zengrifter
Banned
I just came across this, maybe some of you have already seen it. zg
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Who's Holding the Aces Now?
http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,60049,00.html
By Daniel Terdiman | Aug. 18, 2003 | Wired.com
Rob McGarvey is, in the lingo of the blackjack world, an advantage player. A card counter. To maximize his take, he keeps track of the cards as they're dealt, and tailors his bets based on the cards his system predicts will hit the felt next.
Card counting, of course, is nothing new. Math professor Ed Thorp scorched Vegas with his groundbreaking 1962 book, Beat the Dealer, that detailed winning card-counting strategies. It's been a pitched battle ever since, with counters and casinos each developing new systems to stay one step ahead of the other.
An El Dorado casino dealer sets up a blackjack game at a MindPlay MP21 table. The high-tech system can help casinos spot card counters.A graphical representation of play at a MindPlay blackjack table. Casinos say the system, which can help spot card counters, tracks gamblers' play for legitimate purposes, such as increasing the accuracy of comp programs that reward frequent players.
But to hear some tell it, the casinos' latest offensive may be its strongest yet against McGarvey and his peers. That's because of a new optical pattern recognition technology called MindPlay MP21, which is designed to automatically track and analyze the play and betting patterns of every gambler at a blackjack table in real time.
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Who's Holding the Aces Now?
http://www.wired.com/news/games/0,2101,60049,00.html
By Daniel Terdiman | Aug. 18, 2003 | Wired.com
Rob McGarvey is, in the lingo of the blackjack world, an advantage player. A card counter. To maximize his take, he keeps track of the cards as they're dealt, and tailors his bets based on the cards his system predicts will hit the felt next.
Card counting, of course, is nothing new. Math professor Ed Thorp scorched Vegas with his groundbreaking 1962 book, Beat the Dealer, that detailed winning card-counting strategies. It's been a pitched battle ever since, with counters and casinos each developing new systems to stay one step ahead of the other.
An El Dorado casino dealer sets up a blackjack game at a MindPlay MP21 table. The high-tech system can help casinos spot card counters.A graphical representation of play at a MindPlay blackjack table. Casinos say the system, which can help spot card counters, tracks gamblers' play for legitimate purposes, such as increasing the accuracy of comp programs that reward frequent players.
But to hear some tell it, the casinos' latest offensive may be its strongest yet against McGarvey and his peers. That's because of a new optical pattern recognition technology called MindPlay MP21, which is designed to automatically track and analyze the play and betting patterns of every gambler at a blackjack table in real time.
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