Why is it whenever someone wins a decent amount there is always some kind of "collusion" or "cheating" accusations?Maybe the player is just good. But even still, most of the cheating isnt even really cheating, like with cards. The house is just looking to get your money, not the other way around and this incident only proves that to be true.
That'd be because there
is no skill in a regular game of
baccarat / punto banco. There's no such thing as a "good" player. There are just players that get lucky from time to time - unless the casino has a flaw in its procedures (as it did in both Ivey cases) and a player tries to take advantage.
And I'd argue the point about
"The house is just looking to get your money, not the other way around" too. I mean what kind of idiot player goes into a casino not hoping to take the casino's money?
This seems no different than "card counting" to me. He found an advantage and used it to his own success. As the article states, it was still a random game. He merely had more info than the Casino would have liked him to have. I thought with card counters (in BJ) they merely ask you to leave and not come back. But in this case, Ivey took so much money... they are trying to get some/all back.
The major difference between this incident and ordinary card counting is that edge sorting requires both defective cards
and physical manipulation of the cards (they ones you want 'marked' have to be turned the opposite way to the rest of the deck, and then stay that way).
A
blackjack card counter, on the other hand, can ply their trade without ever even touching the cards.
Whether this makes any actual legal difference I have no idea though.
