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Dundee student Kris Zutis has invented, with the help of his supervisor, a program that catches players who count cards at Blackjack tables. Essentially, the program does it’s own counting, and then checks if a player’s bets are in line with what a counter would do. Or something like that.
Mentally counting cards is not illegal, but casinos don’t like it because it doesn’t allow them to keep house advantage – which is really a stupid position to hold, when you think about it; simply don’t offer the game if you don’t like people playing it.
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If casinos don’t like card counting, they should do what the online casinos do and shuffle the deck after each hand. Goodbye, advantage from card counting! I think the only Finnish casino, Grand Casino Helsinki, uses automatic shuffling machines that places the used cards at random places in the shoe. No shuffling, no card counting, problem solved.
Besides, I don’t think the number of people playing with the perfect strategy while keeping the count in their heads is that large in any case.