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A new App Store software application made available for Apple’s touch-screen iPhone handset is causing something of a ruckus with gambling regulators in Nevada after it emerged that it gives users an illegal advantage while playing the casinos.


More pointedly, regulators have issued a warning to all casinos regarding the card counting abilities of the unnamed iPhone application, which places a focus on the popular game of blackjack.

While the act of card counting is itself not illegal under U.S. law (although seriously frowned upon within casinos themselves), using a device to aid card counting is considered a felony.

(Nevada learned of the program from gambling regulators in California, where officials at an Indian casino found customers using it and tipped state authorities).

:dirol
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Manne wrote: A new App Store software application made available for Apple’s touch-screen iPhone handset is causing something of a ruckus with gambling regulators in Nevada after it emerged that it gives users an illegal advantage while playing the casinos.


More pointedly, regulators have issued a warning to all casinos regarding the card counting abilities of the unnamed iPhone application, which places a focus on the popular game of blackjack.

While the act of card counting is itself not illegal under U.S. law (although seriously frowned upon within casinos themselves), using a device to aid card counting is considered a felony.

(Nevada learned of the program from gambling regulators in California, where officials at an Indian casino found customers using it and tipped state authorities).

:dirol
Counting is legal in Nevada, but it is so hard to do right that I suspect casinos make a fortune off tourists who have read a couple of books on counting and come to Vegas to try their luck. It isn't that counting cards is harder to understand than any advanced math - it is only statistics in a broad sense - but with the speed of play and multiple decks used by most casinos, you really have to be a math wizard to pull it off. And the few people with those kinds of math skills can find a job a lot less risky than blackjack.

Have a nice day.
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Manne wrote: A new App Store software application made available for Apple’s touch-screen iPhone handset is causing something of a ruckus with gambling regulators in Nevada after it emerged that it gives users an illegal advantage while playing the casinos.


More pointedly, regulators have issued a warning to all casinos regarding the card counting abilities of the unnamed iPhone application, which places a focus on the popular game of blackjack.

While the act of card counting is itself not illegal under U.S. law (although seriously frowned upon within casinos themselves), using a device to aid card counting is considered a felony.

(Nevada learned of the program from gambling regulators in California, where officials at an Indian casino found customers using it and tipped state authorities).

:dirol
I need to try this out 😄
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Manne wrote: A new App Store software application made available for Apple’s touch-screen iPhone handset is causing something of a ruckus with gambling regulators in Nevada after it emerged that it gives users an illegal advantage while playing the casinos.


More pointedly, regulators have issued a warning to all casinos regarding the card counting abilities of the unnamed iPhone application, which places a focus on the popular game of blackjack.

While the act of card counting is itself not illegal under U.S. law (although seriously frowned upon within casinos themselves), using a device to aid card counting is considered a felony.

(Nevada learned of the program from gambling regulators in California, where officials at an Indian casino found customers using it and tipped state authorities).

:dirol
Blackjack is the ONLY gambling game where you can alter the odds by noting the fall of the cards. It is called counting and allowed in Australia (for the moment) but not American casinos.
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