Regulators warn about Apple's blackjack-counting program
Nevada gambling regulators have warned casinos about a card-counting program for Apple's iPhone and iPod Touch that can illegally help players beat the house in blackjack, according to a story by The Associated Press.
Card counting by players is not illegal in Nevada, but using a device to count cards is a felony. The Nevada Gaming Control Board warned of the program last week.
California gambling regulators said officials at an Indian casino found customers using it.
I have neither an iPhone nor an iPod Touch, so I don't know of the program. Anyone out there have one, and can tell me about it?
Of course, the only application here would be at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, which started blackjack last summer. So the felony threat wouldn't apply, but I'd bet they'd be pretty mad if someone was using one.
NICK SORTAL began playing 3-card "gut" and "Indian poker" on high school band trips, moved on to "night baseball" and "pass the trash" during a Dr. Pepper-infused midnight game in the 1980s at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and now play in a regular neighborhood Hold 'Em game in Plantation. I have been given the assignment of writing about the gambling life in South Florida casinos for the Sun-Sentinel...which means sitting around watching poker on TV now counts as research.
