Q: I´m not in the casino business, but I understand a little
about blackjack and decided to take a flyer on your book
Casino-ology (I went with the e-book at the lower price). Good
stuff! But I have a question. In chapter 25, "Marked Card Play in
21," Bill Zender writes: "I possess some video footage of
cheaters denting the 10-value cards [on a 21 game] with the
intentions of busting the dealer once all the 10 cards were
marked. Recently, I was talking to a gaming acquaintance who
mentioned a similar scam that happened many years ago. He told me
that a group of cheaters marked all the 10-value cards on several
games at a casino that utilized a curtain-type shield over the
front of its dealing shoes. Because of the shields, the casino
wrongly assumed the shoes were safe from all types of marked
cards. Over the course of the day, the cheaters dented the bottom
edge along the length of all 10 cards. Later that same day, the
cheaters used that information and the damaged curtains to beat
the casino out of a good deal of money. Once the cards were
marked, the cheaters used both a top-card bettor and a third-base
"anchor" to beat the 21 games that had the defective curtains." I
understand that it would take the amount of time you cite -- "the
course of a day" -- for the cheat to get all (or even most) of
the 10s. But the money player could start playing immediately,
with some advantage, from the first shuffle after at least a
couple of cards were marked, right? So why would they waste all
the opportunity on the way up by waiting till all the 10s were
marked?
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