Blackjack Computer Cooler: How We Beat Las Vegas Casinos

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Trust.
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Trust is everything.
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Having the right team is one thing, but having one guy walking out the front door with a six-figure score, that's trust.
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Welcome to the Cheating at Blackjack.
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I'm the Kaiser, and here's our host, you know who it is, Dustin Marks.
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Well, welcome everybody.
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We're both very excited to share this episode with you.
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It's all about the computer cooler.
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You saw episode 11 last week, but now we're going to get into the story of how they went down.
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Yeah, last week we covered the mechanics of it, you know, basically.
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But now we give you the whole more or less a scenario of how it felt to actually be involved in the cooler play.
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Because there's a lot of moving parts.
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And yeah, we touched on the mechanics of the shuffle and how it lays out, but now you get to see and hear exactly how it went down.
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And remember, we didn't do these every day.
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No, these were infrequent.
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Uh yes, because they were so powerful that I think you'd agree almost everybody in the casino knew somebody was winning a lot of money.
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Yeah, it's it's non-stop.
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And when you're talking about an eight-deck shoe, three hands max, that's a lot of hands at max bet.
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And he just keeps winning, draws a lot of attention very fast.
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So let's recap last week's.
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First, the computer cooler is different from a cooler.
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That's true.
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Yes.
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A cooler was where it was all sleight-of-hand moves where you actually exchanged a pre-arranged deck of cards for the dealer's cards.
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Yeah, the guy would come in with a shoe under his coat, and in the process of cutting the shoe, it's on the table, between the dealer and him, it would swap them out.
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And that was really they got away with it, but ballsy.
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They did it with single decks and double decks as well, which is less conspicuous, but there's still a huge tell when you're swapping out whole decks.
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Code decking is what it is, because you're bringing in a cold deck, and uh it's crazy.
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But they have eliminated all that.
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We let the computer do the switching for us.
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Yeah, which was revolutionary back in the 80s, that makes sense.
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Yeah, no one would even suspect you're using a computer because A, computers were not portable.
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No, and so you couldn't just haul in your PC from your desk and ask the pit boss to plug it in while you while you got so we gotta do this play real quick.
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Could you plug it in?
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It wasn't like that, and uh it was very unique and ingenious, in my opinion.
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So basically, the computer would record the cards with the help of the recorder, and then it would figure out how the BP, big player, should play one, two, or three hands.
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Based on that, the BP would win about 97% of the hands.
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Yeah, that's strong.
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Very well, even a three thousand dollar house, that's nine thousand dollars in action or up to nine thousand in action, not counting the double downs and the snappers, and the snappers, yeah.
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So it just adds up.
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So that's a lot of hands, that's a lot of money.
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Oh, yeah.
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That's why it wasn't done very often.
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Well, there were four key players to get a computer cooler down the cocktail waitress.
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Oh, no, that was I'm sorry, that was the one who brought you for example.
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That's a different player, gotcha.
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Four, four key elements.
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Go ahead.
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So the first player, member of the team, was the recorder.
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Now he's the person who wears the computer.
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So literally wears it.
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You got to explain this to me because how does one wear a computer?
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Back in the 80s, yeah, exactly.
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That's what that's my intrigue here is that it's a big device, and he's wearing how is he wearing this computer?
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Well, the motherboard is literally strapped onto his back, and then he wears a jacket to cover it up.
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Oh, yeah, that would that would look kind of silly.
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Look at that guy, he's a robot.
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Yeah, and dangerous, yeah.
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And then he didn't have a uh keyboard and a keypad.
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Oh, okay, that he would enter in the cards, and it was in his front pocket, and then he didn't have a monitor, obviously, but he had a wired earpiece, and he had long hair to cover it because there was no wireless back in the year.
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No, it was all wired, everything.
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And the computer would literally talk to the recorder, wow, and just say two words, actually, two numbers, like two, three, which meant the BP would play two hands and then take off three hit cards total.
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That's interesting.
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Now, there's a kind of a little thing.
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If those of you who play blackjack, so he's gonna take three cards, and you had and the first question I asked Dustin was well, how do I know which one to hit the three cards?
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Well, it's pretty obvious.
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If you have a 17, that's not one of the hit cards you're gonna take there.
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You're gonna use it on the other hand prior to that.
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So you can look at your hands and know which one you're gonna hit.
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It's not a mystery.
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But that was the first question I asked: how does he know which ones to hit?
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Well, it's obvious.
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And apparently not everybody, it's a face-up shoe.
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Face up shoot, yeah.
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Yeah, everyone gets to see the hands.
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That's a good point.
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Yeah.
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So I was confused on that point, and I hope it helps you a little bit because now we got it.
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So he's got his hit cards, number of hands, and hit cards.
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That's awesome.
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Now, the next member of the team is a dealer, and you can talk about that better than I.
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The dealer, in my opinion, is the one who's got his nuts in a vice.
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Because you have to a deal out as the cards as clean as possible.
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You when you pick up the cards, they have to be picked up in order.
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Absolutely.
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You cannot have any card out of order or the whole thing blows up.
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And when you bring it all out, you have to false shuffle.
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What is it, eight decks?
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You guys were doing it.
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Six or eight decks, which is a lot of sorts of things.
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Either way, it's a lot of shuffling.
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And we'll get into some interesting stories on that because I took mine a little bit different than your first player did, your dealer did.
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A little bit different.
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So you got to fake that to fool everybody, and then you got to put it in the shoe and then deal them out.
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And what it is is once you get past that, once those hands, once the BP lands, slaps out all this money, instant heat.
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In other words, everyone is now glued to this game.
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Now, the next person on the team is the BP, the big player who wins all the money.
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He's the actor.
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Yes.
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Yeah, he has to have acting skills.
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When he's there winning all the money, he has to act like it's the luckiest night of his life.
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Yeah.
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No mechanical skills.
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No, he just stands there and acts and collects money and has to play the part.
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And he too will be under a lot of pressure and scrutiny because everyone is watching him.
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They don't so much watch the dealer because he's just delete delivering cards.
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The player, they they'll all the attention goes to him because he's betting the money and he has to remain cool.
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Now, the cool thing about the computer cool the way we did it, the dealer who's dealing to the BP isn't part of the team.
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We time it so the relief dealer deals and gets all the heat.
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So the the dealer that actually deals the cards is it's just complete stiff, just works there.
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It's just the square.
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So the the the dealer who's on the team sets up the shoe, sticks it on there, and goes on break, and that's the end of that.
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And the way that all happens is the fourth member of the team called the captain.
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He sits at first base and he controls everything that happens.
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So the timing, which we can do a deep dive, works out that the relief dealer deals all the cards and loses all the money.
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Yes.
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Our dealers in the break room.
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Yeah, just kick back drinking his little coke.
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So it does interesting.
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And now there's another, those are the four main key players.
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Right.
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Now we have some other people in there.
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Absolutely.
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Describe them because they're they're key as well.
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Oh, yeah, everybody's important.
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Well, you have other players at the table, part of the team, because when the recorder is recording the cards, the captain controls everything.
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So he wants to make sure the players play at the right speed, not to play so fast that the recorder gets backlogged and stuff.
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That's where a mistake can happen.
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The other uh parts of the team are turns.
