iPhone Banned in Casinos
You are advised to leave your iPhone at home the next time you visit your local casino. One of the latest applications for the iPhone has led to these Smartphones becoming less than welcome at live casinos.
Casinos are becoming so worried about the possibility of blackjack players using their Smartphones to help them count cards that one of the latest iPhone applications has led to this phone being banned from a number of casinos. The application that is stirring up the casino industry is a piece of software called CardCounter.
The latest generations of Smartphones pack in more computing power than was available in a desktop computer of only a few years ago. Nowadays Smartphones are more like mobile computers than devices for voice communications and they can run some highly sophisticated applications. Mobile computers have always been banned from real life casinos, but nowadays it is not possible to differentiate between a computer and a Smartphone. However, a Smartphone running CardCounter poses a serious threat, and in an increasing number of casinos phones have to be checked in at the casino lobby.
The developers of the application claim that its purpose is to teach people how to count cards rather than providing real time assistance to card counting, but gamblers in California have been detected using it at the blackjack tables, and this haws produced a red alert in Las Vegas.
Card counting is perfectly legal, and usually Las Vegas casinos take the phenomenon entirely in their stride. Most human beings do not make very good card counters. Although card counting per se is not too difficult for most people to master, to apply it successfully at the blackjack tables is in reality very difficult as there are so many factors of which to take account. Put a powerful computer into the mix and the picture changes considerably. Successful card counting can reverse the house edge into a personal edge for the gambler of up to five or six percent. No wonder the casinos are getting worried.
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