Blackjack Cheating. We Stacked the Deck Every Night — Advanced Techniques the Casinos Never Caught.

In Episode 7 of Cheating at Blackjack, Dustin Marks and The Kaiser go deep on advanced stacking the deck in the game of blackjack — the sophisticated techniques used night after night in real Las Vegas casinos without ever being detected.

This is the real work. Not a simulation. Not a demonstration. The actual moves used in actual casinos for four years.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

When you walk into a casino, the odds are always against you. When I walk into a casino, the odds are always in my favor. Welcome to cheating at Blackjack. I'm the Kaiser.

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I'm Dustin Marks. We were down with over 500 different cheating plays at the Blackjack table in Las Vegas during the 1980s.

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And we were never caught.

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Damn right.

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So what do we got going on today, Mr. Dustin?

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This is an episode I've been really excited about. This is advanced stacking, information you're not going to see anywhere else from two guys who actually did it. This is not theory, this is the real work.

SPEAKER_00 0:46

This is the working stuff. Now, a few episodes back, we showed you the lay stack, which we worked off of what was on the table, which was a mainstay for us. But this goes beyond that. This goes into a lot of detail of how to more or less manufacture our hand.

SPEAKER_01 1:02

Yes, we'll go over all the different combinations. And you know what? We'll even talk about fishing at the end.

SPEAKER_00 1:10

Fishing. Love to fish. So this is a great episode. You're gonna love it. So keep your eyes peeled and see if you can figure it out. I haven't yet.

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But first, let's recap the basic stacking.

SPEAKER_00 1:23

Oh, yeah. Get people up to speed. Get you right up to speed.

SPEAKER_01 1:26

Well, the thing we worked off is what we call the lay stack. That's how the cards laid on the table after the dealer turned them face up and was going to pay the player. That gave us the information, if you know the formula, how to generate a good hand or even a blackjack, depending on how the cards laid.

SPEAKER_00 1:47

Yeah, it all depended on the number of players and the position of cards. So basically, all you had to do is pick up the cards, do a couple false shuffles, and deal them right back out. That's the lay stack. That's very effective. Very effective.

SPEAKER_01 1:59

And one thing we'll talk about is IBN number. In between number. You have two, let's just say these are our key cards. You have two key cards. And if you have three players, you need three cards in between. Then you pick up what we call the slug. And during the shuffle process, you do not disturb those cards.

SPEAKER_00 2:21

Which is easy to do. And you know, as we showed you in the previous, and we did how we beat the shuffle, kept the slug together, how we beat the cut. All that was covered back there, which is a great information. And that is the basics of this coming video.

SPEAKER_01 2:36

Yeah. So if you want, you can just look at that video, and that'll really get you up to speed. Because this is going to go a lot further, and you might get lost if you don't have that basic background knowledge.

SPEAKER_00 2:49

Definitely. This is well worth taking the time to study and learn. Do dealers cheat using methods that we're exposing here for the house, for the casino, against the players?

SPEAKER_01 3:05

No, not in this day and age. It's just not worth it. These corporations are billion-dollar corporations. They're not going to try to do that. Plus, you'll probably agree, it probably takes six months to make that decision with all the VPs, that's true.

SPEAKER_00 3:25

Because what is casinos have a built-in edge. No matter what you do, how long you do it, they're guaranteed X percentage of return on every dollar dropped. So, you know, thinking that the casino is trying to cheat you for that few extra dollars, they've got their money, their money's already made. It's built into the game. No matter what you do, they make their percentage. It's guaranteed.

SPEAKER_01 3:50

Now, that's today. Yes. Back in the 50s and 60s, some casinos had mechanics, guys like us who worked for the casino who would cheat the players.

SPEAKER_00 4:03

Yes. That's because the mob was taking all the dollars out of the place.

SPEAKER_01 4:08

In fact, back in the 50s, the silver slipper casino actually used gimmick dice against players, and they got caught for it.

