Land-based casinos: why is the iPhone likely to be banned there?

If you know one or more people who are banned from casinos, it may be that your best friend also becomes a persona non grata within the physical casinos. We are of course talking about your iPhone which helps some unscrupulous players to cheat to win more. But let's remember the adage " ill-gotten good never benefits ». Why is there a risk that the iPhone will no longer be able to pass through the door of these earthly paradises? Is it possible to implement such a measure? Let's see this together!

The iPhone, the object of the crime of cheating for some time

Do you remember your first graded questions at school and also those (rare, we hope) times when you took a nap to avoid having a bad grade to take home? It seems that the iPhone, the best friend of the ultra-connected human, is the anti-cheat 2.0 for casino players. Except that in this case, the carrot is not the right grade, but the huge amount of money to be won!

Today it is possible to do almost everything with a smartphone, and in particular the specimens of the Apple brand. Track your friends, order food, check your accounts or stay glued to social networks, the possibilities are endless. But the most honest of us will find it hard to believe that there are also applications to cheat at the casino!

Any player who knows a little about the game knows that it is forbidden to count the cards in blackjack to win for sure. This prohibition is perfectly illustrated in the film Las Vegas 21, which tells the story of M.I.T. students guided by their teacher in cheating at blackjack. Today there are software adapted into applications that count the cards in blackjack. For obvious reasons, we are not going to elaborate too much on what this consists of, but it is a phenomenon that concerns land-based casinos to the highest point!

Is it possible to ban phones within a land-based casino?

Difficult to answer this question! On the one hand, it is the most effective and radical solution to combat this scourge of cheating. As calculators or smartphones are confiscated during an official exam test, will removing a player's phone be well seen?

Indeed, freedom is a sacred notion and many of us consider their phone as the extension of their arm. What would happen if visitors to a physical casino were asked to leave their phone at the entrance at the same time as their coat?

Penalizing honest players to discourage a tiny part of cheaters would be very complicated. At the moment, the solution remains to be found to prevent cheaters from drying up the casinos without preventing other players from having fun.

Perhaps the near future holds some surprises, such as the development of software funded by physical establishments that would cancel the operation of such applications, or the implementation of jammers that would neutralize the fraudulent activity of cheaters' phones.