Computer-Based System To Crack Down On Casino Card Counters 597
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Yahoo Tech outlining a system currently being researched: "Card counting is perfectly legal — all a counter does is attempt to keep track of whether the cards remaining in a deck are favorable to his winning a hand (mainly if there are lots of tens and aces remaining in the deck) — but it's deeply frowned upon by Vegas casinos. Those caught counting cards are regularly expelled from casinos on the spot and are often permanently banned from returning. But given the slim house odds on Blackjack, it's often said that a good card counter can actually tip the odds in his favor by carefully controlling the way he bets his hands. And Vegas really doesn't care for that. The anti-card-counter system uses cameras to watch players and keep track of the actual 'count' of the cards, the same way a player would. It also measures how much each player is betting on each hand, and it syncs up the two data points to look for patterns in the action. If a player is betting big when the count is indeed favorable, and keeping his chips to himself when it's not, he's fingered by the computer... and, in the real world, he'd probably receive a visit from a burly dude in a bad suit, too. The system reportedly works even if the gambler intentionally attempts to mislead it with high bets at unfavorable times." It's not developed in Vegas, though, according to the brief description (the other projects are also interesting) from the University of Dundee's release, but rather in conjunction with the Dundee Casino.
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Punk*** Casinos (Score:2, Funny)
Re:And things like this are why... (Score:0, Funny)
Re:White trash Re:And things like this are why... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Judging by all the roulette "systems" on the we (Score:4, Funny)
Great shows.
I watched the various games rules explanation in the hotel tv and laughed at the atrocious stupidity one must suffer to even consider playing with the objective of winning money.
During the small part of my honeymoon I was there, I spent the considerable quantity of 0$ in games. However I did spend several hundreds of your cheap (at that point) bucks in fantastic shows.
I plan on going back soon (EUR-USD parity willing). I know I won't play a single chip and I know I'll still have a wonderful time with the shows.
About the whores. They are, by a large margin, better this side of the pond. Not that I'd even consider one, taking into account they give even worse odds than a casino.
Re:White trash Re:And things like this are why... (Score:3, Funny)
Those for inherited it, instead of working for it, for example.
So, it's performing a beneficial social service by helping to remove hereditary wealth?
Re:Continuous Shufling Machine (Score:4, Funny)
Gambling? At a casino? You don't say.
Re:And things like this are why... (Score:3, Funny)
He. Anyone with the ability to count cards and not doing it would basically be losing on purpose.
So he would be a genius and a complete moron at the same time. ;-P
Re:And things like this are why... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Discipline (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Why don't they just get it over with? (Score:4, Funny)
It's not like making a game, with rules and all, really makes that much difference if they just decide that because you are playing the game by the rules, that you are somehow bad because you succeed? So, you can play the game by their rules, so long as you lose?!?!?
I'm sorry, I got a little confused there; were you talking about casinos or the entire financial industry?
Re:If you play enough, you will ALWAYS lose. (Score:3, Funny)
This is slashdot. We would assume the wedding wasn't yours. You're being verbose. /oblig
Re:If you play enough, you will ALWAYS lose. (Score:2, Funny)
... We were hanging around up at the top of the Stratosphere,
In a balloon? [slashdot.org]
Re:If you play enough, you will ALWAYS lose. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Atlantic City laws say you can't be kicked out (Score:1, Funny)
I will remember to point that out to them when they're smashing my hands with hammers.
Why Do They Call It Gambling? (Score:2, Funny)
If they called it losing, nobody would play.