I have had many people over the past few years contact me about my comments on beating automatic shuffling machines. I feel that this needs a little explaining because people do tend to quote the obvious, “how can you beat them when you have no count or tracking information?”
That is a viable question of course as you simply cannot card count or shuffle track these things as the cards are being continuously shuffled with most designs. But after nearly ten years in the gaming industry, you become aware of numerous cheating techniques (it just comes with the job).
These techniques apply whether or not the game has an automatic shuffler as they are cheating techniques and not card counting or shuffle tracking techniques. Actually strictly speaking, they are not just cheating techniques but also tchniques that take advantage of dealer errors, how to look for them and also how to deliberately create them.
At the end of the day, dealers become tired……they get bored by the sheer repetition of their job…..they get annoyed by the behaviour of certain punters…..these are all negative emotions that impact on their ability to be able to do a certain job.
So at specific times of the shift, dealer errors can be more likely…….but consider this…….imagine of you are playing on a game with a shuffling machine and playing from £5-£15 per hand with an average bet of £10. You get dealt 60 hands per hour on an average game at a typical house edge of 0.5%. This means that you have placed £600 in action in an average hour and the house has taken 0.5% of that which is £3.
So your hourly rate in this instance is -£3 per hour…….but what if a dealer was making one error per hour at an average bet size of £10 that resulted in you being paid when you shouldnt have been paid or (stagger at the thought), you pull off one subtle cheating move per hour…….suddenly you are now at +£7/hour and not -£3.
Two instances per hour and you are now making decent money…….its bad……its cheating…..its opportunism……BUT ITS POSSIBLE!
Regards
Carl
