The Flash: An Indepth Look at the Move that Got the Money at the Blackjack Tables

The Kaiser and Dustin Marks talk about the Flash, a cheating move they did hundreds of times at the Las Vegas blackjack table in the 1980's. This episode goes deep into the psychology that helped make the Flash so deceptive.
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SPEAKER_02 0:04

Nothing is more exciting than doing something you're not supposed to be doing and getting away with it. You know this feeling, you've had it before. Now imagine taking that feeling to a blackjack table. For most people, that's just a fantasy. But for us, it was our reality.

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We were down with over 500 cheating plays at the blackjack table in Las Vegas casinos during the 80s.

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And we were never caught. This is Cheating at Blackjack. I'm the Kaiser, and now our host, Dustin Marks.

SPEAKER_00 0:44

Well, hi, I am Dustin Marks. And last week we talked about the Flash. This week we're going to go in depth, especially the psychology that made the Flash so deceptive for us.

SPEAKER_02 0:57

Yeah, we used to use it all the time, and it's a very good move, but now we're going to get into why we did it, how we did it, and more importantly, when we did it.

SPEAKER_00 1:08

Last week you saw me dealing to Kaiser. This week we're going to show you what we were really doing. Yeah, real in-depth that only guys like us could do.

SPEAKER_02 1:30

Yeah, exactly. You know, in episode two, we uh we played the flash, all was cool and now. Now we're gonna analyze exactly why me as the agent made the decisions that I did, and why the Dustin as dealing made the decisions he did, completely independent of each other, but working as one. But before we get started, I have a really odd question.

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All right.

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Why are you always dressed in a bowl tie and a shirt?

SPEAKER_00 2:01

Back in the 80s, this is how a typical blackjack dealer dressed. We had to dress like this. It was uniform. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was a uniform. It's called black and white. White shirt, black pants, and a bow tie.

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We're gonna go back over last week's episode and we're gonna review what we did. And we're gonna go into detail why we did this, why we did that, or we didn't do that. So you have a more in-depth idea of what the flash is to us. How's that sound?

SPEAKER_00 2:32

Yeah, and how to play it, especially from a agent's standpoint, because when I'm flashing, I don't see what he sees. In fact, I don't even know the card I'm flashing.

SPEAKER_02 2:42

He knows nothing. He's just doing the mechanics of flashing the card. But that's a very good point. Yep, you know nothing. You're just doing the mechanics.

SPEAKER_00 2:51

The rest is on well, the agent, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 2:55

We should kind of explain what basic strategies. Could you do that real quick?

SPEAKER_00 2:58

Yeah, basic strategy is a totally legal strategy you can employ, not to win, but you won't lose as much. And it's based on really two things: the dealer's up card and the cards in your hand. Based on those two factors, there is the best way to play every hand. And as you told me, they give out cards.

SPEAKER_02 3:20

Yeah, we uh you can get you can buy cards. Plastic yeah, cards you can actually put on the table and it tells you how to play.

SPEAKER_00 3:26

Not a deck of cards. Don't don't bring a deck of cards to the black jacket. That is not good.

SPEAKER_02 3:33

Yeah, just a plastic card. It has all the the hands, dealers versus player, and it tells you basically how to play. So in general, if I have a busting hand and the dealer has a two through six up, should I hit? No, I should stay because I I don't want to bust out because the probability of the dealer busting is higher.

SPEAKER_00 3:54

Higher in those situations. That's where they say a dealer has a stiff hand or stiff card up. And remember, the dealer has to hit up to 17. The player doesn't have to hit any hand if he doesn't want to.

SPEAKER_02 4:07

That's a very good point. That's why we, if we have a busting hand, you know, uh 12 through 16, and the dealer has a two through six showing, they have to hit so the player doesn't want to bust out. They want the house to bust out, they want the dealer to bust. So on the other side of that, if the dealer has a 10 up and I have a 12 through 16, the player should hit.

SPEAKER_00 4:29

Yeah, because what you're supposing is the dealer's whole card is always a 10.

