Casino
Countermeasures
The
following are countermeasures and what steps the player should take
if they occur:
This
is the first and easiest of the casino countermeasures. The house,
to bother, harass, or invalidate the card counter's methods, will
order the dealer to shuffle up every time the player raises his
bet. When this happens, the player should make no comment, but
simply leave the table.
Or
the dealer may shuffle up after depleting only a small part of the
deck, so the player never gets a chance for a favorable run of cards.
Again, no comment is called for. The player should simply get up
and go to another table or another casino.
Sometimes
the harassment depends on the particular shift at a casino. One
shift may be easy on card counters while another is murder. If you
face trouble at the graveyard shift, from midnight to H A.M., it
may be that the day shift will not care at all about your betting
methods.
If
one shift gives you heat, try another shift. If that's the casino
policy, then play a different casino. But remember, at a crowded
table with a single-deck game, the usual policy is for no more than
two rounds of cards to be dealt out. That's pretty standard, not
a casino countermeasure.
Sometimes
you can turn the countermeasure around and make it work for you.
I did this once at the Dunes on the Las Vegas Strip.
The
casino discourages winners
steps
the player
dealer
shuffled up the cards
the
floorman conferred
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