A very interesting article (for me anyway), just posted in The Economist on the lengths smart money bettors go to once they\u2019ve been ID\u2019d. Mostly referring to UK betting, there\u2019s plenty of info for U.S. bettors too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t consider myself \u201csmart.\u201d Possibly enlightened. Maybe swimming with the smarts, happy being a catfish, a scuffler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When North Carolina opened sports betting, like any half-conscious advantage player, I took every sign up, netting over $1,000 (then used my NFL futures strategy, which I\u2019m told is NOT smart, though I won three out of four seasons, then stopped).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But what really struck me in the article wasn\u2019t just the inventive covers smarts used to avoid detection and get their bets in (like using beards, especially whales), but how thoroughly the books could detect and ID a square or a smart by the first bet, or sooner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Did you use a debit card (square, good) or e cash? (smart, bad). Male? Or female? (Bad.) Type of bet placed? When was it placed? At posting? Bad. Are your bets smarter than the house\u2019s from day one? (Very bad.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Though illegal in some states, the smarts\u2019 bets were restricted immediately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The continuing automation of gaming makes it harder every day to implement advantage plays. It becomes increasingly important not just to play smart, but also coy or with covers. Or both. Using every advantage you can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A Huntington Press book on blackjack strategy focused on how to effectively throw off the house by making certain bets that LOOKED square, but barely affected the player\u2019s edge. Taking the minimal loss in edge was worth it compared to the reduced house heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In sports betting, a simple strategy is to throw in parlays. They\u2019ll leave you alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are areas in electronic game software that appear to deploy additional randomization when the software detects betting patterns particularly in e-roulette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When e-roulette first came out, many games were deployed without software pattern-detection settings. Certain bias patterns occurred that could be exploited \u2014 for almost two years. Eventually, the house turned on the pattern-detection software, probably because the game wasn\u2019t earning \u201cenough.\u201d Then when you played that same machine, as soon as a betting-pattern bias was detected, the ball speed changed. End of pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Reading the manufacturers\u2019 manuals revealed that the software was implementing \u201ccheating-prevention\u201d techniques almost as bad as old-school magnets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m deploying strategy. So are they. Mine\u2019s advantage play. There\u2019s is illegal. Beyond calling Gaming Control, there was little I could do to stop it, except continue my relentless pursuit of advantage play \u2026 elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They want losers. Period. In reality, I\u2019m neither a square nor a smart. Just a scuffler. My goal? I don\u2019t like to gamble. I like to win money. Play as long as possible, win some and lose as little as possible. The house doesn\u2019t like that either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Example: Just came back from a week in Vegas. My trip was free. The secret? Stay under the radar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The adventure continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A very interesting article (for me anyway), just posted in The Economist on the lengths smart money bettors go to once they\u2019ve been ID\u2019d. Mostly referring to UK betting, there\u2019s plenty of info for U.S. bettors too. I don\u2019t consider myself \u201csmart.\u201d Possibly enlightened. Maybe swimming with the smarts, happy being a catfish, a scuffler. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86405,"featured_media":843497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[643],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/bobby-vegas-friends-dont-let-friends-play-triple-zero-roulette.jpg?fit=980%2C588&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=901100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901102,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/901100\/revisions\/901102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=901100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=901100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=901100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}