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When that dealer is false shuffling those six decks, we don't want anybody to see that shuffle.
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So you have people, turns, etc., to draw the attention away.
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One of the best turns is what I call a fake BP.
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He's at a table opposite the pit and he buys in$10,000 cash.
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What happens?
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All the attention, the sky, and the bosses go there.
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Then, if one of the bosses starts walking back towards the table, we have attractive woman cut into him, talk to him so he doesn't see the shuffle.
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There you go.
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Attractive meaning absolutely drop dead, gorgeous, and of course, a lot of exposure.
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And not like grandma, right?
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Not like not like grandma.
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Yeah, she is very attractive and she's dressed to the hilt, and your eyes can only sway one way.
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Now, speaking of grandma, if for some crazy reason you have some little old lady start watching this shuffle for God knows what reason, we have a turn cut into her so she doesn't see the shuffle.
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Bottom line, nobody sees the shuffle.
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And you know what?
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As a dealer, and you'll be able to testify about this, you remain calm and confident.
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Yes, you have to remain very calm and confident because you're doing something it's well, it is obvious if you're if you're burning it at table level, at table level, and it's just ballsy.
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So you gotta be confident in your skills.
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You really do.
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I like to say you gotta be cocky.
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I mean, you just gotta have know that your colonies are big enough to do this.
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I just happen to be so cocky enough, and he's not just shuffling one time, yeah.
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You gotta do all uh sky shuffling, which is interesting.
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When when I tell my side of this, uh my coolers, my version is so much different than theirs.
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I was lazy, they they were not, I was lazy, so but you get that advantage to hear both sides of not only from the dealer's perspective, but from a captain's perspective, and two or three different coolers will cover.
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So it's not just one.
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So this is really gonna be interesting but entertaining.
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You have a unique experience here because it wasn't just a cooler, it's coolers with S S S S.
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So it's that it wasn't just a one-shot deal on hey, look at fame and fortune, we got rich.
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It was numerous times, which really, if you think about it, is unheard of.
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We did all this maneuvering, shuffling, all this stuff under the close, watchful eye of the eye in the sky.
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Because you know, you know, the eye catches everything.
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That's a common misconception, isn't it?
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They don't catch everything.
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No, they don't catch much of anything, in my opinion.
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They catch it if they know what they're looking for.
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In our case, they didn't know what they were looking for, so they don't catch it.
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No, not the computer coolers, not the flash, not stacking the deck.
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Tonight's the night.
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Tonight we walk into a major Las Vegas casino with a hidden computer to destroy the game of blackjack.
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We walk in, we find our dealer, but there's a problem.
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There's squares at his table.
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It happens.
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So we sit down the two vacant chairs.
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Now, when you're gonna do something like a computer cooler, you can't do anything crazy.
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Like piss a guy off so he leaves the table.
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Some of our older techniques are not applicable here.
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Or give him$500 something to take a hike.
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That could come back and haunt you.
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So it's a waiting game.
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So we wait, we can't move the squares, they don't leave.
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Our dealer goes on break, comes back to another game, more squares.
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This goes on the entire night.
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We could never lock up the game.
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We come back the next night, yeah.
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Same problem.
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Could never lock up the game.
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Come back a third night.
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Third night the charm.
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No, it got very frustrating, and then our dealer has two days off.
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So it seems like an eternity before he goes back to work.
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Goes back to work, we walk into the casino, and he's just relieved a dealer, and the game is dead, nobody's there.
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We descend upon the table.
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We finally locked up the game.
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Thus it begins.
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So now I, as a captain, have to decide which shoe the recorder is going to record.
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Because if I decide a shoe that's too early, that's not gonna work.
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The timing's not gonna work, or if I decide a shoe too late, it's not gonna work.
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In 45 minutes, probably a dealer deal about three shoes.
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Sure.
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So I got to pick the right shoe.
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So now I figure this is a shoe.
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I give the signal, the recorder comes up.
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Now he doesn't sit down and play because it'd be too tough for him to play the game and record the cards.
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So I'm gonna pretend to be the recorder here.
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I come up, and this is me, and I'm gonna stand right over the captain.
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Now we talk because it would look, I'm sure you agree, I'm sure you agree, very strange if a guy was standing right over your shoulder for 15 minutes and not talk.
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It has to be with somebody exactly else, what you're right, it would stand out.
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And all the players at the table are talking.
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We all are together and we want the casino to know we're together, and we're all just grinders playing minimum minimum minimum.
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Yeah.
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So nobody's really watching our game.
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There's no action.
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Now, I, as a captain, looking at my watch, this is a timing thing, because we don't want our dealer to deal to the BP.
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We want the relief dealer who's not down with it.
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Exactly.
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We want to get the heat off the dealer because the dealer sets up the decks, and the relief dealer is to deal it out.
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So there's no heat on our our player.
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I mean our dealer.
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They're all they're on their break drinking their water.
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So exactly.
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So I'm constantly looking at my watch, trying to time this out.
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And if I think we're playing too fast, I go, slow down, slow down.
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If I think we're playing too slow, fast faster.
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Yeah, he wouldn't actually say that, he'd signal them.
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Yeah.
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But I like I like the idea you actually slow down.
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My number one job was to make sure there's no heat.
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Yeah.
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If I thought the casino somehow knew what we're doing, I give the scrub sign and we take off.
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Then the plastic cut card comes out.
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That's the end of the shoe.
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Now everything happens.
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We have a fake BP buy in for$10,000 cash at a table across the pit.
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All the attention goes there.
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The bosses, the eye in the sky.
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Our dealer now starts doing that sky shuffle, false shuffling those six decks of cards.
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If I said before, a boss starts walking back towards our table, we have attractive woman a turn, cut into him, talk to him, so he doesn't see the shoe and the shuffle.
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If a little old lady starts watching, or anybody, we have a turn, talk to them so they don't see the shuffle.
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When the relief dealer taps our dealer as he's false shuffling, I talk to her so she doesn't see the shuffle.
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Bottom line is you know, nobody really watches that shuffle.
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No one watches the shuffle.
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And what's interesting that makes this difficult for Dustin is that he knows the time period when the dealer is going to be there, but we don't know exactly when they're going to be there because they get hung up uh at the podium or they get asked a question in the pit, it stops it.
00:16:50.879 --> 00:16:55.519
They're not there every single time at the exact same moment they're supposed to be there.
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There's always leeway.
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Once the dealer starts false shuffling, or shuffling, actually, the six decks, he can't go on break until that shuffle procedure is once it's started, it has to be completed by that dealer.
00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:13.119
Our dealer's done false shuffling the cards.
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He gives me the plastic cut card, I cut the deck where he marked, he puts those cards into the shoe.
00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:22.880
Now he's gonna take off and go on break.
00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:23.279
Yeah.
00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:28.400
I get up and I say, hey guys, let's go to dinner.
00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:30.960
We want to vacate the table.
00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:38.880
So the BP who's been watching from a distance is gonna come up and take charge of the game.
00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:43.039
Now there is a vulnerability for a few seconds.
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Nobody's at that table.
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Yes.
00:17:46.799 --> 00:17:54.880
Someone could out of the blue, out of the corner of their eye, and it's not uncommon, rush up to a table and start playing or plop their money out there.
00:17:55.119 --> 00:17:58.799
That's a contingency that uh you have to kind of and that ruins everything.
