Poker Pro accused of using edge sorting

[erdnasephile]

http://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/04/1 ... e-sorting/

According to the report, it seems like some allegedly suboptimal quality control at the playing card manufacturer possibly came back to bite the casino.

[Curtis Kam]

Hell, he has been sued before and admitted that he was edge sorting. He then insists that a certain brand of cards be used, and he (surprise) wins over an extended period of time. The casino can't blame anyone but itself at this point.

[Bob Farmer]

He must have read that book by Busby, Secret of the Palmettos.

[erdnasephile]

Hell, he has been sued before and admitted that he was edge sorting. He then insists that a certain brand of cards be used, and he (surprise) wins over an extended period of time. The casino can't blame anyone but itself at this point.

I concur. I wonder why the casino would agree to such terms--another news story stated that his Asian escort made the dealer turn over the cards in a particular way to keep the edges in a particular orientation. Wouldn't there have been a pit boss supervising such a high stakes game to prevent such shenanigans?

[erdnasephile]

The one positive of this story for me was that it made me pull Forte's "Poker Protection" off the shelf to look up edge sorting (starts on page 202; "Casino Game Protection" briefly mentions these strategies as well on page 461).

The positive was reading about all the other cool marking systems detailed in the text--I love these books!