SPEAKER_02 4:36

And the whole card is the down card? Yeah, the down card that is not seen. Okay. So we always assume that is a 10.

SPEAKER_00 4:43

It isn't, but you assume that.

SPEAKER_02 4:45

You base your play on that. Exactly. So, in that theory, if the dealer has a 10 up, most likely it ha the dealer has a 20. Yes. So we want to at least get to 17.

SPEAKER_00 4:57

Yeah, because the 12 through 16 is a dead loser.

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Is a dead loser. So that's where the basic strategy comes in. And as you'll find out in this video, I am playing basic strategy to a degree, and you'll see what I mean.

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And you know what? We'll have a link to a basic strategy cost.

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So in last week's video, I sat down at a table and just started playing, like any random player would do. But what you didn't know last week, and you'll find out now, is Dustin is my dealer. So I'm sitting down, I'm getting fed information. So my very first handout, you know, I sat down to get a 20, which is great because I started off a winner. Then we go on from there. Now, as Dustin picks up the cards, I'm already one step ahead of the game. Why is that, Dustin?

SPEAKER_00 5:43

Because I'm gonna flash Kaiser his first card of his new hand before he has to make a bet. This gives him betting efficiency.

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So now as I pick up the cards, he flashed. You can see it was a jack. So I know what my first card is.

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Now he's gonna see his first hit card.

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So right here, let me uh I have a 14 and you have a the dealer has a six up. So according to basic strategy, you should stand. I should stand.

SPEAKER_00 6:10

Correct.

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And watch what watch what I do because I get a stiff into a stiff, which you're not supposed to do according to basic, but I knew the seven was coming because Dustin flashed me. Now watch again as he picks up the cards.

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I'm gonna flash Kaiser again, so he knows.

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So we have a jack. So I just doubled my bet because I got a strong starting card.

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12% starting advantage. Now I'm flashing him again. It's first hit card. This is why he's going to tuck. Which is very odd, isn't it? Against the 10. If uh, well, you know this better than I, but if a boss is watching, he's gonna say, This makes no sense. He's not counting, he's not, he's an idiot.

SPEAKER_02 6:49

He's an idiot, that's exactly what we wanted. He is an idiot. He's playing no pattern.

SPEAKER_00 6:55

Would you say a lot of bosses would think he's playing hunches?

SPEAKER_02 6:59

Oh, yeah, definitely. That's what we want. Uh you see it all the time. People play very odd, different ways. And if you start seeing a pattern, and with experience of being on the floor, you get to see these odd, odd things happening.

SPEAKER_00 7:14

Oh, but you well, 50 years, you probably see everything in the world.

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So you got the people who do the exact same thing all the time. So you can rely on them to always do the exact same thing. Then you have the guy who, which I'm portraying here, he's all over the place. He hits, he stays. There's no rhyme or reason. Bet's chunky, bet's small. He's all over the place. So there's no rhyme or reason because it doesn't match basic strategy, doesn't really match counting patterns. It's just all over the place. So it bottom line is I'm a wack-le.

SPEAKER_00 7:46

So and wackos aren't dangerous.

SPEAKER_02 7:48

And they're not dangerous, they get lucky. Yeah, well, yeah. They get lucky. Let me tell you a story. Now, this is this is how people, how wack-le someone is. Okay, is that we had a player come in, playing a single deck game, never hit his first two cards. Never. Never hit his first two cards. He always stayed with his original cards. Wow. That day he won eleven thousand dollars.

SPEAKER_00 8:13

So and the play was on the square.

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It was on the square. So then he comes back in the very next day. Exact same strategy. Never hit his cards. He loses his 11,000 back plus another 5,000. And the kicker is he accused us of cheating.

SPEAKER_00 8:28

Well, they're a damn brain surgeon. So let me ask you something, because honestly, I've never heard of this story. So was he standing sometimes on less than 12? Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:37

No matter what his first two cards were, he never hit them. And we thought he was crazy, but hey, the first day he won 11,000.

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That shows you anybody can get lucky.

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Everyone can exactly.

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And you know what? When we won, that's what the bosses thought.