SPEAKER_00 4:19

Yeah, the good old days. They tried just about anything to make more money because it wasn't corporate owned, it was mob owned. So all the money went in the box, went out the back door. So the more money in the box, the more money in their pockets.

SPEAKER_01 4:34

This is a lay stack that we covered in the episode stacking basic. Go over a brief recap now that you see the cards. My agent is sitting here at first base. All the hands that we're going to stack will come here. Our first key card will always be the rightmost card and the card I pick up first. In this case, it's a jack because I'm going to make this very obvious. We have three bets. So now we have three cards that are we don't have to be concerned about. It's the fourth card, will be the second card the agent gets. In this case, it's going to be a blackjack. That's the recap. Now we're going to introduce the new variable, the dealer's up card. And that will always be in the same place. It's going to be to the right of the second key card. In this case, it would be the eight of hearts. If there was a two here, it would be the bottom most card. I'm going to pick these cards up like a dealer would pick them up. I'm not going to shuffle, but I'm going to show you. See how the eight and the ace. Now I pick up my hand, shuffle, shuffle, and I'm just going to deal them out. There's the key card. Here's the dealer's up card and the black jack. So these two key cards wind up in the agent's hand. Why this is important? Let's say I didn't stack him a blackjack, but it was a 19. Well, now I know the dealer has an up card of an eight. So there's a good shot that we're going to win. And if we're at the end of the round or at the end of the shift, and I'm about to go on break, and we need something, this would be better not stacking at all. And the next shot, I'm going to show you how to know both cards of the dealers. Now we're going to take this a step further. We will know both the dealer's up card and his whole card. Again, this eight is the dealer's up card. How do we find the dealer's whole card? We use the same formula. It can be applied to the players, the credit cards, or the dealers. Remember, the in-between numbers three. So we start counting from here one, two, three, go this way because that's how I'm going to pick them up. So a dealer's going to get a 17. Let's pick it up and I'll show you. There's our blackjack. This would be the whole card. 17. So if this worked out that my agent had an 18, that would be fine because the dealer has a 17. This works well with three or less players. Once you get the four or five, it's much tougher. Technically, it works, but the slug is bigger and bigger because you have more cards. If you're dealing with a double deck game, you could probably get away with at least four players, maybe five. Single deck, no, because you got two, four, six, eight right there. Now you go up to ten, that's oh, that's almost a quarter of the deck.

SPEAKER_00 8:12

So using this technique, rather than just going for that blackjack as we did in the lace deck, we're always going for the black jack because it was quick and easy. Basically, this we can do ongoing as long as you see a winning hand. Right.

SPEAKER_01 8:29

Actually, from a psychological standpoint, it's stronger if I see you're gonna get an 18 and the dealer has a 17. Blackjacks does create a little bit of a tension. Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 8:47

Yeah, that's awesome because that way you can have uh virtually, well, to be safe, every every every couple of hands you can have you could stack a lay stack there. If it works out well, because the player isn't getting monster hands, they're just getting 18s and 19s or even 20s against your 17s and 18s. Fly Reich Pat. I virtually any boss.

SPEAKER_01 9:10

There's no tell on that whatsoever. Now let's talk about one of those rare circumstances. You're seeing the flash, but it's just not working. And we're not getting the lace tax, it's just not working. In those circumstances, it doesn't happen often, but it does happen. We term this fishing. But as I start to shuffle, I'm looking for an ace. Okay, I didn't see one there. I got another one. I didn't see one. Let's just do it like this, okay? First shuffle. I see the ace. Now, an ace is a 52% starting advantage, which is very strong. If we're heads up, I might try to see if I can do a blackjack. If we're not heads up, I'm just gonna keep that ace on top. This is the burn card. Then I do the strip, etc. Burn this card. Now he starts his hand with an ace, 52%. Let's see what happens. Doesn't always work. Now he would see the flash, a queen, that's not really gonna help him. He wouldn't hit because if I'm stiff, which I am, that bust. So now, of course, you probably wouldn't bet this big, but you get the idea. We didn't have to use this a lot, luckily, but it is an advanced technique that we did use sometimes. Because again, when you're working with a lay stack, there's a lot of luck. Okay, we said we never want to rearrange the cards. So if this is our first key card, we have two bets, one, two, seventeen. It's not gonna work. What we can do, we can still use the ace as our first key card. One, two, three, blackjack. This becomes the burn card. So actually, this is easier. You don't even have to shuffle in a burn card. So I'll pick the cards up, and then I'll burn the card, kill them out, blackjack.