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That's all for naught.
00:18:00.640 --> 00:18:02.960
So the BP walks up to the table.
00:18:03.039 --> 00:18:09.599
In my case, he does one of these to the boss, and basically he gets a private game, no matter what it takes.
00:18:09.759 --> 00:18:10.640
He gets a private game.
00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:14.640
That means nobody else can play at that game, and that's what we want.
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Yeah.
00:18:15.759 --> 00:18:18.559
BP now has two jobs.
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Number one, get the signals from the recorder so he knows how many hands to play and how many hit cards to take.
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And number two, stay cool.
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Stay very cool because everybody in that casino is going to be watching him.
00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:38.400
As yeah, as we touched on, he has to be an actor.
00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:43.599
He has to be able to act uh and not just be an actor, he has to be one under immense pressure.
00:18:43.839 --> 00:18:45.839
Yeah, you're sitting there going, well, they're just watching.
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What kind of pressure is that?
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Uh, it's a lot of pressure, knowing that you're a breaking the law, big time, you're out in the middle of everywhere breaking the law, everybody's watching.
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You break the law.
00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:08.079
That's a lot of pressure, and you got to be able to remain calm under that because he is the main focus of everything.
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Everybody who is anybody is watching him.
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And this isn't a two-minute thing.
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No, what 15, 20 minutes?
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Oh, at least, yeah.
00:19:16.640 --> 00:19:19.680
He's under this, he's under the gun for at least 20 minutes.
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I'd say 20 minutes.
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And the great thing about RBP, what he did to get the signals, he got changed, got$25 chips, and after he went around, he would turn around and throw it into the crowd.
00:19:34.960 --> 00:19:36.319
That makes him look like a sucker.
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Big sucker.
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But guess who's in that crowd?
00:19:39.440 --> 00:19:40.400
The recorder.
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And that's how he gets his signals.
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Looks very natural.
00:19:44.480 --> 00:19:46.640
Instead of turning around like this, yeah.
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That would be a towel.
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Yeah, that's that was brilliant.
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Turn the whole body off, interacting with the crowd.
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I mean, it suckers written across his forehead.
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That's what you want.
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You want to have everyone dismiss him.
00:20:00.240 --> 00:20:06.000
However, there was a problem and a big problem with this BP.
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He was no Mother Teresa.
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So we were concerned.
00:20:11.200 --> 00:20:15.279
He's the one gonna be walking out with all our money.
00:20:15.920 --> 00:20:19.920
Will he reunite at the rendezvous point or not?
00:20:20.400 --> 00:20:22.880
And I'll tell you more about that in a minute.
00:20:23.680 --> 00:20:28.960
So into the computer cooler, plastic cut card is out.
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Now the recorder gets the hell out of the casino.
00:20:32.720 --> 00:20:34.720
Because if they search him, they got him.
00:20:35.519 --> 00:20:36.640
They got that device on him.
00:20:36.799 --> 00:20:39.200
Oh yeah, he's going down big time.
00:20:40.240 --> 00:20:46.960
Then the BP goes to the casino cage, cashes out the chips for cash.
00:20:47.200 --> 00:20:49.119
Now, this is a critical point.
00:20:49.440 --> 00:20:55.599
Because if the casino suspects something, they're gonna interrogate them right then and then they will put everything on hold.
00:20:55.680 --> 00:21:01.440
And yes, they can stall or flat out say not yet and hold your money.
00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:02.720
I mean, they can do that.
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If they have suspicion of anything, they can with they can hold your money.
00:21:07.359 --> 00:21:18.000
And if they want to, you know, in a real world situation, if for whatever reason the casino holds your money, yeah, you can call up gaming control, now you got to wait for them to show up and all this other, it's a big hassle.
00:21:18.079 --> 00:21:20.880
But we can not pay for whatever reason.
00:21:21.039 --> 00:21:25.680
And if you want to bring in the gaming police, they'll solve it, but you still don't get your money.
00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:28.799
So yeah, that's a good point.
00:21:29.200 --> 00:21:32.559
And this is back in the 80s, no cell phones, so we don't have any communication.
00:21:32.640 --> 00:21:34.799
Yeah, we don't know what's happening with the BP.
00:21:35.519 --> 00:21:42.000
And after we leave the table, the players, we all meet back at a house.
00:21:42.799 --> 00:21:44.799
So we don't know what's going on.
00:21:45.039 --> 00:21:50.640
Now, I did not immediately go to that house because I knew this was going to take some time.
00:21:50.880 --> 00:21:52.720
Yeah, that's a lot of money to cash out.
00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:59.759
So I drive up to the house slowly, looking around, looking for anything suspicious, activity or car.
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Don't see any.
00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:04.400
So I knock on the door, doors open.
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The first thing I blurt out is, Is Iggy here?
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Iggy was the BP.
00:22:11.279 --> 00:22:12.720
The person who won all the money.
00:22:13.200 --> 00:22:14.960
Now I'll tell you a little more about Iggy.
00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:16.559
Oh boy.
00:22:16.720 --> 00:22:17.920
He's a lot older than us.
00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:19.440
He's probably in his 60s.
00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:23.200
And he was telling us stories about his life.
00:22:23.359 --> 00:22:27.200
He told us the FBI was looking for him, some kind of stock scam.
00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:28.720
Well, that's not good.
00:22:29.119 --> 00:22:32.720
And then he told us when he's younger, him and his partner got in an argument.
00:22:32.960 --> 00:22:34.400
So his partner shoots him in the gut.
00:22:34.640 --> 00:22:35.200
Oh, Jesus.
00:22:35.359 --> 00:22:39.359
And Iggy's driving himself to the hospital holding his guts in.
00:22:39.680 --> 00:22:42.079
Well, this is the kind of guy you want to introduce the whole family to do.
00:22:42.319 --> 00:22:44.400
That's the one you want to bring home for supper, yeah.
00:22:44.640 --> 00:22:47.119
So we did have our concerns.
00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:49.599
So me and a few other guys were talking.
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We thought, you know what?
00:22:51.839 --> 00:22:56.400
Let's tell Iggy this is the first computer cooler.
00:22:56.720 --> 00:23:02.880
But we have another one that if he does good on this one, he can be the BP on that one.
00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:05.920
And we think the score is gonna be about a million dollars.
00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:07.279
There's a hook.
00:23:07.839 --> 00:23:08.319
Yep.
00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:10.880
That'd get anyone going, hmm.
00:23:11.279 --> 00:23:15.279
Yeah, if I'm gonna run, am I gonna run with maybe six figures or a million dollars?
00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:17.359
Add another figure to that list.
00:23:17.599 --> 00:23:18.160
Oh, yeah.
00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:20.240
Definitely makes you think twice.
00:23:20.559 --> 00:23:22.720
So we're all at the house.
00:23:23.279 --> 00:23:28.000
And you can feel the tension because we don't know what happened to Iggy.
00:23:28.559 --> 00:23:29.279
Is he just late?
00:23:29.599 --> 00:23:31.039
You know, making sure he's not fouled?
00:23:31.119 --> 00:23:31.599
That's cool.
00:23:31.839 --> 00:23:32.880
Did he get popped?
00:23:33.279 --> 00:23:36.079
And the next knock on the door is gonna be the cops?