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That's exactly what they thought. And we couldn't get any truer picture than the guy's just playing lucky. He chucks it out there and he wins. If not, now the second hand, I stay on a stiff against a 10. And of course, I win. Now watch for the flash, see what we're gonna get. I've got $200 out there. I just flash Kaiser. It's an ace. So what do I do? I pump it right up. Now that's a natural progression. Oh, just to double your bet. If you win, you and you double your bet. It's a natural progression. So it's not suspicious at all because it's very common.

SPEAKER_00 9:23

And remember, we went over in episode two, an ace is a 52% starting advantage. So that's huge.

SPEAKER_02 9:31

So yeah, here's the thing is I know I have this strong, strong, strong starting percentage, but I don't put my whole bankroll out there because of that strong percentage, because that draws a lot of attention. First of all, if you bet a whole lot of money out there, just say from 50 to 300, 400, 500, dealer has to announce checks play. So now he's drawn attention to my game. Now he's gonna watch that particular hand to see what happens. Not out of suspicion, just out of curiosity if the idiot wins or not. That's all it is. But we don't want that. So we try to stay under the wire. So going from 100 to a $200 bet is very natural and very, very common. And that's exactly a snapped. What a surprise that was. So that's a $300 payoff. That is strong. See how quickly this money adds up? And this is not even the heart of it all. Now here's the next splash.

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So Kaiser's gonna bet appropriately.

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So I take everything back except for the hundred. Starting bet with $100, so it's not that bad of a deal.

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I flash him right there.

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Okay, so I have a five coming, it's not strong, but I can take the card anyway. And I lost.

SPEAKER_00 10:42

And this actually is good.

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Yes.

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Because we don't want to win every hand. No, that would be suspicious.

SPEAKER_02 10:49

So now I have the next card up, which you know, I'm just trying to figure out what I want to bet.

SPEAKER_00 10:54

I did not flash him, and here's the reason I didn't flash him. There was a boss watching. Kaiser didn't realize that because the boss is to Kaiser's back. I wouldn't flash if I thought a boss could catch the flash.

SPEAKER_02 11:10

Yeah, that's a good point. So I'm sitting there, he doesn't flash me, and knows what happened to my bet. Now I have been betting $50 minimums. So that is basically my base. That's my base bet. I'm gonna say a dirty word here. Uh oh. Kaiser is playing on the square. We do not want to play on the square. But this in this case It was a smart move. It was a smart move because I don't see the environment behind me or off to the side of me, but Dustin does.

SPEAKER_00 11:38

And the worst thing would be for Kaiser turn around looking all the time.

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Because that would be another tell.

SPEAKER_00 11:44

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 11:45

So we just, you know, if he chose not to flash, then he had a good reason not to. And that was my cue to say, okay, great, he's not going to flash me, just retreat. Um, you know, I went down to 50. That was my starting bet when I walked to the table, so it's not unusual. I've gone from I progressed from 50 to 200, which is and I'm back down to 50. Hey, that's how people play. So exactly. I didn't, I'm playing blind now. I play on the square, which is not my style. So this is when we find out why what happens, we gotta play this one out. And watch for the flash. What are we gonna get? There's the flash.

SPEAKER_00 12:20

Oh, hold on now. What was wrong with that flash?

SPEAKER_02 12:23

Uh, I think everybody in the pit saw that one. I mean, I I almost saw the other side of the card, it was so wide. Remember, we're just flashing just a sliver of the card, and now this does happen. You get pushy, and the whole indice plus is exposed.

SPEAKER_00 12:40

That is wrong, but I, as a dealer, remember, I can't see what I'm flashing. So Kaiser is gonna say something to me that hey, basically he's gonna say, Well, hey, you're flashing too much, but not saying those words.

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We would signal each other back and forth when things weren't going right. And he's got some interesting stories of what, of course, when I dealt. So he really exposed the hell out of that card.

SPEAKER_00 13:02

And uh, again, I don't know that because I can't see what I'm flashing. Every once in a while, you know, dealers do flash too much or too little, too little, and that's just it.

