Apple iPhone-Apple iPod Touch Blackjack Card-Counting App: Las Vegas Casino Warning

Casinos are being warned about a Apple iPhone card-counting application that lets users do the math on the chances of Blackjack cards appearing....

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California gaming authorities have tipped off their Nevada counterparts to a blackjack card-counting program that can be used on either the Apple iPhone or the Apple iPod Touch portable music player, the Las Vegas Review Journal reported.

"The program calculates the true count and does it significantly more accurately," according to a Gaming Control Board memorandum sent to casino operators last week warning of the electronic device.

The US$3.99 app has a feature, called stealth mode, that allows the user to easily operate the card counter with the phone concealed in a pocket. If you press the right half of the iPhone screen when a Blackjack card valued at 10 or higher appears on the table or the left half when a low card is flipped. The phone vibrates when its time to place the right bet.

Casinos are on the lookout, so if you have an iPhone card counting app on your Apple iPhone or iPod touch, be warned....

Via: LA Times, LVRJ