Comment on Anon plays poker

• Bassman1805@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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

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  • StorminNorman@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d argue that getting away with it for 20yrs means they were still pretty successful.

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    • Serinus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      past two months

      In the OP implies this wasn’t twenty years ago.

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      • StorminNorman@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        So? I was replying to a comment that said it wasn’t a good way to make money. I gave an example of a group using it to make money for 20yrs. I’d argue that that proves it can be a good way to make money.

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  • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Detectives

    Lol if there’s one thing the police are needed for it’s protecting capital

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    • StorminNorman@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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