SPEAKER_00 11:20

Yeah. See, that's pretty good. You have options now. Yeah. Because normally what we do is we see we see the stack, we get it all prepared through our shuffles, and we would add a burn card to prevent our stack from being uh out of order. But if you don't have a winning hand, but you can squeeze that burn card in from the layout, that's one less thing to do, and you still get that big hand.

SPEAKER_01 11:44

So it gives you an option.

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It gives you options now on on the on the lay stack.

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So here's the secret behind the devastating mini cooler where you build it on the fly. There is no deck switch.

SPEAKER_00 11:57

So just to refresh my memory, the cooler is originally was switching cards in play to a pre-arranged order.

SPEAKER_01 12:03

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 12:04

And we alluded to other methods that make it easier. Now, this one is built on the game through the hands that's already been dealt.

SPEAKER_01 12:12

Mm-hmm. It is random. It won't happen all the time.

SPEAKER_00 12:14

This is impressive.

SPEAKER_01 12:15

But if you can get two or three hands in a row, think how strong that is. And the agent can just keep doubling his bet. And looks normal. So let's go.

SPEAKER_00 12:25

This was good.

SPEAKER_01 12:30

So not only does the player win, but I'm looking here to see if this could be the beginning of a mini cooler. 20, the agent, 17, the dealer. So it works. These cards are picked up and put in the rack. Ideal the next hand. Oh, look. 2019. Yes. Start of a computer cooler. And the third hand. We'll just go three hands here. Now, let's say he I'm flashing. Remember? So he's gonna see this card, so he's not gonna hit bust. Now we have a three-hand mini cooler. I'm gonna keep these cards in order. Normally they'd be going on top of each other. It'd still work, but this will be simpler for you to follow. Now I would shuffle. Now you know you're gonna win three hands in a row after the cut. So you made the cut. Here's the first hand. I'm gonna deal them face up. You won.

SPEAKER_00 13:44

No, I already said before. It's very odd, it's very good common.

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Winner again.

SPEAKER_00 13:55

Well, this is gonna ride this one out.

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So now he's gonna make his biggest bat now. Because he knows this is the end of the mini cooler. What's nice, he has a bad hand, but he knows he's gonna win. So he's not going to bet or take a hit card, and I'm not even gonna flash. So now he's just won three hands in a row.

SPEAKER_00 14:23

So here's here's how devastating that all turned out to be. There's my original $300 bet, and this is the profit. $2,100 in three hands.

SPEAKER_01 14:39

And actually the mechanics are pretty easy. They're not real difficult because I'm only keeping small slugs of cards. This didn't happen often, because it is random.

SPEAKER_00 14:50

It is random. You've got to have the right circumstances. Exactly. You don't always come across a table that's empty. But you have on the time period late in the evening, a graveyard shift when they're getting ready to close games is when you can actually put this into action without any scrutiny.

SPEAKER_01 15:07

What would you do if on the last hand of the mini cooler somebody comes up and wants to play? That would ruin the cooler if the player is allowed to play.

SPEAKER_00 15:16

If someone were to come up, I say, look, I'm kind of on a run, can I finish out this and just kind of back him off? And it's not uncommon for players to ask other players, especially when they're betting high amounts of money. You know, if someone comes and says, Hey, can you wait to the shuffle? I mean, I I feel like this is could be it, or whatever the excuse is, you know. My fortune card said, Hey, wait. But it's very common. So, and for most times, the person coming in will give you that courtesy. Don't wait.

