Blackjack and the Law

by Rose, I. Nelson; Loeb, Robert A.

• ISBN13: 9780910575089
• ISBN10: 0910575088
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Rge Pub

Summary

In 1961, M.I.T. mathematician E. O. Thorp figured out that the game of casino blackjack could be beaten. He then went out and proved the effectiveness of the strategy he devised in a number of Nevada casinos. In the more than three decades since card counting has become a relentless cat-and-mouse game. Casinos now use computers to analyze the strategies of the players at their tables in order to identify the skillful players. They do everything they can to thwart skilled players, and it often seems like the law is on the casinos' side. All casino games, except blackjack, have a built-in house edge, a mathematically calculable advantage to the gaming establishment. The CEO's hate that blackjack can be legally beaten by a small percentage of skillful players who have studied and practiced card counting, but are the casinos going too far in their attempts to stop it? In order to protect their civil rights, casino players today must have a legal arsenal at their disposal. Blackjack and the Law is the foundation of that arsenal, bringing together 14 years of syndicated columns of Attorney I. Nelson Rose with the commentary of Attorney Robert A. Loeb.

Table of Contents

Publisher's Introduction	1	(2)
Preface	3	(5)
Robert A. Loeb
Card Counting
Will Nevada Protect Card Counters	8	(2)
Card Counting is Not Cheating	10	(3)
The Nevada Law on Card Counting: Part I	13	(1)
The Nevada Law on Card Counting: Part II	14	(3)
The Nevada Law on Card Counting: Part III	17	(4)
Card Counters v. Casinos and Regulators	21	(2)
The Atlantic City Law on Card Counting: Part I	23	(3)
The Atlantic City Law on Card Counting: Part II	26	(2)
The Atlantic City Law on Card Counting: Part III	28	(2)
Winners Not Invited	30	(3)
A Brief Legal History of Card Counting	33	(15)
Casino Countermeasures and Preferential Shuffling
Dealers Who Count Cards	48	(2)
Card Counting by Casinos	50	(2)
Preferential Shuffling	52	(2)
New Jersey Supreme Court Undercuts Card Counters	54	(2)
Casino Countermeasures, Preferential Shuffling and Casino Cheating	56	(12)
Cheating and the Backroom
The Backroom and the Law	68	(3)
Player Tactics and Player Cheating	71	(9)
Computers and Devices
Card Counting Devices Made Criminal	80	(4)
Computers and Devices	84	(6)
Identification
Identification, Requirement of Production and False ID	90	(6)
Griffin
The Griffin Detective Agency	96	(6)
The Federal Government Is Watching You and Your Money
Turning in the High Rollers: the Impact of the New Cash Regulations	102	(12)
Gambling and Taxes	114	(6)
It's the Bank's Fault	120	(3)
Living With The New Currency Reporting Regulations	123	(2)
Currency Reporting Regulations (Sidebar)	125	(2)
How to Avoid Taxes On Gambling Winnings - And Go To Jail	127	(3)
Big Brother and Several Sisters are Watching	130	(38)
Internet Gambling
The A. G.s Take On Internet Gambling	168	(3)
Will Internet Casinos Hurt Vegas?	171	(2)
Computer Gambling	173	(2)
Internet Operators Arrested	175	(2)
An Outsider's Guide to the Internet	177	(2)
Gambling on the Internet	179	(3)
Indian Gaming
Recent Developments in the Law on Indian Gaming	182	(4)
Revolution in the Law of Indian Gambling	186	(5)
Don't Cheat at an Indian Casino	191	(1)
Cheated at a Tribal Casino? Who You Goin' To Sue?	192	(2)
California Tribal Gaming Compacts Now A Definite Maybe	194	(3)
California Tribes Gather Signatures for Wide Open Casinos Initiative	197	(2)
Louisiana Tries To Tax Indian Casinos	199	(3)
Tribal Casinos	202	(5)
The Casino Boom
Gambling Boom and Bust? - Part I	207	(3)
Gambling Boom and Bust? - Part II	210	(2)
Gambling Boom and Bust? - Part III	212	(3)
Sinking Riverboats	215	(2)
Casinos - Why Now?	217	(3)
More States Legalize Casinos	220	(2)
Legal Issues in Gaming's New World	222	(3)
More States Legalize Gambling	225	(1)
The Federal Gaming Commission
The Federal Commission Will Lead to New Laws	226	(3)
The Proliferation of Casinos and the National Gambling Commission	229	(2)
Footnotes	231	(8)
Index	239	(6)
About the Authors	245