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I played 2/5 NLH at the Venetian in June of 2015 and had my phone on the table most of the time. I had earbuds in and would check twitter and text friends playi
by dopamean 10y ago
I played 2/5 NLH at the Venetian in June of 2015 and had my phone on the table most of the time. I had earbuds in and would check twitter and text friends playing at other tables between hands. No one seemed to have a problem with it and I wasn't the only person doing something like that. I never thought it would be a problem actually.
- jsprogrammer 10y agoThe cash dropped from tourists is probably worth the annoyance.
- jimmywanger 10y agoMost poker rooms don't like it when you talk on the phone if you're in a hand, or if you speak a different language, especially if it's a big game. Otherwise, people don't care that much, as long as the conversations are pretty short. "Hey man, I'll be done in half an hour" wouldn't raise an eyebrow.
- dghughes 10y agoEnglish is mandatory in nearly all casinos at poker tables it's the universal poker language even in defiantly French Quebec.
- raverbashing 10y agoProbably because most casinos cater to American visitors
- jamoes 10y agoThe cheating device in this article also required a marked deck. So as long as the house isn't in on it, this cheating method wouldn't work in casinos. The article did mention that some anonymous sources claim to be using these devices in Vegas casinos, so I wonder of there are some corrupt dealers in cahoots with the cheaters.
- Scirra_Tom 10y agoIf you had a rigged deck and sleight of hand, you could probably slowly replace the casino cards with the rigged cards. In Blackjack I imagine you'd only need 10 cards in the deck to make it +EV. You could even have one player plant, the other take advantage in teams.
- smitherfield 10y agoYou could coat your fingers with infrared ink. Each card would naturally have a different pattern imprinted on the back depending on how you touched it.
- gruez 10y agoHow would the mapping from random pattern to card be established?
- smitherfield 10y agoWell there's the rub. It's certainly technically possible if the device described in the article is. Tagging the cards with "smart dust"[0] might be easier, and harder for the casino to detect. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartdust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartdust
- jcoffland 10y agoExcept that smart dust does not exist. That Wikipedia page needs to be rewritten. It's vague and misleading.
- smitherfield 10y agos/smart dust/very small RFID chips/g
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- wyager 10y agoI was in Vegas for Defcon over the last two years. Casinos would get uptight if we used our phones at the table at all.
- morgante 10y agoExactly. I'm in Vegas right now and at almost every table there's at least one player with earbuds in. That being said, casinos are very strict about not letting you have a phone at BJ tables.
- michaelcampbell 10y agoI'm not a gambler, so wondering why this is? Because you can see every card at some point? Is this to stop the phone from doing so and keeping a count?