AP Countermeasures (Are Casinos Cheating)

GeoDawg posted this in the blogs section. My sense is not many wander into that part of the website and I thought this deserved its own thread. I only just started reading it:

https://harvardjsel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2019/02/HLS102.pdf

Definitely worth a read. Thanks so much, both you and GeoDawg.

Quote: beachbumbabs

Definitely worth a read. Thanks so much, both you and GeoDawg.

I was interested until I saw it was 30 pages. Anyone want to sum it up?

If you read things like this, be prepared to be called crazy and paranoid by other people because you know more than them.

Quote: PokerGrinder

I was interested until I saw it was 30 pages. Anyone want to sum it up?

I would say someone like you already knows everything said in the paper.

It goes into the difference between legal and illegal moves, covers briefly various methods like card counting and edge sorting, past-posting, capping, etc to show the difference to an uneducated group between illegal and legall moves and has plenty of citations to prove their point.

I would skip to part three which is about how the casino countermeasures against legal AP amount to stealing but still I imagine this isn't something you don't already know.

For example they discuss how preferential shuffling so that even ploppies only get to play when the game has unfavorable conditions is basically cheating under most state statutes by definition.

Part four shows how these methods actually hurt casinos more than the amount of money saved and if casino execs actually read, understood and weren't so paranoid of advantage play perhaps this would be a great boon but execs aren't going to change.