Edge sorting and distracting live dealers

There is a link between the practice of baccarat sedge sorting, and distracting live dealers (live dealers prone to distract you from your play that is).

That link is Phil Ivey.

Last year he was on the wrong end of a High Court decision in which a (very unfair) judge ruled that a £7.8 million baccarat win at Crockfords, pulled off thanks largely to Ivey’s baccarat edge sorting skills, was cheating.

Ivey’s edge sorting expertise are once again under the judicial microscope. This time a big win ($US 9.6 million) at Atlantic City’s Borgata is being contested by the casino who paid out the win but now want the money back.

Like he did in the High Court, Ivey is arguing that far from cheating, edge sorting is simply using skill and observation to beat the casino. But perhaps wiser from the Crockford’s experience, he is mounting an additional defense. He is saying that the casinos don’t play fair either.

He is alleging that the casino’s practice of, “plying him with free alcohol served by only the most curvaceous and voluptuous females in the industry” is also gaining an unfair advantage.

“It distracts you from your playing…I mean, anything they can do to give themselves an advantage. Everyone knows that alcohol impairs your judgment, and they offer that, and they have the pretty cocktail waitresses and they’re all very flirty. They’re talking to you, you know. I got quite a few numbers.”

His lawyers are paying particularly close attention to the Borgata Babes, a bevy of beauties whose primary purpose (they contend) is to distract high rollers from the game at hand.

Hmmm. Pretty, chatty, maybe even a little flirty.

As I was reading all this I couldn’t help but be reminded of  another bevy of beauties who can be similarly distracting at times.

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