00:23:36.319 --> 00:23:38.160
Or did he take off with our money?
00:23:38.480 --> 00:23:39.440
We don't know.
00:23:40.240 --> 00:23:42.160
Then a knock on the door.
00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:46.400
We all look at each other because we don't know who's on the other side of the door.
00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:48.559
Who's behind door number one?
00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:57.759
So the main guy opens the door and here's the first time for everything.
00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:06.799
It's Iggy with a brown paper baggy marches into the kitchen and pours out$150,000 in cash onto the table.
00:24:07.039 --> 00:24:11.119
And we celebrate like we just won the Super Bowl.
00:24:11.359 --> 00:24:12.720
Well, yeah, definitely.
00:24:12.880 --> 00:24:17.359
That's a hell of a score and a lot of sweating, but the money was worth it.
00:24:17.599 --> 00:24:23.440
Yeah, I mean, I was down with a lot of plays, but this one I'm gonna remember to rapture.
00:24:23.920 --> 00:24:26.799
That wasn't the only computer cooler I was down with.
00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:30.640
This next computer cooler was in a different casino.
00:24:31.039 --> 00:24:35.119
I was the captain, and I recruited the dealer.
00:24:35.279 --> 00:24:38.880
This dealer I had complete confidence and trust in.
00:24:39.279 --> 00:24:43.759
This dealer has been sitting next to me this entire podcast.
00:24:43.920 --> 00:24:46.240
And it is, of course, the Kaiser.
00:24:46.480 --> 00:24:47.839
It was me, I have to admit.
00:24:47.920 --> 00:24:49.200
Yes, it was me.
00:24:50.319 --> 00:24:52.480
Do you remember how I recruited you?
00:24:52.799 --> 00:24:55.039
No, Texas, I really don't.
00:24:55.279 --> 00:25:06.960
I actually believe it or not, with my memory, I do kind of I remember going over to your house and telling you now this is big time because you're not gonna be just involved with me, you're gonna be involved with the big guy.
00:25:07.279 --> 00:25:10.559
If it goes south, it's not gonna be good.
00:25:11.200 --> 00:25:18.480
I remember you telling me about other computer coolers you were doing, but uh I don't remember how you recruited me, but that's interesting.
00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:20.559
You just came over and said, Hey, you're it.
00:25:20.799 --> 00:25:29.519
Yeah, actually, if you wanted to do it, and I I'm sure you said yes, because you knew it was I didn't want to, but you had a good friendship.
00:25:29.680 --> 00:25:34.720
I decided I will help you this once, or you donated all your money to charity.
00:25:35.599 --> 00:25:39.599
I donated all my money to charity, me, yeah.
00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:40.480
That's interesting.
00:25:40.720 --> 00:25:45.200
I did not remember that, but yeah, I'm sure I didn't put up much of a fuss or even ask a whole lot of questions.
00:25:45.279 --> 00:25:48.160
I just pretty much jumped at it, knowing me.
00:25:48.720 --> 00:25:55.599
Now, when I poached you, your favorite word about being touched, that was awesome.
00:25:55.920 --> 00:25:59.680
Being the dealer for a computer cooler, did you have concerns?
00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:00.799
Not really.
00:26:01.039 --> 00:26:05.920
I mean, you basically touched on what it was all about, and it sounded very intriguing.
00:26:06.240 --> 00:26:15.759
And knowing that being under that kind of scrutiny was a little unnerving, I had uh I had the balls to do it.
00:26:15.839 --> 00:26:22.319
I was just under indestructible at the time, I think it was, you know, to prove the point to me that I could do stuff like that.
00:26:22.559 --> 00:26:25.519
So yeah, I had no reservations, I just jumped right into it.
00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:27.519
Yeah, I actually don't remember.
00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:32.640
Did we have practice sessions where you got together with everybody and kind of knew what was going on?
00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:44.400
I vaguely remember one, maybe two, where the team was together just to work out the rhythm of the the whole play because they've already done uh coolers before.
00:26:44.480 --> 00:26:45.920
Yes, some of them have.
00:26:46.160 --> 00:26:49.200
So our shuffle was different than what they were used to.
00:26:49.359 --> 00:26:51.680
Each shuffle takes more time than the other.
00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:57.279
Um my shuffle with the casino I was at was a little bit convoluted.
00:26:57.359 --> 00:27:04.319
It had a lot of moving parts, and to do as what they did in the first cooler and do the sky shuffle, which is very effective.
00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:06.319
I took a huge shortcut.
00:27:06.799 --> 00:27:07.920
A huge one.
00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:23.920
You're, I think we're supposed to bring the cards out all deck, break them into halves, and then on one of the halves, you cut off some of that, and then again shuffling, then put them in over here, and then you tell somebody here, and you go over there, and you go to lunch, you come back, very involved shuffle.
00:27:24.079 --> 00:27:28.480
And I don't want to do all that because I'm pretty much a lazy guy.
00:27:28.799 --> 00:27:35.359
So I brought the cards out, brought them and caught them in half, took the top half of the first stack I'm working on.
00:27:35.519 --> 00:27:37.839
I think I did one, maybe two sky shuffles.
00:27:38.000 --> 00:27:55.359
I was bored with it, stacked it all back up and threw it in the shoe, which it's really very balls, really ballsy move to do because if anyone was watching, they would be totally on top of me and tell me I was a bad boy.
00:27:55.680 --> 00:27:58.799
But my thinking of this is a no one's watching the shuffle.
00:27:58.960 --> 00:28:00.319
Yeah, we had a lot of turns and decides.
00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:02.400
A lot of turns, no one's watching the shuffle.
00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:08.960
Plus, the fact is, if someone were to look over, watch the shuffle, then watch it, no one pays attention.
00:28:09.119 --> 00:28:12.880
Bosses, surveillance, I mean they record everything, but they don't really pay attention.
00:28:13.759 --> 00:28:16.799
And they look over and they say, okay, he's doing that.
00:28:16.880 --> 00:28:18.640
And they go over here and they come back.
00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:20.160
Oh, he's still doing something.
00:28:20.319 --> 00:28:21.359
He's doing something.
00:28:21.440 --> 00:28:24.160
If the shuffle is still going on, you look back, or they're in the shoe.
00:28:24.319 --> 00:28:30.240
Well, there's a lapse of time there that they're not gonna connect the dots that but it's only been 30 seconds.
00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:33.440
It just doesn't connect that with bosses, as I said earlier.
00:28:33.599 --> 00:28:38.319
Bosses just they're just there, you know, they're not gonna pay that close of attention.
00:28:38.480 --> 00:28:49.599
So I opted for the ballsy move rather than the all-in-depth false shuffling, because that to me was just not my style.
00:28:50.000 --> 00:28:54.480
So you do the shuffle, and I don't know if I cut, but somebody cut.
00:28:54.559 --> 00:28:54.960
Uh-huh.
00:28:55.200 --> 00:28:58.559
You put the cards into the this uh into the shoe.
00:28:58.720 --> 00:29:00.000
Now you go on, Bray.
00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:07.119
Well, here's the interesting part, and as I spoke about in your situation, is the dealer wasn't on time.
00:29:08.079 --> 00:29:16.640
So I had to put the the cards in the shoe, which I would normally do, and now I have to start dealing because my relief is not there.
