Fuzz, you catch this story yet?
"Tiger Woods Of Poker" Loses Landmark Lawsuit For Cheating In Mayfair Casino
the casino said Phil Ivey was 'edge sorting', if he was, holy shit. It would help to have eye-laser surgery to get 'em at 20-15:
"Edge sorting is a technique used in advantage gambling where a player determines whether a face-down playing card is likely to be low or high at casino table games by observing and exploiting subtle unintentional differences on the backs of some types of card, after persuading a croupier to cooperate by unwittingly sorting the cards into low and high…(the technique) requires the player to trick the croupier into rotating cards. Many packs of cards produced by manufacturers have unintentional edge irregularities. Typically all the backs of the cards in such a pack are identical, but the two long edges of each card are consistently distinguishable: the pattern is not symmetrical to a 180° rotation (half a full turn)."
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the court agrees Ivey was doing this -- does not pass go, does not collect his 7.7 million pounds.
its a remarkable case to claim his manipulation of the dealer is cheating though he never actually touches the cards. Ivey's claim is the casino didn't do enough to protect itself from pro gamblers. Either way, it's an interesting take on getting the effect of see-through glasses for playing cards. That's some next level shit right there...