He'll simply grab three quarters from his rack and stack them next to the player's bet, while quickly picking up the player's seven nickels. Then he'll add a couple of nickels, plus two-fifty to the payoff, leaving the player with a total of $77.50. The short-pay dealer does this so fast that the player doesn't even think about what the correct payoff should have been. In fact, the dealer just stole $10 from the player, because the correct payoff on a $35 blackjack is $52.50, so the player should have been left with $87.50 in front of him, not $77.50.

I recently watched a dealer at a downtown Las Vegas casino make five short-pays in the course of an hour at a crowded table where all players were betting less than $50 per hand. All of the short-pays were done during color-ups, one of them while coloring up the chips of a player who was leaving the table. In two of the short-pay incidents, the boss watched the transactions and said nothing.

Many major casino prevent dealers from paying off bets while simultaneously coloring up the player's chips. By requiring dealers to pay the bet as placed, incorrect payoffs are avoided. Casinos that allow dealers to pay bets in this fashion should always make you wary.

A false shuffle is a difficult cheating move to detect. It may be used in either single or multi-deck games. No sleight-of-hand is necessary-the dealer simply locates a clump of high cards by noting their approximate position when he places them in the discard tray, or his hand, if single deck. Then, when later shuffling the cards, he controls this clump and positions it where it will be cut out of play. This may seem impossible, but it's actually not that difficult. Dealers know that players are creatures of habit; players who cut dead center on one shoe can usually be depended upon to cut the same way every time. Likewise, some players announce their cutting "strategy" to the table with cute sayings like "Cut thin to win!" The dealer can assume this player believes in this "thin-to-win" superstition, and this player is a perfect candidate to cut those high cards out of play.

By causing high cards to be cut out of play, the dealer doesn't have to do anything else to get a big edge on the players. This type of shuffle is undetectable to players, pit bosses, and the eye-in-the-sky. Yet, the dealer will completely nullify any potential gain from card counting and, over the long run, will win a greater amount of money from all the players who play against him.

This type of cheating is particularly devastating to card counters because it causes the count to ascend as the excess low cards are dealt. The counter raises his bets, but the expected high cards never come out.

The easiest way to handle this type of cheating is to leave the table.

Your only clue that this false shuffle technique is being used will be that you will notice the count is always high when the dealer shuffles. If this occurs shuffle after shuffle, leave the table.

In most Nevada online casino UK, it could be difficult for a dealer in a shoe game to steer a clump of cards anywhere in the shuffled decks because most casinos have house shuffle routines that must be followed. Most players who have reported suspicious games to me, where the count always went up, ended high, and never came down, shoe after shoe, have experienced this disturbing phenomenon in foreign or Indian reservation casinos; in one case the practice was later confirmed by a person who worked at a suspected casino.

At really crooked casinos, where there would usually have to be a boss, and probably a shift manager, involved in the scam, a counter might notice that the count always ends very high, but no false shuffle is used. Instead, a "short" shoe, which actually had aces and tens removed (or extra low cards added) is in play. For years many professional counters have reported that they think short shoes are used in some Puerto Rican casinos, but I've also had confirmed reports of short shoes being used in two Las Vegas casinos in the past few years.

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