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accountinquestion
Read what I said. My issue isn't that it isn't possible. My issues is that your eyes would dart around so much but I guess you can abandon it when pit comes around. It isn't like something you do on the regular as part of play as you clarified later.
Maybe other players feel differently but I don't feel looking around is anything. As the matter of fact it is what I do when I am only playing my one game. I don't want to be focused on every card coming out, so I look around, at the nearby TV, at a nearby table and the action there, even if the nearby table is roulette or craps or something, at people passing by. Anything but focusing on card after card coming out. I don't count each card. I use what is called the cancel method. And that is once all or nearly all cards are dealt, I glance at the table high cards cancelling low cards, neutral cards, sort of become invisible and you pick up the count in a fraction, literally a fraction of a second. This is also what allows a player to glance at a table as walking by and immediately pick up a count.
Anyway I see nothing unusual or telling about a player looking around, although as previously stated, I don't move my head or if I do it really is just slightly.
Now something suspicious would be a player standing behind a couple tables backcounting. That gets noticed by both pit and other players. That is why I have never gone to that technique. But a player looking around a bit, I see nothing unusual about that. Maybe others have a different take.