
Originally Posted by
Sonny
Wow, that was a while ago. Yeah, initially the casinos were dealing craps from a shoe which meant the game was countable and potentially trackable. Once they started getting hit too hard they switched to shuffle machines. A few of us (independently apparently) reverse engineered the machines and were able to predict how the cards would come out. The casinos tried several different machines, including at least 3 by Shufflemaster, but they were all vulnerable to some degree or another. After randomly changing the game conditions and blindly tweaking the dealing procedures they eventually lowered the edge enough that it wasn't worth playing anymore. The fact that they didn't fix the games shows that they don't truly understand the vulnerability, which is why people aren't discussing the details on public forums.
-Sonny-
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