SPEAKER_02 13:15

You go through the mechanics and you don't know, you gotta it's a feeling thing. You go down there and you you do this thing, but you're not really sure. You have a rough idea where it's at, but sometimes you get too little, sometimes you get too much, and you try to narrow in there. And through the course of our signals, we narrow it in there. And we didn't go out there very often like he did in this one.

SPEAKER_00 13:33

I mean I actually exaggerated.

SPEAKER_02 13:34

He exaggerated for the filming. He never would go that high. I would maybe, but he never went that much.

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We will now return you to your regularly scheduled program in progress.

SPEAKER_00 13:55

Now that you saw the explanation of the flash, let's get into the real psychology and all the things we did to make it so deceptive.

SPEAKER_02 14:02

Sounds like a good idea.

SPEAKER_00 14:04

Okay, first thing, let's talk about well, where you sat. You always sat at first base, obviously. But if you remember, you moved your chair slightly, just slightly into the pit so your body would physically block the flash from the floor.

SPEAKER_02 14:22

Yeah, absolutely. From the boss behind us, uh, most players will not sit that far into a pit. They want to come out so they can see the game. Well, I have no interest in the game. My point of moving in is exactly what you just said. It cuts the angle down on the boss standing off to the side to catch possibly a glimpse if he's looking at it. And again, that's a very, very, very small chance. But we didn't take chances, we blocked off that view. So we scooed in. So now if they want to see something, they got to move farther into the pit. And doing so makes it harder for them to see if they were to see the flash. Exactly. So that was uh that was the psychology behind that one.

SPEAKER_00 15:05

Now, one thing I loved what you would do, because as you can tell, Kaiser is a great personality. You would talk to the boss, and you'd actually have the boss blot the flash for us, which was brilliant.

SPEAKER_02 15:17

Yeah, that was you get friendly with the bosses, and and you have to disarm somebody. Anytime you con somebody, you have to disarm them. And that was the beauty of it. You get nice with the the bosses, they'll come over and chat with you a little bit. There was one in particular, we called her the little girl, I think it was. Oh, I remembered. She kind of liked me and we chatted all the time. So, what I would do is she would come up and say hi to me. She would stand between Dustin, who is dealing, and me, who is sitting, right there in the gap between the spots. So now, anywhere in the pit, the flash is completely invisible.

SPEAKER_00 15:52

She's blocking it because at the same time she's talking to you. Yeah, she's kind of watching the other games. Ironically, she's not watching our game.

SPEAKER_02 15:58

She's not watching my game at all. And she's looking around because she's a good floorman. She was very good at what she did. So she's she's looking around, checking out the other games, listening for stuff at the hap. Meanwhile, she's BSing with me. Dustin is being the straight up, straight dealer, as you can imagine. He doesn't say anything, he's hardcore, boring as hell as a dealer. I have to say, he doesn't talk, he didn't do anything. So she's there, we're BSing, she's blocking a crucial moment, and she can't see anything because I got her locked up at the game. She can't be wandering around and having to glance over. She's mine, she's under my my control. So that was a very good thing. And I did a lot of that with as many as I could.

SPEAKER_00 16:38

Now, we weren't always perfect, obviously. When I was dealing the flash, I couldn't see what he's seeing. Yes. So we had to communicate, but we couldn't say, hey, I can't see the damn thing. We had to do it very subtly.

SPEAKER_02 16:53

Yeah, that that came into a lot when I was dealing because I was I was clumsy. I wasn't the machine that yeah, he's gonna start laughing.

SPEAKER_00 17:01

Man, my finger hurts.

SPEAKER_02 17:03

You know, when you're doing a flash, of course, your fingers are down there and they get in the way. Well, more so with me. My fingers always cover up so he would make little subtleties and and little movements with his ring, and I would guess, okay, I'm blocking this flash, he can't see it. So we had all these signals going back and forth because he can't see what I see. I can't, and so we had to communicate through subtleties like that. And I'll tell you a story later what really makes that funny about the ring finger.

SPEAKER_00 17:35

It would be me giving him feedback that okay, now you're correct it, and by simply just betting correctly.

