On 1 Dec 2003 at 13:19, Dave Dyer wrote:
In casino games where each player plays against the house, are there any mathematically sound strategies that a player working for the house could employ to disadvantage other players? Assume that the winnings or losses of such players are unimportant because it all goes back to the house.
Certainly -- in Blackjack, where the 'heat' of the deck affects the player's effective-odds, when the deck is disfavorable to the house, the 'shill' could play lots of hands and keep getting hit as much as possible, using up cards as quickly as possible to work through the 'bad stats' on the deck with as few customer-wins as possible. /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:bernie@fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <--