The 21st-Century Card Counter: The Pros’ Approach to Beating Blackjack by Colin Jones

Author:Colin Jones [Jones, Colin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf, mobi
Tags: Non-fiction/Gambling
Publisher: Huntington Press
Published: 2019-08-22T22:00:00+00:00

casino boss I’ve ever encountered. Thus, he had no recourse. He had to let me go—with the money.

As you can probably gather by now, you too need to know your rights, which often allow that you can refuse to produce ID. I recommend the book The Law for Gamblers, by Robert Nersesian.

Bob is a Las Vegas lawyer who has taken (and won) cases for the instances when casinos overstepped the law. Though admittedly rare, Bob has made a very good living representing advantage players against casinos.

If Things Go Sideways

In the tens of thousands of hours my teams and friends have played blackjack, things have gone sideways on several occasions. Once, a situation got more than a little hairy for me; I found myself being handcuffed 20 feet from the front door while a police officer emptied $60,000 from my pockets and inquired as to my criminal history.

Here’s what happened. I was playing at a tribal casino with a teammate when the casino asked for his ID. He handed it over, thinking it was because he’d reached the $10,000 threshold for a cash transaction report, a routine and legally required exchange of information. But when the casino staff walked away with it, he lost his cool. He grabbed his phone and said, “Give me my ID back or I’m calling the cops.”

When the casino didn’t blink, my teammate called 911, claiming that his ID had been stolen and the perpetrator wouldn’t give it back. The casino photocopied his ID and returned it.

Since I hadn’t raised a fuss, the casino didn’t even demand mine. We were both backed off and after being cashed out, we were free to leave.

On the way out, I stopped at the men’s room. When I came out, a police officer was standing there. The casino had changed its tune. They told the cop that I was the person in question, so the cop assumed I had stolen someone’s ID. When the casino employee said he wanted to see my ID, the police officer just handed it to him, assuming I was the one in the wrong. Looking me up in his database, he saw that my record was clean. He asked me a dozen questions before returning my cash and ID. I rushed to the rental car where my teammate was waiting and muttered a sarcastic,

“Thanks a lot.”

Amazingly, the police officer circled back before we could exit the parking lot to ask one more question: “Can you teach me how to count cards?”

We had just started Blackjack Apprenticeship, so I told him how to find it online and we were on our way.

Aside from an excuse to share my sketchiest story, what was the point of telling you this? The point is that when the police get involved, do whatever they say. Since you’re in the right, with a little bit of patience, it usually gets sorted out. You don’t want to be defiant to the police. If the police or the casino violate your rights, call Bob Nersesian immediately.

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