00:29:16.799 --> 00:29:19.039
She got hung up at the podium or went to the wrong game.
00:29:19.200 --> 00:29:21.440
Who knows why she wasn't there?
00:29:21.519 --> 00:29:23.519
But I had to deal two rounds myself.
00:29:23.759 --> 00:29:24.880
You know, I don't remember.
00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:28.559
Yeah, I remember that because I was a little pissed off that my dealer was late.
00:29:28.720 --> 00:29:34.319
I usually don't care if the dealer's late because it's only a couple minutes, but in this space, I did because I'm dealing my own stack.
00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:36.400
So you're actually dealing to the BP.
00:29:36.559 --> 00:29:38.000
I am actually dealing to the BP.
00:29:38.079 --> 00:29:40.480
You get a big walk into the break room.
00:29:40.640 --> 00:29:43.440
Were you nervous or you felt No, I wasn't nervous at all.
00:29:43.519 --> 00:29:46.559
My job was done and I wasn't arrested yet, so I knew I was good.
00:29:46.799 --> 00:29:52.720
You know, nobody came up and you know, asked me or pulled me off to the site, beat the shit out of me, or anything like that.
00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:54.240
So I knew I was pretty good at her.
00:29:54.400 --> 00:30:07.039
But the one thing that really stands out, out of the blue, one of the foremen walked up to me, got right up to my ear, and says, That looked awful familiar, and then walked away.
00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:09.200
I was like, What?
00:30:10.400 --> 00:30:15.359
Yeah, I had no idea what she was actually referring to.
00:30:15.839 --> 00:30:24.480
She didn't elaborate, she didn't say anything, just gave that one little sentence, and my interpretation was simply this.
00:30:24.799 --> 00:30:29.440
She was involved at one point or another in a similar operation.
00:30:29.839 --> 00:30:34.960
Because it, I mean, it pretty much, no matter who's doing it, it's pretty much the same thing.
00:30:35.119 --> 00:30:38.240
Oh, yeah, it has a pattern, it has a shape of it, it has a pattern.
00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:42.319
So those words resonated with me, like, huh.
00:30:42.640 --> 00:30:46.880
And I'm going, oh guys, she's got an idea of what's going on.
00:30:47.200 --> 00:30:51.519
Now the little hairs on the back of my neck are starting to stand out.
00:30:51.599 --> 00:30:54.240
Going, is she gonna be a good girl?
00:30:54.480 --> 00:30:56.799
Or is she gonna be a bad girl?
00:30:57.200 --> 00:31:04.400
I say girl, but she was a lady, and but the way she presented it to me was this let me know that she knew something.
00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:11.839
I have a shorty for you.
00:31:12.079 --> 00:31:12.559
Cool.
00:31:12.880 --> 00:31:22.960
This is a little bit different because I'm not sure how a lot of you would reflect upon this, but it's a long night in the casino.
00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:30.160
I'm bored, I have a single deck game, and I said, Well, I gotta do something that amuses me.
00:31:30.319 --> 00:31:31.519
And you don't have any agents, right?
00:31:31.680 --> 00:31:33.119
No agents, it's just a dead night.
00:31:33.200 --> 00:31:38.000
I'm actually working with Sonnox, no money coming in, just working.
00:31:38.480 --> 00:31:40.559
Nine to five guy, and it sucks.
00:31:41.039 --> 00:31:43.279
I need something to amuse myself.
00:31:43.440 --> 00:31:50.640
Now I just got to the table, and the first couple hands out, I noticed something very unusual for a single deck.
00:31:50.799 --> 00:31:55.519
I had at the end of it, it was my second hand, maybe my third hand, so I'm out of cards.
00:31:55.680 --> 00:31:58.160
I had all four aces on the table.
00:31:58.319 --> 00:31:59.039
All four of them.
00:31:59.200 --> 00:32:01.440
I go, Well, that's unusual.
00:32:01.920 --> 00:32:06.000
What if I keep those aces out of play?
00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:08.960
Okay, let's give that a shot.
00:32:09.119 --> 00:32:17.519
So I collect the cards, do my shuffles, and when you're a dealer and you hand the cards out to be cut, they insert a plastic card.
00:32:17.839 --> 00:32:22.400
You can judge, and you also remember how people and where they cut the cards.
00:32:22.559 --> 00:32:22.799
Yeah.
00:32:23.039 --> 00:32:27.839
And you try to go around the table so everyone gets a chance to cut the cards.
00:32:28.400 --> 00:32:37.440
What's interesting is that uh I bring up the aces, I put them in a location to where the person who's gonna cut the cards will cut them out of play.
00:32:37.599 --> 00:32:42.240
Yeah, so in a sense, from the top of the deck to the bottom, which we'll never get to.
00:32:42.559 --> 00:32:43.200
No problem.
00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:45.039
Deal the cards out, huh?
00:32:45.119 --> 00:32:45.839
No aces.
00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:46.480
That was fun.
00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:47.599
Now we start again.
00:32:47.680 --> 00:32:51.200
Well, I already know where the aces are, so I shuffle and everything else.
00:32:51.359 --> 00:32:54.880
Put them in a spot where the next person's gonna cut them out of play.
00:32:55.200 --> 00:32:56.880
Again, I do this.
00:32:57.200 --> 00:32:59.599
This continues on for an hour.
00:32:59.839 --> 00:33:00.400
Oh wow.
00:33:00.559 --> 00:33:09.920
Okay, not knowing that I would be able to keep them out of play that long, but it just so happened that everyone was playing by the rules and cutting where they always cut.
00:33:10.160 --> 00:33:14.480
People, creatures are a habit, they do the same thing over and over again.
00:33:14.640 --> 00:33:19.119
So if I give it to Bob, I know Bob's gonna cut high or Susie's gonna cut low.
00:33:19.200 --> 00:33:23.359
Yeah, so I put the aces in a spot where they're gonna get cut to the bottom of the deck.
00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:30.319
So nobody can get a blackjack, no one got a blackjack, no one saw an ace for an hour, nobody saw any ace.
00:33:30.640 --> 00:33:33.119
And I figured by then it would blow up.
00:33:33.359 --> 00:33:36.240
Yeah, some you know, someone's gonna do what they want to do and it takes it out.
00:33:36.319 --> 00:33:37.680
But it was fun while it lasted.
00:33:37.839 --> 00:33:45.200
Nah, everyone did what they're supposed to do, and I kept them out of play for the whole time, and no one noticed, no one paid attention, no one griped.
00:33:45.359 --> 00:33:47.839
And usually you get that, well, I haven't had a blackjack in an hour, right?
00:33:48.079 --> 00:33:51.039
Now, no, they didn't notice that that was so cool.
00:33:51.200 --> 00:33:53.920
Now you think, oh my god, you cheated real people.
00:33:54.319 --> 00:33:57.359
Well, not really, they cheated themselves, they cut the cards.
00:33:59.440 --> 00:34:01.200
So it was an interesting hour.
00:34:01.359 --> 00:34:10.159
Then there was the only time I did it, and it just it was one of those self-fulfilling I can do this, yeah, and I did, and it made me happy.
00:34:10.480 --> 00:34:14.079
So uh, you know, you just do things because you can.