SPEAKER_02 17:43

Right, yeah. You know, if he's not betting to what we expect, something's wrong. So there's another visual. We had all sorts of little signals to each other, and of course, we work so well together that we pick up on this and we adjust, which makes it very interesting. You have you have to know what you're doing.

SPEAKER_00 18:00

I almost felt, and I don't know if you agree, but I almost felt like we could read each other's minds.

SPEAKER_02 18:05

I could read his mind, and there was nothing there. But yes, we we were very in tune with you, and what made that work, aside being friends for 40 years and not really knowing you, is that we spent countless hours sitting at a table practicing this stuff. Oh, yeah, I mean, hour after hour after hour in the beginning, so we knew what to look for. When we got out in the wild and got experience of this, it just became second nature. So it just it just flowed very nicely.

SPEAKER_00 18:36

Actually, I'm gonna show them the grip here because it's different than ah, there you go. This is how you're supposed to grip the deck and deal. And that's how I start out, probably how you start out. This won't work with the flash, you have to open up this corner here. So I remember how I learned this grip because it felt very foreign to me, is I would literally walk around with a deck in my hand for hours until this now this feels completely normal, which is very interesting because that brings up a good point.

SPEAKER_02 19:12

You were brought up through 21. Yeah, deal. You were taught how to deal 21. I was not taught how to deal 21. I am a dice dealer with a magic background. I hold a deck of cards completely different to the way dealers hold their cards. So I had to adapt the way I hold cards to what would be accepted on the game, but it was not in that great detail. I was very loose with the deck of cards. But what made that work was that I was a dice dealer learning 21, or not really learning, but dealing. So back in those days, you know, I'm supposed to be clumsy with the deck of cards. I'm a dice dealer, I'm not a card guy, and so that would help me adjust my grip out of the norm, because I never had a normal grip, except when I was using a mechanics grip in magic, which is slightly different than what they do in a casino. In fact, back in the old days, if you were in a mechanics grip, they come break your hands. So it doesn't that way anymore. No, but see, that was our differences. He was taught how to hold a deck correctly. I was not, I just adapted what I knew and made it work.

SPEAKER_00 20:27

So, oh, that's a good point. So you kind of start out dealing the flash as a black Jack B, which you didn't have to unlearn the grip.

SPEAKER_02 20:35

Exactly right. I learned how to grip the cards the way I wanted and flash. That made us a lot of money. It made a lot of difference, but it made a lot of money. And no one questions you either. If it's uh no one's gonna nitpick, well, maybe back in the day they nitpick, but as time went on, uh they didn't really pound on how you held a deck. I mean, there are specific ways to hold a deck of cards up here, flatten, and then even when we burn a card, we do that wrong too. You're supposed to have your hand flattened down and under, which we'll get into. We didn't. We we twisted literally twisted that out of shape and never got called on it because bosses essentially are just want to go through the day. When we were doing the flash, we were conservative as to when we did it. When are times when we did not flash?

SPEAKER_00 21:29

Well, one of the probably the biggest things when the boss was burning us, right? Burning the dealer. Right. Also, if you didn't need that knowledge, then I wouldn't flash. But you would tell me by doing different things, like tucking your hand. Like if you had a 20, you didn't need to know the next card. If you had like a total of six, well, of course, you got a hit. You're not gonna stand on six. That would really be obvious. So you would start scratching and say. Oh, okay. I know what's going on. I won't flash.

SPEAKER_02 22:03

Yeah, that's a good stuff to know. And now back in back in the 80s, there was single deck and double deck. That was it. Now, single deck was easy to deal uh the flash. Double deck, on the other hand, was a little more tricky because I'm gonna turn a card up.

SPEAKER_00 22:23

You've got a reason. You've got you gotta handle this many cards and flash. And flash. And deal the game. Yeah. It was not easy. Now, as you dealt, of course, less and less cards were in your hand. It got easy. Got easy, yes. But we could deal off the top of the deck the flash. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 22:42

It took some practice. It took a lot of practice and getting comfortable with that many. You're talking 104 cards in your hand, and your first hand out, there's only four missing. So you've got a lot of cards in your hand that you have to turn sideways, manipulate the flash, and still not drop everything.

