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It's enough stupid, i think anyone here understand. As i said before, "counting" doesn't affect probability of game result. For example, we are playing Hold'em, and i have two Jacks on my hand. So, i'm counting the probability to get
at least one more Jack for set. This will be 2/50 (i don't count cards at my hand, and poker deck has 52 cards). Will it affect a chance to get one more Jack? Obvious - no.
So where is cheating?
Yes, that is not cheating, but the casino has the rule, and they can say that it is illegal or legal. We cannot do anything if they say that it is a dirty cheat, but if the casino is okay with that, then that will be no problem for us.
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I expected something like that. Methinks it can be now rightfully declared as an official grey area for the purposes of this thread. With that said, the case which at this point might be of interest to us (given the amount of attention this dilemma has drawn) is when it is
illegal in a casino to do the card counting. And most interesting is how they are implementing this ban in practice. For example, how are they distinguishing between legitimately raising the stakes and what they think of as illegally upping the ante?
Anyone have an idea?
I don't have any idea since the casino can do anything they want, including to say counting card is illegal.
I think that is not a dilemma because as long as we don't use any technology, and you don't use any trickery or signals or anything else to communicate with someone else, then I guess that will not break the rule. But we know that they can easily ban someone in their place without notice, and they can search for any reason why they ban that person.