ihate17
Well-Known Member
Please do not give history lessons when you know not what you are talking about
Add to this that one of the best cardcounting teams ever came from the Czech Republic and though the percentage of CSM's outside the U.S. is probably higher than in the U.S. it is very far from your stated 0. Try the Carribean, South America, Canada, several European Nations and some Asian nations (not Macau) and guess what, they use ASM's and even sometimes hand shuffle.
Cardcounting is unheard of outside the U.S? Guess what, I have been backed off in three other nations and I know of people who have the same kind of experiences. Hell, I was beaten and robbed in the parking lot of a casino in East Asia many years ago. And the Czech counting team learned how to count in Europe.
In Las Vegas the percentage of CSM's in use on blackjack tables has been reduced over the past 6 years. There may be a few more but only because there are many more tables. There are a grand total of ZERO CSM's in Nevada high limit room blackjack tables. The trend in the U.S. has been the opposite of your history record for more than half a decade.
The ASM is what might take over in the U.S. Just about as many hands as the CSM but where the CSM tables sit empty or have the lowest (lowest better often means slowest player) betting players, high rollers appear very willing to play a shoe shuffled by an ASM.
Finally, it has so far been proven that the opinion of a cardcounter has absolutely nothing to do with the decision to lease and then remove CSM's, which has happened at every Vegas casino. That power belongs not to counters and not too casino management. It belongs to the U.S. blackjack players who have voted over and over again, with their feet, against the CSM overwelmingly.
ihate17
It is Edwartd Thorp and not Ian who wrote beat The Dealer, which in fact did make blackjack popular but definately not in AC in the 1950's, unless he was playing with Sopranos father and uncle because there was no legal casino gambling in New Jersey in the 50,s or the 60's and early 70's for your historical record.Mr. T said:
Add to this that one of the best cardcounting teams ever came from the Czech Republic and though the percentage of CSM's outside the U.S. is probably higher than in the U.S. it is very far from your stated 0. Try the Carribean, South America, Canada, several European Nations and some Asian nations (not Macau) and guess what, they use ASM's and even sometimes hand shuffle.
Cardcounting is unheard of outside the U.S? Guess what, I have been backed off in three other nations and I know of people who have the same kind of experiences. Hell, I was beaten and robbed in the parking lot of a casino in East Asia many years ago. And the Czech counting team learned how to count in Europe.
In Las Vegas the percentage of CSM's in use on blackjack tables has been reduced over the past 6 years. There may be a few more but only because there are many more tables. There are a grand total of ZERO CSM's in Nevada high limit room blackjack tables. The trend in the U.S. has been the opposite of your history record for more than half a decade.
The ASM is what might take over in the U.S. Just about as many hands as the CSM but where the CSM tables sit empty or have the lowest (lowest better often means slowest player) betting players, high rollers appear very willing to play a shoe shuffled by an ASM.
Finally, it has so far been proven that the opinion of a cardcounter has absolutely nothing to do with the decision to lease and then remove CSM's, which has happened at every Vegas casino. That power belongs not to counters and not too casino management. It belongs to the U.S. blackjack players who have voted over and over again, with their feet, against the CSM overwelmingly.
ihate17