00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:24.320
Now that was the first computer cooler you were a dealer, but there was a second which was pretty much different than the six-deck cooler we're talking about.
00:34:24.559 --> 00:34:28.719
Yeah, this was uh the second one was I have to say my favorite.
00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:32.000
This one was actually my favorite cooler.
00:34:32.159 --> 00:34:37.280
Well, I only did two, so it was almost a third, but I got fired.
00:34:37.440 --> 00:34:40.719
Um well, after the third, but anyway, the second one was best.
00:34:40.960 --> 00:34:42.719
It was a single deck cooler.
00:34:42.880 --> 00:34:50.320
So versus the six, I mean the eighth deck of all the hands, and we get mini rounds and big cash.
00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:52.239
This is a single deck.
00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:54.559
We only get three rounds.
00:34:54.960 --> 00:34:59.760
It happened to be in a place with a two thousand dollar limit, and that's the reason we get it.
00:34:59.840 --> 00:35:05.280
Yes, as a high limit battery, because a single deck on a low limit is it's just it's not worth the risk.
00:35:05.519 --> 00:35:07.519
Going on a date by yourself, it's just not worth it.
00:35:07.840 --> 00:35:09.519
Kind of boring, and there's no event.
00:35:10.239 --> 00:35:11.280
It's not good.
00:35:11.360 --> 00:35:12.719
So that was the main factor.
00:35:12.880 --> 00:35:14.719
It was a single deck with a high limit.
00:35:14.880 --> 00:35:20.000
Because if we can get three hands at$2,000 a crack, that's a lot of money going out the door.
00:35:20.239 --> 00:35:21.599
That's$6,000 at least.
00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:26.239
At least, maybe a double down or a blackjack if we got lucky with the arrangement of the cards.
00:35:26.480 --> 00:35:27.039
Yeah, exactly.
00:35:27.119 --> 00:35:29.679
And so you can only it's only a guessing game what is going to come out.
00:35:29.760 --> 00:35:32.320
We got lucky, three rounds, three hands each.
00:35:32.480 --> 00:35:33.599
Wow, that's optimum.
00:35:33.679 --> 00:35:37.039
Plus, I had two uh double down, two double downs in there.
00:35:37.280 --> 00:35:45.119
So it was a it was a very score, but it was a totally different environment because the rules are things are totally different.
00:35:45.360 --> 00:35:47.280
It's a single deck, Sky Shuffle.
00:35:47.360 --> 00:35:52.639
There's our sky shuffle, shuffle, shuffle, strip, strip, shuffle, and that was it.
00:35:52.800 --> 00:35:54.639
Offer the cut, cut, we're done.
00:35:54.800 --> 00:35:58.159
The deck, the deck is now stacked, and we're ready to go.
00:35:58.239 --> 00:36:02.400
BP squeezes in now, unlike his, where they got up and went to lunch.
00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:05.920
My people stayed there because this is a very busy casino.
00:36:06.079 --> 00:36:06.639
Very busy.
00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:10.000
If a seat opened up, 18 people would be fighting over it.
00:36:10.639 --> 00:36:17.519
So my people, once that money hit the table, they go, Whoa, you know, I don't want to mess this guy up.
00:36:17.599 --> 00:36:18.800
He's been serious cash.
00:36:18.960 --> 00:36:21.280
So they just don't play and they lock up my chairs.
00:36:21.679 --> 00:36:25.679
My team, they just back out and watch for three rounds.
00:36:26.159 --> 00:36:28.320
And that just sounds really easy.
00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:29.119
Yeah, simple.
00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:32.719
You do all three hands at 21 and$6,000 a win.
00:36:32.960 --> 00:36:34.480
What could go wrong?
00:36:34.800 --> 00:36:38.079
Well, we don't have enough money.
00:36:38.320 --> 00:36:39.840
I mean, he's been talking about chips.
00:36:40.159 --> 00:36:40.639
Chips.
00:36:40.800 --> 00:36:45.519
I mean, we only have roughly six thousand dollars in black on the game.
00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:48.639
Okay, now he comes up and does the money plays.
00:36:48.800 --> 00:36:50.480
There's your six thousand right there.
00:36:50.559 --> 00:36:51.599
I'm broke.
00:36:51.840 --> 00:36:53.039
I gotta get more money.
00:36:53.199 --> 00:36:55.360
So he comes out and bets two thousand of the crack.
00:36:55.440 --> 00:37:00.159
We don't get the money yet until he wins all three hands again with a double down in there.
00:37:00.239 --> 00:37:01.760
That's eight thousand dollars.
00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:07.519
This particular house had a very strict procedure when it came to having fills on the game.
00:37:08.480 --> 00:37:17.199
When the money comes to the table, security will bring it and will stand behind you until you take the cards in your hand and put them in the discard rack.
00:37:17.360 --> 00:37:18.880
Then he'll put the cards on the table.
00:37:19.119 --> 00:37:20.559
And if that would have happened, what would happen?
00:37:20.800 --> 00:37:21.840
The whole cooler would have been done.
00:37:23.280 --> 00:37:27.360
So I guarded those cards with my life.
00:37:27.679 --> 00:37:31.119
Because I've already got a little money, I want a whole lot more.
00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:34.320
Security guard would not put the money on the table.
00:37:34.559 --> 00:37:38.960
So now I gotta I gotta be ballsy and overstep my boundaries as a dealer.
00:37:39.119 --> 00:37:40.719
I'm yelling at him, put the money on the table.
00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:46.559
I gotta pay these hands, I gotta pay the bets, put the money, put the guards, I got the money on the table, and I'm arguing with the guy.
00:37:46.880 --> 00:37:51.199
What bewilders me to this day is why the Ford did not get involved.
00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:54.800
Because they're all watching, they're all there watching, but no one jumped in.
00:37:54.880 --> 00:37:57.920
They're just letting me boss this guy around, which is great.
00:37:58.159 --> 00:38:01.440
So he finally gives in, gives me the chips on the table.
00:38:01.599 --> 00:38:03.039
I go out and pay the bet.
00:38:03.440 --> 00:38:03.920
Fine.
00:38:04.079 --> 00:38:09.280
Next round, second round, again, he gets three hands, two thousand a pop.
00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:11.440
Wow, with another double down.
00:38:11.599 --> 00:38:12.239
He wins again.
00:38:12.400 --> 00:38:13.280
I don't have enough money.
00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:13.760
Guess what?
00:38:13.920 --> 00:38:15.440
Bob's gonna come back with more money.
00:38:15.679 --> 00:38:17.280
We go through the same argument.
00:38:17.519 --> 00:38:18.079
Oh, wow.
00:38:18.320 --> 00:38:19.280
He says, put the card.
00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:20.800
I said, I can't, I gotta pay the bets.
00:38:20.880 --> 00:38:22.719
I'm in the middle of a hand, I can't do it.
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:26.159
And so that was brilliant thinking, by the way.
00:38:26.400 --> 00:38:27.599
I had to argue with him.
00:38:27.679 --> 00:38:30.559
And again, why the bosses didn't step in, I don't know.
00:38:30.639 --> 00:38:31.440
They should have.
00:38:31.599 --> 00:38:32.719
That's their job.
00:38:32.960 --> 00:38:34.159
But I I ran into the ball.
00:38:34.320 --> 00:38:35.760
Everybody's not down with it.
