BlackJack : i-Table

BondiB

New Member
At the most recent G2E in Las Vegas I stumbled upon Shuffle Masters new product the i-Table.
It is effectively a BJ table with embedded lcd's, virtual chips and real cards are used.
The increase in hands per hour is obvious, however will this product catch on?
 

FLASH1296

Well-Known Member
It also sounds like it makes doing an (accurate) "skills check" on every player, in real-time, a trivially easy and automatic procedure.

Aaargh!
 

zengrifter

Banned
FLASH1296 said:
It also sounds like it makes doing an (accurate) "skills check" on every player, in real-time, a trivially easy and automatic procedure.

Aaargh!
Which can be knocked out, for comp-counters as well, with an RFID-zapper. zg
 

FLASH1296

Well-Known Member
Make sure you have bail money in your shoes.

L.O.L.

The better casinos all have installed hi-tech equipment that monitors transponders, video transmitters, etc. Their silent alarms goes off and large rent-a-cops grab you by the elbows, yank you out of your chair, and drag your ass to a back-room where you are detained while you try to worm your way out of jamming their RFID signals. You try not to piss yourself while the security goons call the F.B.I. and tell them that you had been using what looks to them like a remote bomb detonator.

L.O.L.
 

Blue Efficacy

Well-Known Member
FLASH1296 said:
It also sounds like it makes doing an (accurate) "skills check" on every player, in real-time, a trivially easy and automatic procedure.

Aaargh!
How? It uses real cards. Does it automatically read them like Mindplay?
 

ihate17

Well-Known Member
As long as the system is visible and word gets out

If the system is visible on the tables, people will refuse to play on it and will go to competing casinos that do not have it.

As long as word gets out that the devious contraption knows the exact order of every card in the shoe (as Mindplay did) and can be used by the casino to cheat (as the El Dorado in Reno did with Mindplay), people will refuse to play on it and will go to competing casinos that do not have it.

In these cases it will be more money mis-spent by soon to be fired idiot casino managers

Now if you operate an isolated casino with enough addicted gamblers to fill your tables it could very well work.

It is shufflemasters business to sell these things to casinos based upon un-proven lies that it will increase profits and reduce payroll and they will keep coming up with them till (and this will NEVER EVER POSSIBLE HAPPEN) casinos stop making decisions based upon their two overpowering traits----GREED and PARANOIA!

ihate17 (do not card for shuffle master either)
 

FLASH1296

Well-Known Member
I never heard about an incident re:cheating by the El Dorado in Reno with Mindplay.

Does anyone have a link to this story ?
 

ihate17

Well-Known Member
Check posts from about 18 months ago on bj21.com

FLASH1296 said:
I never heard about an incident re:cheating by the El Dorado in Reno with Mindplay.

Does anyone have a link to this story ?
Flash: Here is some of what I remember. An attorney from California tried to sue El Dorado, Bally-Alliance Gaming and the Nevada Gaming Board. He was not permitted to sue the board but the board stepped in and mandated an 8 hand delay of live Mindplay information to the pit, which obviously ended El Dorado's cheating on single deck.
What they were doing was whenever the count was positive the El Dorado would shuffle up early but whenever the count was negative they would deal as deeply as they could into the deck.

Only a counter would notice this but in fact since a positive deck favors all players they were changing the natural outcome of the game, in other words cheating.

Not too long after the ruling by the gaming board, Mindplay was removed from El Dorado.

ihate17
 

ihate17

Well-Known Member
Could not attach files

Flash

If you are a green chip member, go to green chip general and check posts from late September 2007, I can not seem to attach them. Perhaps ZG (he seems to be the attachment expert can do this for you if you are not a greenchip member.

ihate17
 

EasyRhino

Well-Known Member
Holy crap, the one time I played at El Dorado, I hadn't noticed preferential shuffling. I wonder how much merit was in the lawsuit.
 

ccl

Well-Known Member
i played the el dorado several times with these tables, and at the time didnt know what they were. When i asked the dealers just said it was to make sure the cards were all there. I use to play there but after seeing what they are used for i doubt ill play there anymore, even though they are gone

ccl
 

ihate17

Well-Known Member
The merit is:

EasyRhino said:
Holy crap, the one time I played at El Dorado, I hadn't noticed preferential shuffling. I wonder how much merit was in the lawsuit.
There merit is in the fact that given real time count information the El Dorado could have shuffled early when the count favored the players. This person says they did but that is not important. The fact that they could have because of the info from Mindplay gives the suit perhaps no merit but made the gaming board get off their fat asses and actually do something for players.
The truth is that Mindplay as sent from the manufacturer should have been declared an illegal cheating device by the gaming board but we all know who they really work for.

ihate17
 

ihate17

Well-Known Member
Took the Hilton for about 30 grand

ccl said:
i played the el dorado several times with these tables, and at the time didnt know what they were. When i asked the dealers just said it was to make sure the cards were all there. I use to play there but after seeing what they are used for i doubt ill play there anymore, even though they are gone

ccl
Once upon a time the Hilton (Las Vegas) had about the best blackjack in town and very crowded pits of players. Then some since fired genius decided that he would install Mindplay21 in their casino so he could fire some pit and eye types, cut customer comps and perhaps catch a few pesky cardcounters.
The result of this I usually refer to as casino suicide. Players hated the device even if they did not understand what it did. They fled to other casinos. One pit actually looked up the patten application for Mindplay and read that it's two main benifits to the casino was the reduction in personel and reduction in comps! Reduction in personel, perhaps that is why it was always breaking down at the Hilton.
Well, it catches cardcounters. Perhaps the lone amatuer cardcounter was often busted on these things but it had absolutely no defense against teams of any size and my neice and I took it for almost 30 grand one weekend as just a two person team. They might have caught on to us before Mindplay but once in use they depended on it and that was their mistake.

ihate17
 
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