For the reasons already mentioned, complex
counting systems are obviously more easily detectable for casino
employees system simple and direct. A group of counters that play
together as a team are readily visible to the "eyes from the sky" staff.
Signs and codes, even if you think that will be overlooked, in most
cases are taken from surveillance cameras - if not immediately,
certainly after, when the security officers revision no tapes.
Instead, the cameras will never be able to pick what goes on inside the
mind of a player, and is probably the main reason for the high-tech
casinos today still have problems to identify card counters more
successful. The moment you bring your system outside of your head and
this includes external assistance from the risks of being caught
increase significantly.
Most blackjack try to identify card counters noting irregularities in
the path chosen in betting, both manually and with the help of
technology. If you use a simple counting system, we can concentrate on
necessities, such as communicating with people around the table, and
adjusting the path chosen in betting so that there will be no cause for
suspicion.
A single player may play only a certain number of hands at once.
Therefore, play in a team may seem like a smart way to increase your
hourly rate. Card counting systems have long existed and the first books
on the subject were published in the early sixties - and simultaneously,
and 'the attempt of the people who work for the casinos to stop these
activities. Listed below are some of the most typical and also failed
efforts by the casinos to terminate the card counting:
Some of the measures taken by the first casinos were to insert a plastic
card, so that you can not play until the end of the whole bunch and you
have to reshuffle, losing the account. They also started to use more
decks of cards in play, although the number of clusters does not really
matter if you are using, for example, the Hi-Lo count explained above. |
