{"id":171,"date":"2009-10-16T11:18:03","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T17:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2010-02-23T22:21:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T04:21:13","slug":"vegas-uses-computers-to-nab-card-counters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2009\/10\/vegas-uses-computers-to-nab-card-counters\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas uses computers to nab card counters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Counting cards (without outside help) is legal. But casinos obviously don&#8217;t like it, because it costs them money. And &#8212; surprise! &#8212; casinos don&#8217;t like to lose money: casinos are in the business of helping gamblers <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/blackjack.png\" alt=\"Blackjack Table\" title=\"Blackjack Table\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-172\" \/>lose money. Now casinos are using computers and video cameras to automate the process of detecting card counters:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe anti-card-counter system uses cameras to watch players and keep track of the actual &#8220;count&#8221; 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&#8217;s not, he&#8217;s fingered by the computer&#8230; and, in the real world, he&#8217;d probably receive a visit from a burly dude in a bad suit, too.<\/p>\n<p>The system reportedly works even if the gambler intentionally attempts to mislead it with high bets at unfavorable times.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/blogs\/null\/153312\/computers-to-crack-down-on-card-counters\/\">Yahoo! Tech<\/a>, via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/10\/16\/vegas-uses-computers.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Card_counting\">Card counting<\/a> @ Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counting cards (without outside help) is legal. But casinos obviously don&#8217;t like it, because it costs them money. And &#8212; surprise! &#8212; casinos don&#8217;t like to lose money: casinos are in the business of helping gamblers lose money. Now casinos are using computers and video cameras to automate the process of detecting card counters: The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-card-games","category-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":710,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}