh, it’s on youtube? Must be true then!
StorminNorman@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Literally has videos on his channel of him card counting and winning big. Consistently.
KevonLooney@lemm.ee 9 months ago
No it doesn’t involve abnormal shifts in betting. Only idiots would move from $5 directly to $100 per hand. Average gamblers start small and get excited too.
If you do it slowly, starting at the minimum and getting “excited” when the deck is rich in tens, no one will notice or care. Play $5 to $50 and order a drink.
The average card counter is a young single dude in a baseball cap drinking a water. Wear a fun outfit, get a free drink, and talk to the dealer. No one will notice.
And yes, you can count a shoe. You just need to find a dealer that deals about 70% of the cards.
A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If you’re actually good at it (he’s not), they’ll kick you out.
I never understood why this isn’t allowed. Just seems like getting good at the game to me
echodot@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Just seems like getting good at the game to me
Because it isn’t sportsmanship that they’re interested in it’s getting all your cash. They don’t give a damn about the integrity of the game or anything like that.
Mango@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Card games basically don’t have integrity.
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Because the whole point of a casino is to take your money.
StorminNorman@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Bassman1805@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I mean. Temporarily.
While the profits rolled in, so did the “heat” from the casinos, and many MIT Team members were identified and barred. These members were replaced by fresh players from MIT, Harvard, and other colleges and companies, and play continued. Eventually, investigators hired by casinos realized that many of those they had banned had addresses in or near Cambridge, and the connection to MIT and a formalized team became clear. The detectives obtained copies of recent MIT yearbooks and added photographs from it to their image database
StorminNorman@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’d argue that getting away with it for 20yrs means they were still pretty successful.
Serinus@lemmy.world 9 months ago
past two months
In the OP implies this wasn’t twenty years ago.
kautau@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Detectives
Lol if there’s one thing the police are needed for it’s protecting capital
StorminNorman@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Can’t be the police, card counting isn’t actually illegal, they literally have no jurisdiction unless you refuse to leave the premises etc.
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Op is counting 52 cards in basement game, he’s found his calling
vexikron@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Or worse.
For his sake, I hope he takes his winnings so far and walks.
Clowning on a bunch of underground gambling rings is a good way to end up on a lot of shitlists of a lot of less than scrupulous people.
ModsAreCopsACAB@lemm.ee 9 months ago
The good thing about underground gambling rings is that 2k is hardly an amount worth shitlisting about…