SPEAKER_01 15:44

And then since the cooler's over, you can say, okay, now you can play this next round or next hand, and then you would bet small.

SPEAKER_00 15:51

Right. So we get a we get around these little nuances like that. We try to abuse this. I mean, uh, help the system as much as we can.

SPEAKER_01 15:59

Now I want to talk about one of the favorite plays we ever came up with. Obviously, if Kaiser's winning a lot of money, he's gonna have heat. But how about if he could make a table max bet and have no heat? That sounds impossible.

SPEAKER_00 16:18

That sounds really out there.

SPEAKER_01 16:20

We call this the relative play. So Kaiser knows he's gonna get a blackjack. We have what we call a relative, it could be a friend, sitting, not sitting, but standing near the table. He gets the signal. He comes in and he pretends he's a good friend, a relative of the Kaiser, and he kind of laughs at the Kaiser saying, Why are you only betting 200? Let me show you how a real man bets. And of course, I have a blackjack stacked. Ideal. We covered a lot of stuff.

SPEAKER_00 17:00

There was a lot of time.

SPEAKER_01 17:01

Let's do a recap.

SPEAKER_00 17:02

Let's recap the recap.

SPEAKER_01 17:03

Okay. But the first thing we showed him is how the dealer knows his up card, which is important. If a dealer has a six up, then if I stack Kaiser at 20, pretty good odds you're gonna win.

SPEAKER_00 17:15

Correct.

SPEAKER_01 17:15

And we took it a step further where now we know the dealer's total. That's really strong. So if dealer has a 19, but you have a 20, looks great. Then we talked about how important it was to get heads up.

SPEAKER_00 17:30

Heads up is the key because you can really do some devastating damage as far as hands per hour. Yes, and increased winnings.

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And then we showed them how you went to two hands, which was really, really devastating.

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Two hands is basically two of me at the table. And that's a scary thing about my twin is invisible and he sits next to me, winning big like me. It's it's it's a sight to see, it really is.

SPEAKER_01 18:05

And a few times we got into the mini cooler.

SPEAKER_00 18:08

Mini coolers, that has got to be one of my.

SPEAKER_01 18:10

That's the nuts. It's random, it doesn't happen much, but when it happens, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:14

You can't plan on it. If it lands, you take advantage of it. That's all it is. I mean, if you see it, you do it. And it like you like Dustin said, it didn't happen often, but when it did, we took advantage of it.

SPEAKER_01 18:25

And finally, fishing.

SPEAKER_00 18:27

Fishing. Have you ever gone fishing on a 21 table? It's a whole new concept, but it's the same theory. You stick your line out there, hope you get something. Yeah, it's a great all this stuff is really uh doesn't exist except in our world.

SPEAKER_01 18:44

It's the inside information at you can't get this by theory. You had to do it, and we did it, and we didn't just do it once, we did it many, many times.

SPEAKER_00 18:57

It's interesting to say it isn't theory. You devised all this stuff while actually dealing and saying, Hey, I could do this, I could do that. So it wasn't sit down with your calculator, go, okay, I could do the gotta go, gotta go, gotta go. It was actually on-the-job training in a sense.

SPEAKER_01 19:14

Yeah, when he wasn't at my table, I was constantly thinking of ways to make our cheating methods more deceptive and more powerful. Yeah, I deal really about six hours a day with the breaks. Yes, maybe an hour or less. Yeah. So those other five hours, I don't want to just be a square dealing. I want to be thinking, how can I cheat the game better?

SPEAKER_00 19:36

Yeah, and it paid off, as you can see. One of my favorite segments, and that's Shorty Time. And that's basically where we tell humor stories of our time playing, and we have a lot of them. So, what do you got for us, Dustin? Oh, I got a good one.

