Card counting a favored hobby. Better rethink that strategy.

Card counting a favored hobby.  Better rethink that strategy.

My feelings on card counting are rather positive. Positive because going into a casino, the odds are so monumentally against you, it almost makes more sense to simply open your wallet and tip it upside down leaving all of your cash/plastic on the floor because that’s essentially what happens to most. If someone can figure out a legal way to tip the odds in favor of the little guy looking for a buck, then why not? First, if you didn’t know, card counting is the...

iPhone + card counting app = black eyes and bruised egos compliments of Las Vegas casino security

iPhone + card counting app = black eyes and bruised egos compliments of Las Vegas casino security

I’m all for giving the underdog an advantage and a fighting chance, however the recently announced iPhone app called “Card Counter” is quickly making waves in Vegas…and not for the better.  While card counting isn’t illegal, the use of card counting machines are.  That includes iPhones packin’ the Card Counter app.  So if you’re thinking of running over to Vegas to make few thousand dollars think twice as hotel/casino security...