Several weeks ago, a poster at one of the blackjack sites, spiderman, posted accusations of cheating at El Cortez via 2 blackjack tables with newer model automatic shuffle machines, alleging that the machines have a function capable of non random, high card clumping (huge advantage to the house). Spiderman had accumulated months of data on the specific tables in question. Noted blackjack mathematician and expert Don Schlesinger confirmed that if Spiderman's data was accurate, the numbers indeed, revealed card clumping out of the normal range of randomness.
Despite that a number of players, noted similar finding and suspicions, the site's owner moved the thread to what he call's the disadvantage forum (voodoo forum). That thread was also reposted by a member at WoV, but gained little traction as known casino employee members shot it down.
Spiderman has now proven his suspicions by obtaining one of the model ASM's in question and confirming that there is a feature, accessible by a entering a code, that will stack the cards in a nonrandom manor, high card clumping, that is very advantageous to the house (casino).
I don't want to get into who(m) spiderman might or might not be. Some of us have discussed that in private. But I think this warning is worth repeating for blackjack players who play against ASM's (not to be confused with continuous shuffle machines). It smacks of shades of the whole "mindplay" incident and eventual ruling that went against the casino industry.
Below is a link to the thread.
https://www.blackjacktheforum.com/sh...heating-update
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