Do you remember when I mentioned about imagination and creativity always being able to defeat casinos. Well I would like to tell you a story of when we experimented with using silent vibrating cell phones to signal in the big player. We were inside a casino where they had an upstairs bar area.
In that bar area they had numerous screens showing people the action from the gaming tables on both blackjack and roulette. The pictures were crystal clear and I suddenly had the idea to see of I could count the cards from the bar area…..I could do it easily.
The problem was that when the count went positive, getting down the staircase into the pit and then placing the bets would have taken too long. Suddenly the information seemed useless until I came up with the idea of using a silent vibrating mobile cell phone to call the big player who was down in the pit.
He would have the phone in his pocket and when it rang, he knew that he had to approach the table. There was only one table in operation so we couldnt make a mistake by signalling him to the wrong table. We had one ring for when he had to move in and one for when he had to move out when the count went negative. We purchased a new phone for this very purpose so no one else had the number.
The next thing that we had to ascertain was whether or not these pictures that I was seeing were live or not. We found that out by getting the big player to reach out across the table (the camera was above looking down). We had synchronised our watches to the nearest second and there was next to no time delay.
I would like to report that this idea worked but unfortunately we were plagued by not always being able to get a signal on our respective phones as cell phones around 2002 were still in their relative infancy. Still though, it was a fantastic idea looking back and one that I am very proud of to this day.
It also gives me great pleasure to relate that story as well but I have always believed that if you look hard enough, you will eventually find the answers. It always used to give me a real kick to play blackjack, it was the underhandedness (is that a word?) of it all.
I hope that everyone is enjoying my blog so far and I am really enjoying being with bwin.
take care
Carl
