Optical Recognition System To Foil Card Counting? 427
Adair writes "Wired is running this article about a new Optical Recognition System by MindPlay being evaluated by some casinos to keep constant track of table game play in order to identify card counters by their patterns of play. The software, using 14 digital cameras around the table, can keep track of every card played, amounts bet, and even tell the difference between your drink, napkin, cards, chips, and ashtrays."
heh (Score:3, Funny)
Ob. quote (Score:4, Funny)
Raymond: Counting cards is bad.
Charlie: Yes.
Raymond: I like to drive slow on the driveway.
Charlie: If you get this right, Ray, you can drive anywhere you want as slow as you want.
Cards and drinks (Score:4, Funny)
Well if its supposed to be counting cards, I would hope it could tell the difference between a jack of spades and a jack of daniels. [jackdaniels.com]
Great! (Score:5, Funny)
Great!
Hopefully it'll warn me the next time I try drinking from an ashtray
Choice Quote (Score:2, Funny)
As reported by the supervisors?
Technology marches on (Score:4, Funny)
And thus, the robots have finally surpassed the cognitive abilities of drunken gambling addicts.
Aaawh Crap! (Score:5, Funny)
And I used to make quite a bundle by slipping in a ashtray or a drink into my cards and getting a full house and then blaming my napkin-looking wife for it...
Re:Marked Deck! (Score:3, Funny)
Of COURSE the deck is marked -- it would be hard to tell how well you're doing if every card were blank.
Re:What's wrong with counting anyway...?!?! (Score:5, Funny)
I'm riding a winning streak right now!
Interesting Thing about Sobig... [slashdot.org] (Score:5, Funny) ... forgive me please ... [slashdot.org] (Score:5, Funny)
a biased opinion (from an undergrad) [slashdot.org] (Score:5, Insightful)
strangely enough [slashdot.org] (Score:5, Funny)
zealot vs. fanatic [slashdot.org] (Score:5, Funny)
someone had to say it
I reckon I should pop down to a casino after work... this could be my lucky day!