Playing a game of blackjack at the Casino is always a thing that is supposed to be highly delivering on the fun quotient and it should also give an adrenaline rush. Especially in the United Kingdom, these days playing Blackjack in the casinos are becoming more and more popular. From just a weekend activity it has gained the stature of in-thing in the society. Young or old, it doesn’t matter – everyone seems to get attracted towards this game.
Using Mobile to Count the Cards?
As the count of the people who appreciate the randomness and luck involved in the game, there are few other types of people too who do not like luck playing its part when it comes to the casino games. Especially, if we look into the mobile app market, one can find lot many applications that are supposed to be cheats for these amazing casino games. Such applications are very easily available both for iPhone and Android platforms for mobile.
Card counting in blackjack is not a legal phenomenon in UK as well like many other parts of the world. Therefore the crooks have found a new way to count the cards by using mobile application which can easily be installed on their iPhone. There are several card counting programs and mechanisms present in the iPhone app market and people, especially the crooks are using these to beat the house while playing a game of Blackjack in the Casino.
Why Blackjack?
Now, if we look that why out of so many games in the Casino, the Blackjack has been targeted by these apps, then the reason is very simple. Actually, out of all the Casino games in which luck has to play its part, it is Blackjack only which can be won by applying brains. There are several techniques by which the game can be easily won.
Since, the people were getting caught by the moderators for counting the cards in team while doing the gestures to their partners therefore, mobile applications came into the scene. Although, even using the mobile apps or any other possible method to count the card is illegal, yet people are following these apps tremendously. Probably the urge to win the game and the risk involved is strong enough to overpower their logical thinking process.
Why People Prefer the App Over the Brains?
Counting cards, as it may seem in the movie 21 (Hollywood movie depicting MIT students using the Card Counting technique to loot a casino in Las Vegas) is not at all an easy thing to do. One has to memorize thousands of permutations and combinations in order to accurately count the cards. Therefore, the crooks prefer these apps instead to do the calculation for them. Also, the chance of getting caught is reduced to a certain level.
This does not means that the Casinos in the UK are readily accepting this IPhone app. They have already come out with strategies to tackle with the use of any such mobile applications by people to bend the fortune to their side.
So beware if you are an IPhone or Smartphone user, you will be monitored even more closely.