Just how can you cheat the dealer when that dealer gets to handle the cards and the player never gets to touch them? Well there are numerous cheating techniques……some are subtle and some not quite so subtle. One less than subtle method is for a player to deliberately damage the cutting card by putting a nick into it or slicing it slightly. The effect of this is not very obvious until you see what a damaged cutting card can do to a deck when it is inserted with force. At the end of the shoe then the dealer offers the card to a player for them to cut for the next shoe.
If a cutting card is damaged then this stands a greater chance of damaging a card on insertion and especially when done with force. If a card gets damaged then the dealer will call for a replacement card. Now here is the kicker because if that card is a ten or an ace then knowing where that card is has tremendous value. The next question is……how can you possibly know this and where it is going?
Well if those cards have been handled for quite some time then the edge of the new card will appear whiter than the old cards because it will not have been handled by the dealer. So in the next shoe then the card will be visible when the dealer offers the pack to be cut by the player and then they can simply insert the cutting card in front or behind the white card to make sure that this card is the first card to be dealt from the next shoe. Knowing that a ten will be your first card gives the player a huge 13% edge and a colossal 51% if that card is an ace.