SPEAKER_00 23:03

Yeah, it's true. Took practice. May sound easy, but it actually was grab two decks and see how far you can get. In fact, if you play any kind of home game, you only play it with one. One deck. Yeah, there's no reason to play two. Absolutely. You know what we should show them?

SPEAKER_02 23:17

What's that?

SPEAKER_00 23:18

Not only did we have the flash down well, but we literally trained our eyes to see faster so we didn't expose the card as much.

SPEAKER_02 23:28

Oh, that's right. We just had a sliver. So how did we train our very delicate young eyes?

SPEAKER_00 23:33

I'm gonna do this very openly, but for real, I would turn a card over face up and not see it. And then what I would do is riffle about that quick and see if I could detect it. Now that's a jacket clutch. Of course, I saw. But back in the day, I'll do it a little slower, but let me do it with a different card and a card that we don't know what it is. Back in the day, I could literally see that fast. I think it was a four. I don't even have my glasses. I don't have my glasses on. But that is how we would see faster. So we would not have to keep the top.

SPEAKER_02 24:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 24:10

We would not have to uh have the card exposed that long.

SPEAKER_02 24:16

Here's a method I used along with that one. Just turn the card face down and just literally over here like this, just push it off.

SPEAKER_00 24:26

Like a not even half a just a sliver.

SPEAKER_02 24:28

Yeah. All right. And that's what I did. I just push it over and go, okay, that one's an eight. And of course, we get rid of that one, and you know, however you want to do it, and just keep going through, and you just get that little sliver right there. That looks like another eight. There you go.

SPEAKER_00 24:44

So not only did we not see the entire indict.

SPEAKER_02 24:48

See that? That barely fits out there. That's a seven. And that's how I trained my eye for that.

SPEAKER_00 24:55

Well, wait, don't you have two eyes?

SPEAKER_02 24:57

Only this one. The other one was watching the bosses.

SPEAKER_00 25:04

So by using these drills, we not only flashed the top card very quickly, we only flashed less than half of it. So the odds of anybody seeing it was almost zero. Not zero, but damn close.

SPEAKER_02 25:20

And here is our out. Okay, now you have the cards here. You're tucking your card under like this. Now, if by chance of the rarity, someone goes, huh? What was that? And you can sit there and go, I don't know what you're talking about. I was sloppy. If it was sloppy and expose the card, but you know, you know, I'll I'll fix it. But that little sliver, really, you're not going to and you're not going to catch that from way back when. But if you got an over-exertive go-getter boss says, hey, I saw something, you say, Well, you know, it slipped out. It's sloppy, it's not me. So we had our outs. We always had a an out.

SPEAKER_00 26:09

Yeah, I don't remember a boss ever saying anything to me. Never. But that's exactly what we would say if exactly. It was sloppy.

SPEAKER_02 26:17

I was sloppy dealing. And so that was our out. And everyone deals sloppy from time to time.

SPEAKER_00 26:22

Oh, yeah. Uh, dealers get tired.

SPEAKER_02 26:24

Tired. Cards get, you know, the new cards are harder to handle. They're slick. Double deck. There's always cards tumbling out everywhere. So it's not unusual that we have a mistake. So that was my out. I mean, I had them. Never had to use it because no one could see it, really.

SPEAKER_00 26:41

But that tells you how we thought we always came out or came up, I should say, with an out if needed. Exactly. We were prepared instead of flying by the seat of our pants.

SPEAKER_02 26:52

So we knew exactly what we were going to do if someone were to question what they thought they saw. Boy, that makes a lot of sense. I thought I saw something. What did you see? I don't know. I just thought I saw it.

SPEAKER_00 27:05

Well, yeah, and that's probably exactly the experience a player would have. He thought he saw something, but he's not sure. And you know, if he's at the game, he's got to play his hands. He'll probably he'll just forget about it. Sure.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:20

It's and the only, I think you'll agree, the only player that could possibly see it would be the person next to first base.