00:38:35.920 --> 00:38:37.280
No, just uh just me.
00:38:37.360 --> 00:38:42.079
And I had to control this situation, and for whatever reason, they just didn't get involved.
00:38:42.159 --> 00:38:44.400
I guess I was overpowering, I don't know.
00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:47.039
So finally he puts the money down.
00:38:47.119 --> 00:38:48.239
We pay off the bet.
00:38:48.400 --> 00:38:50.159
Now, here's the other kicker.
00:38:50.400 --> 00:38:54.880
That's two rounds, single deck, shuffle.
00:38:55.119 --> 00:38:58.000
You're done, especially at this level.
00:38:58.480 --> 00:39:00.559
You don't want to squeeze out that third hand.
00:39:00.719 --> 00:39:01.519
But what did you do?
00:39:01.679 --> 00:39:02.880
I squeezed that hand on.
00:39:03.119 --> 00:39:05.440
I fired those cards out so fast.
00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:08.800
As soon as that money was paid, I put right back out again.
00:39:08.960 --> 00:39:17.599
Now, third round, again, 3,000 a crack for three hands, or 2,000 for three hands, with another double down.
00:39:17.760 --> 00:39:18.800
He has a 12.
00:39:19.039 --> 00:39:21.039
And we're talking about the BP, the BP money.
00:39:21.199 --> 00:39:22.800
He's got a$2,000 bet.
00:39:22.880 --> 00:39:24.239
He has a 12.
00:39:24.719 --> 00:39:26.880
He flips up the 12.
00:39:27.039 --> 00:39:28.480
I want to double down.
00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:29.440
Huh?
00:39:30.079 --> 00:39:37.519
No one's gonna double down on 12 with a$2,000 bet, which if he's arrogant enough, he'll do it.
00:39:37.599 --> 00:39:38.880
He's got he's got the money.
00:39:39.039 --> 00:39:40.480
Why not be a little cocky?
00:39:41.599 --> 00:39:49.360
He's and now our procedure is to on a busting hand the deal the up card, I mean the double down card face up.
00:39:49.760 --> 00:39:52.800
Because if it's a losing hand, we want the money now.
00:39:52.960 --> 00:39:54.320
That's the procedure.
00:39:54.559 --> 00:39:58.159
So my BP goes, I want to face down.
00:39:58.719 --> 00:40:00.079
Now I'm for loop two.
00:40:00.239 --> 00:40:04.079
Now I gotta turn around and go, he wants his double down on S12 face down.
00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:08.079
And they're all discussing it.
00:40:08.239 --> 00:40:09.519
Finally, yeah, go ahead.
00:40:09.679 --> 00:40:15.840
So we put his double down card face down, which is totally against the procedure, but they made the call, not me.
00:40:15.920 --> 00:40:16.800
That's out of my league.
00:40:17.039 --> 00:40:24.320
Face down, and why did he double on 12 with a 2,000 bet, making it a$4,000 bet?
00:40:24.639 --> 00:40:25.280
Why?
00:40:25.760 --> 00:40:27.280
Well, of course, he wins.
00:40:27.440 --> 00:40:33.920
We smoke settles, bosses are coming over, mumbling on the game, and one comes up and starts talking to me.
00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:35.519
And I says, God, I it was bizarre.
00:40:35.599 --> 00:40:36.559
But you know what?
00:40:36.880 --> 00:40:39.760
What why would he double on 12?
00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:41.280
And why would he want to face down?
00:40:41.360 --> 00:40:43.039
I mean, that's his that's just totally right.
00:40:43.119 --> 00:40:44.880
He goes, Yeah, that is totally right.
00:40:45.039 --> 00:40:46.079
And he wandered off.
00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:47.599
Another seed's planted.
00:40:47.679 --> 00:40:49.440
What now they're focusing on this 12.
00:40:49.679 --> 00:40:51.679
What's what did he do here?
00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:54.480
And uh win blew under the wire, too.
00:40:54.559 --> 00:41:00.320
It was awesome with best play, and I was I was adrenaline rush ballsy that day.
00:41:00.480 --> 00:41:05.760
I I did everything I wasn't supposed to do as a dealer and got away with it.
00:41:07.760 --> 00:41:08.559
It was great.
00:41:08.639 --> 00:41:12.639
I I think we won$24,000 in three rounds.
00:41:12.800 --> 00:41:15.840
I broke just about every procedure I could think about breaking.
00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:20.320
And for the odd part is they let me, and that's what I don't understand.
00:41:20.400 --> 00:41:22.239
I just took control of the situation.
00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:29.360
I don't know if the bosses were shell-shocked or what, but I'm very voisterous and I come across strong.
00:41:29.599 --> 00:41:31.280
So apparently I scared the shit out of him.
00:41:31.360 --> 00:41:33.039
I don't know what it was, but I took control.
00:41:33.119 --> 00:41:36.559
I made the security guard put money on the table when he wasn't supposed to.
00:41:36.719 --> 00:41:38.559
The cards are supposed to be in the rack.
00:41:38.719 --> 00:41:44.000
I got, you know, I got everyone dancing to my commands while I had the meek little former back there.
00:41:44.239 --> 00:41:45.280
Okay, okay.
00:41:45.760 --> 00:41:46.559
I don't get that.
00:41:46.639 --> 00:41:49.679
That it totally to this day, I don't understand why they did not do their job.
00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:53.039
I'm glad they didn't, but they let me do mine.
00:41:53.840 --> 00:41:57.840
To sum up, and I'm really impressed with this.
00:41:58.239 --> 00:42:05.679
Under fire, he broke every rule and got away with it, and then was never questioned.
00:42:06.079 --> 00:42:08.559
Never questioned, no heat whatsoever.
00:42:08.880 --> 00:42:10.400
That's perfection.
00:42:10.639 --> 00:42:13.039
You know, I I don't know how I got away with it.
00:42:13.119 --> 00:42:13.599
I really don't.
00:42:13.679 --> 00:42:14.480
To this day, I don't know.
00:42:14.559 --> 00:42:21.760
I think it was just it was the confidence that I extruded and took control.
00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:23.920
No one else knew really know what to do.
00:42:24.320 --> 00:42:25.440
I just took it from them.
00:42:25.599 --> 00:42:26.320
I took the control.
00:42:26.480 --> 00:42:33.840
The bosses should have stepped in, put the cards down, put the money and pay the bets, and it would have been all done.
00:42:35.119 --> 00:42:43.440
If I put that down, I'm giving up a whole lot of money, at least uh you know, about oh I'd say about 12,000, 13,000.
00:42:44.159 --> 00:42:48.400
You know, that's a lot of money to just put in a discard rack.
00:42:48.960 --> 00:42:53.679
But if they would have done their job properly, that would have gone one round.
00:42:54.159 --> 00:42:59.519
Because as soon as that first payoff came out, those cards should have been in the rack done.
00:42:59.920 --> 00:43:06.000
Now, another thing, the BP was young, yeah, he wasn't old, and he was not a known player.
00:43:06.079 --> 00:43:09.039
It's not like the BP could influence the bosses at all.
00:43:09.360 --> 00:43:10.000
No, he could.
00:43:10.079 --> 00:43:13.280
He had no he had no power, he was just some kid with money.
