There are a couple reasons why people think card counting is illegal. The second reason people think card counting is illegal is because… YES, casinos can ask you to stop playing. Watch me get backed off from a casino in this undercover video Card counters play the game exactly how the casino offers it. They may beat you sometimes, but you will win more often over the long-haul.
You can make REAL money at card counting! So casinos will eject players for that kind of behavior alone, whether or not connected with card counting. And the assumption is that most people would not engage in that kind of behavior unless they are card counting. Card counter Kenny Uston won a court case in New Jersey that prohibits Atlantic City casinos from barring or harassing card counters.
They are allowed to take "defensive" measures such as shuffling up after every deal. Card counters exploit a flaw in the game implementation which is not actually part of the rules of the game. The rules of blackjack say nothing about dealing multiple hands from the same pre-shuffled stack - but that's exactly what makes card counting possible.
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Active 6 years, 10 months ago. Viewed 98k times. Improve this question. EpsilonVector EpsilonVector 1 1 gold badge 2 2 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. Actually, it is not the "mechanic," that makes for card counting. What card counters mostly do is to vary their bet sizes in their own favor. See my answer below. Well, the very odds of the game are per se in the casino's favour -- it turns out they're not a charity : If you want to play a fair game, simply don't go to a casino in the first place NeilCoffey: What you said is basically true, except that the best players can beat the game by varying their bets at appropriate times.
TomAu But isn't that essentially if "the appropriate times" are derived by "card counting" or methods that the casino decides "aren't fair" on their scheme of making a living off an unfair game? TomAu Or by "beat the game" do you mean beat the other players?
I was under the impression that if all players play by what the casino deems are the accepted rules, then statistically, the players collectively are essentially bound to lose to the house. Show 1 more comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer.
Kevin Versfeld Kevin Versfeld 1 1 silver badge 4 4 bronze badges. OK this actually makes sense. As a slightly off topic followup, do casinos typically let you keep what you won if they do catch you card counting? If the casino is in a good mood, they just throw them out.
If you could put someone in jail for what they were thinking, then half of Delhi would be in prison. But while the act of counting is not illegal in itself, casinos are private properties and hold the rights of admission, so they can throw them out under different pretences. They hold certain other rights like not letting you walk out with the money because you enter a sort of a contract with them when you exchange your cash for money chips.
Movies exaggerate and no one really gets killed but there are definitely consequences. You get blacklisted because most casinos share the list of those having been caught with other casinos and across databases. Have you ever been threatened for catching a counter? Most people who get caught get scared. Then they go to the casinos and are horrible actors, so they get caught real fast.
Has there ever been an instance when someone managed to almost get away? And at the same time, you have to maintain a good rapport. So he was an extremely good counter.
We caught him because I was counting as well so we noticed the patterns, plus the person sitting next to him on the table was giving some pretty standard signals of counting, so we had the experience to catch him. So if you know how to count cards, why did you decide to catch cheaters instead of just cheating and make a shitton of money yourself?
A teenager walking out with a million in his pockets may work once or twice, but do it the third time and you might get your hands chopped off.
I have cheated, but only in underground cash games, never at a casino. What is the underground cash game scene like? You invite ten other rich businessmen to play a game at your house and each of them brings their people so you end up having people there.
These guys usually have four to five poker tables set up with a minimum bet so the amount of money being played per hand is anywhere between a lakh to two, and somehow, professional poker cheaters will sneak in, so you need to have that infrastructure in place.
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