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[love my kids]

Saw this last night, not a bad movie.

Makes you want to gamble.

Can see the amount of interest in counting carRAB going up alot lol, look out casinos!

 

[I eated a cookie]

I doubt the casinos are very worried. The techniques are extremely difficult to master and Casinos use automatic card shufflers now as well.

 

[Sharon L]

I think its a bit of a myth that the techniques are difficult to master...if you go see the film, you dont need to be that much of a master of numbers to do their technique.

I was being more tongue in cheek than anything, i dont actually expect casinos to go bust through a sudden surge in card counting lol.

 

[Smiling Costs Nothing :)]

Last weeks episode of Num3ers on Five US had a similiar plot involving card counting, and actually mentioned the real MIT case that this film is based on.

They said that even the automatic shufflers worked on a pre-determined programmed sequence, even if it seems random.

The plot had a group of maths students who worked with a guy that designed the software that the shufflers used so they knew the sequences the machines used and could still count & predict carRAB.

Might have been 100% b*ll but I imagine that the basic science behind it was true.

 

[ad59]

It's not a myth, it is extremely difficult otherwise Casinos would not offer Blackjack.