00:43:13.440 --> 00:43:27.039
So he could object to all he wants and they just roll over him because the casino is the ultimate boss, they do what they want, and so the BP being unknown off the street with some cash is not going to override our procedures.
00:43:27.440 --> 00:43:31.679
Only I can override the procedures, apparently.
00:43:31.840 --> 00:43:34.960
Yeah, I was shocked I got away with it, and I'm glad I did.
00:43:35.119 --> 00:43:48.559
Oh wow, but I did literally take control of that game, so it's very possible Kaiser is the only person in history to do two computer coolers as the dealer.
00:43:48.880 --> 00:43:50.320
Yeah, that's a good point.
00:43:50.960 --> 00:43:56.400
Usually, after your first one, you're out to pasture and you get to play with the other boys on the other side of the table.
00:43:56.559 --> 00:43:57.119
Nah.
00:43:58.480 --> 00:43:58.880
Yeah.
00:43:59.039 --> 00:43:59.760
We try to throw.
00:44:00.239 --> 00:44:01.360
Time, but that was a fail.
00:44:01.599 --> 00:44:05.360
Yeah, that was I don't know we're talking, I know we're talking about, but we tried.
00:44:05.519 --> 00:44:06.719
But yeah, I did too.
00:44:06.800 --> 00:44:08.400
Yeah, that's what I did.
00:44:09.679 --> 00:44:13.519
It's uh it was quite the adventure, I have to say it.
00:44:13.679 --> 00:44:15.280
Uh you know, I have to say this.
00:44:15.440 --> 00:44:16.800
I was glad I was poached.
00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:18.559
Don't tally have that.
00:44:24.079 --> 00:44:25.599
Well, I got a good one for you today.
00:44:25.840 --> 00:44:28.320
Okay, it's a little different, it's not cards.
00:44:28.639 --> 00:44:28.960
Oh.
00:44:30.159 --> 00:44:31.280
It's a treasure tread chest.
00:44:31.679 --> 00:44:32.960
I have a little chest here.
00:44:33.119 --> 00:44:34.559
There's a prediction in here.
00:44:35.119 --> 00:44:36.320
We're not gonna read it yet.
00:44:36.559 --> 00:44:39.679
Okay, but I have three items in here.
00:44:39.920 --> 00:44:43.039
Before I tell you the items, do you believe in free will?
00:44:43.360 --> 00:44:43.840
Sure.
00:44:44.159 --> 00:44:45.920
Okay, we'll test it.
00:44:46.239 --> 00:44:51.760
First item I have is a gold coin, represents financial freedom.
00:44:52.159 --> 00:44:56.719
Second item I have is a tie clip, holds people down.
00:44:56.880 --> 00:45:00.800
And the third item is a key, unlocks knowledge.
00:45:01.119 --> 00:45:02.559
Oh, yes.
00:45:02.880 --> 00:45:03.360
Nice.
00:45:03.599 --> 00:45:05.519
You're full of not knowledge, right?
00:45:06.159 --> 00:45:07.360
Full of something.
00:45:08.079 --> 00:45:09.360
I won't argue.
00:45:09.599 --> 00:45:10.800
I won't argue.
00:45:11.119 --> 00:45:11.440
Okay.
00:45:11.840 --> 00:45:12.159
Okay.
00:45:12.400 --> 00:45:15.440
What I want you to do, I'll stand up, but okay.
00:45:15.679 --> 00:45:17.360
I'll be partially in frame.
00:45:17.920 --> 00:45:20.480
What's important is my hands that you can see.
00:45:20.559 --> 00:45:22.000
I'm gonna put these behind my back.
00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:22.400
Okay.
00:45:22.960 --> 00:45:23.440
Two hands.
00:45:23.599 --> 00:45:27.440
I want you to take any two of them and make sure the audience sees which two.
00:45:27.679 --> 00:45:28.719
I take any two objects?
00:45:28.880 --> 00:45:30.320
Yeah, two out of the three.
00:45:31.119 --> 00:45:32.239
I got my two objects.
00:45:32.480 --> 00:45:33.039
Fair enough.
00:45:33.199 --> 00:45:33.599
Yep.
00:45:33.840 --> 00:45:37.920
Okay, you left me with this one, and I'll just keep it down here.
00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:39.360
Free choice, right?
00:45:39.519 --> 00:45:40.639
I have free choice, yeah.
00:45:40.719 --> 00:45:41.119
Yeah.
00:45:41.440 --> 00:45:43.119
Give me one of those objects.
00:45:43.360 --> 00:45:43.920
Give you one?
00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:44.480
Either one.
00:45:44.639 --> 00:45:45.519
I'm partial to these things.
00:45:45.679 --> 00:45:46.719
I love these skeleton keys.
00:45:47.039 --> 00:45:48.320
Yeah, those keys are cool, right?
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I love them.
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I think they're awesome.
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Yes, you chose two items.
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Yes.
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Then you gave me one item.
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Yes, I did.
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There is a prediction in this prediction in the box?
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Yeah.
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I'm gonna turn around so everybody can see it, but then you can read it.
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So inside here is the and what does it say?
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That's a prediction right here.
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So I'm gonna read this out loud.
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Free will is an illusion.
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I will be holding the key, you'll be holding the coin, the tie clips will be hidden.
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Hidden back here.
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There you go.
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And the Kaiser made every decision.
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Every decision I made it, and I got the key.
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He got the coin, and the tie clip was hidden behind his back.
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That is really cool.
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That's uh effect I do, and you can learn about it and buy it from my website.
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It's called Free Will Switch.
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Uh, obviously, you don't have to have invest in the little case here.
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You can just do it with these three items if you want.
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There is a switch to it, I tell you.
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There is no switch, it's just one prediction.
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You could even have it at the bottom engraved if you want it.
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But it's a fun one, it's fooled a lot of people.
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First time I saw it, it fooled me.
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It's a good thing, good stuff.
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Go go pick this one up.
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If this is your type of magic, definitely this one's worth it.
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Uh, it fooled me the first time I saw it, it fooled me again.
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And there's no sleight of hand, there's no slide of hand, slide of my yeah.
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Anyone can do it, even your grandmother.
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I was gonna say Bubba, but we ain't gonna go down the Bubba Road today.
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So that was it, that was a very impressive effect.
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I think I'll go to your website and order it myself.
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I think that is that straightforward.
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That kind of wraps up our day today.
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We did a lot of good stuff.
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I mean, really good insight to oh, computer coolers happen really went down.
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Now we brought a PC to the table and cheat the casinos.
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Nobody does that or did that.
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Yeah, this was a real work.
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Before we leave, if you have any suggestions of topics you want us to cover, yeah, or just questions, leave a comment below.
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And what we've been doing is I have my 103 tips for magicians that we'll send you free.
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And it's a good little ebook, good information in there.
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Yeah, just ask away or make a comment, whatever uh we're here to answer.
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And if I don't know the answer, I'll make it up.
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But it's good information, it's a great trick.
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Check it out.
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And that that's it, that's pretty much the other day.
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What we do next.
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I think that's a wrap.
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That's a saying how we're rappers, yeah.
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Don't be a square.
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Share.
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Yeah, you heard it from Dustin, and he's not kidding.
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Definitely share, subscribe, and that's the way I'm talking about.
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I'll just see you next week.