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Cheating at Blackjack
There are many ways in which a Blackjack cheat can gain the upper hand when playing Blackjack at a land based casino, and since gambling was first invented there have always been people trying to find ways of cheating.
Surprisingly or maybe not so surprising several of these cheaters have been the casinos' themselves! But in recent times the introduction of many different world wide gambling commissions and such like Government bodies have stepped in to tightly regulate these venues.
But no matter how tightly you run a casinos you are always going to get people cheating at Blackjack or attempting to cheat, in this section of the website we will take a peep into this underworld and explain some of the ways in which people cheat at Blackjack.
But please do not use this as a cheater charter and rush out to cheat when you are next playing at a casinos' Blackjack table, in days gone by you may have found yourself in a hole in the desert if you were caught, nowadays you will find yourself up before a judge!
How People Cheat at Blackjack
One way people have tried to walk away from the Blackjack table a surefire winner was to grab an armful of chips from the Dealers chip tray and scarper, quickly out of the door! This isn't recommended as you are likely to get shot as you make your exit!
Another way people have cheated whilst playing Blackjack is to enlist the help of the Dealer, this opens up a wide range of different scams and many of these go un-noticed by the casino.
One way is to get the Dealer to flash the top card of the deck, this allows the players to see the next card to be dealt and to base their wagering decisions accordingly, this takes a lot of practice and effort but it can swing the house edge into the players advantage.
One barmy way people have succeeded into scamming a casino is for them to manufacture and make their own casino chips! At a busy Blackjack table great fortunes can be laundered this way, but of course the counterfeiter has to ensure the chips he produces are of a good enough quality to fool the casino and other players.
Swapping cards is another way people have successfully ripped casinos off this can be done between players to help them get a better hand or it has been known for cheater to swap the entire deck of cards with one that ensures all hands dealt will be winners for the players!
This method of course takes a huge amount of effort and requires several people to be in on the scam to ensure they don't get seen, along with a scamster friendly Dealer!
There you have a few well known ways of cheating at Blackjack, there are many more including some that haven't been uncovered yet which means day in day out people are profiting from this corrupt way of playing!