SPEAKER_01 19:52

I'm dealing at this particular casino for a while. You've been in many, many times. There's this older boss, nice guy, but one day I'm on a dead game, meeting no players. He comes up to me and says, You don't know how to shuffle. So I'm already kind of laughing, but not laughing. And he says, I clump shuffle, which actually was true. Yes, he did. There's multiple slugs to stack the deck. So he goes, Let me show you how to shuffle. I'm acting like I'm really interested in stuff. So he does he does a shuffle. It's not bad. He goes, now shuffle like that. So I said, here's my opportunity. So honest to God, I did two push-through shuffles right under his nose. You know what he said? That's the way to shuffle cards.

SPEAKER_00 20:40

So basically, a push-through is a fall shuffle, cold deck, false shuffle, cold deck, fall shuffle, and it gives the illusion and very effectively of shuffling the deck. And all you're doing is taking one half and pushing it completely through the other half and pull them out on the opposite sides and then strip them or put it on top. Uh very like you're just cutting the deck. Very, very deceptive. And to do it underneath the sharp boss's eyes is hysterical. I wish I would have been there for that. That's awesome. It is now time for my favorite segment, Being a Magician. This is Magic Moment. Dustin, show us your wares. What do you got, buddy?

SPEAKER_01 21:20

Got something a little different.

unknown 21:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 21:22

Hopefully the magicians out there will like this.

SPEAKER_01 21:24

You have a good imagination.

SPEAKER_00 21:26

Uh I imagine I do.

SPEAKER_01 21:28

Okay. Well, let's test it. Okay. Imagine you have six coins in front of you: a penny, a nickel, dime, quarter, half dollar, and a dollar.

SPEAKER_00 21:38

Okay. You want me to choose what? Uh choose uh two of them. Two of them. Let's go. Let's go with a quarter and a half dollar.

SPEAKER_01 21:47

No. Okay, a quarter and a half dollar? Sure. Okay, so you got four coins that you didn't choose. Right. We'll give them to your favorite charity.

SPEAKER_00 21:55

Right on, me.

SPEAKER_01 21:57

Okay. You're a little heavier now.

SPEAKER_00 21:59

Walk it with pockets full. Go ahead.

SPEAKER_01 22:02

So you got a quarter and a half dollar, correct?

SPEAKER_00 22:04

Correct.

SPEAKER_01 22:05

Give me one and keep one.

SPEAKER_00 22:06

Okay. You want me to tell you what I gave you? Yeah. I gave you the quarter. Gave me the quarter. Sure. Yeah. I keep the bigger coin myself.

SPEAKER_01 22:14

Okay. Smart man. Uh-huh. So I'm going to have, I don't want to flip it because I don't want to influence any. Uh-huh. You flip the quarter and you tell me, does it land on heads or tails? You see what it is? Tell them. Heads. I verify. Yes. We started with six coins. Yes. You pick two. Then you flip the one, which was a quarter. Yes. And has two sides. We're not dealing with gimmick coins here.

SPEAKER_00 22:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:44

And it landed on heads. This has been in front of us the whole time. I don't want to touch it. No, don't open it up and see what coin and what side it's on.

SPEAKER_00 22:52

It is a quarter and it is on the head side.

SPEAKER_01 22:55

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 22:56

That is really cool. That's nice.

SPEAKER_01 23:00

Thank you. This comes out of my book Equivockey, which there'll be a link down in the description. And it's about a hundred pages, has all kinds of insights into this really powerful magic and mentalism tool.

SPEAKER_00 23:15

Yeah, it is widely used and very effective tool. Make sure you check out next week's video. Why? Because we told you to. Yeah. No, there's a lot of good information coming your way. We've only scratched the surface. So that's it for this episode. Make sure you check on our future episodes because this is only scratching the surface. So make sure you subscribe because when you subscribe, you get that notification. Ring that notification bing, you'll know when we're posting. And that way you can be up to date on the latest video. And you can go out and cheat casinos if you want. No, I didn't say that. Not at all. So make sure you subscribe so you don't miss a very important episode.

SPEAKER_01 24:00

Don't be a square. Share.

SPEAKER_00 24:04

You heard it from Dustin. Have a good week. Bye.