SPEAKER_02 27:27

Yeah. And that is a really big if, because the angle is not quite there. But if uh you know Dustin or myself are a little tired and got a little too much card out there, it's possible they could have caught a little bit more than they would normally, and they still wouldn't know what they saw.

SPEAKER_00 27:46

And you know what? That's why we talked about moving the chair in the pit a little. Now you're further away from the person at second base.

SPEAKER_02 27:54

If a person more of an angle when the card goes down, and you're blocking out like this way. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 27:59

So it's actually served two purposes, and it you know, most bosses wouldn't notice it because there's only maybe four or six inches, not like two feet.

SPEAKER_02 28:08

Uh yeah, they're out so we go nowhere. Just here, pull up a chair and watch, see where you can catch something.

SPEAKER_00 28:17

It wasn't like that. Guys, I'm gonna show you a card trick. All right, let's see it. All right, I'm gonna give the cards a very fair shuffle.

SPEAKER_02 28:26

I want you to Do you ever trust people who say I'm gonna give you a fair shuffle?

SPEAKER_00 28:30

Pick up the deck, pick it up, and pull out uh from the center a stock of cards and look at the bottom card. Show the camera, put it on top of the deck. Fair enough.

SPEAKER_02 28:42

Fair, that was fair.

SPEAKER_00 28:44

Cards were riffled, totally riffled. And then you pulled out a card and looked at it. Okay. Now, did you shuffle? No, I didn't shuffle. Okay, the shuffle?

SPEAKER_02 28:53

Well, that's funny. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 28:55

And what was your card?

SPEAKER_02 28:57

Eight of Hearts.

SPEAKER_00 28:58

See, it's right, it's right here. I used a couple of principles, obviously a bottom. Okay, that took me by surprise. The other thing I use, which a lot of advanced card men use, is a corner shark card, which can be used for so many different purposes. I have a I think a hundred and sixty-page ebook about it, which we'll link to the description below if you're interested in how powerful corner shark cards are.

SPEAKER_02 29:24

Yeah, that's a great, great effect right off the bat. Well, guess what time it is now? One of our favorites story time, that is it. And you have a sh a story for us.

SPEAKER_00 29:33

Yeah, I got a good one this week. Right on, let's hear it. Well, as you remember, I'm sure you were at my game, I was dealing, and this pit boss comes up to me. We nicknamed her Red because we she had red hair.

SPEAKER_02 29:50

We had names for all of them.

SPEAKER_00 29:52

Yeah. So she trusted me, which was a big mistake.

SPEAKER_02 29:58

Well, you know, the reason is trust you're a good dealer, you do everything by the book, at least in their eyes, they did. So he was a very trustworthy dealer in the boss's eyes.

SPEAKER_00 30:08

So she comes up to me and whispers in my ear, I can't watch your game. There's big action on the game across the pit. Wow. Let me know if anything's going on. Yeah, wow. I'll tell you what, we want a lot more than a thousand dollars that night.

SPEAKER_02 30:27

Well, it's interesting that they said they come over and tell you, hey, look, we left the vault open, we're not gonna be here. Go ahead, help yourself. That's amazing. I remember that. That was fun. We we in the turn rip and tear. Yeah, big time. And unwatched, unsupervised, uh delinquents. Basically what I'm bored to.

SPEAKER_00 30:46

So, Kaiser, tell them what's gonna be on next week's podcast.

SPEAKER_02 30:49

Next week's podcast is gonna give you insight into how was the deal in the 80s, from casino to casino, basically from a ca uh from a dealer's point of view and also a boss's point of view, how it was back in the 80s. It's a lot different then than it is now, as far as a dealer's perspective, what you can and cannot do. So it's it'd be very interesting.

SPEAKER_00 31:09

Yeah, I think it will be.

SPEAKER_02 31:10

So we look forward to seeing you. So now what do we do?

SPEAKER_00 31:14

Well, it's our standard slogan: don't be a square, share.

SPEAKER_02 31:20

So until next week, we'll catch you later. Take care. Bye.