04.05.2024

This is Fox 5 News at 10 you are about. to learn some high stake secrets that. got a guy banned from every casino in. Las Vegas he didn't break the law he got. kicked out of Sin City for winning too. much money and now the local card shark. wants to show you how he did it Fox5. Steve sheny has more on feating the. odds Sin City America's playground as. the saying goes what happens in Vegas. stays in Vegas that is unless you take. Vegas for more than $10. million the most money I won was a. little over2 200,000 and that was in one. weekend maybe you've heard about mahon's. team MIT students who perfected the art. of card counting for 8 years the math. whiz breezed in and out of casinos. leaving with more cash than he could. carry I actually had to put the last. 30,000 underneath my baseball cap and I. walked through security uh 30,000 under.

My hat but eventually the casinos caught. on to their game and now Mike and his. team are banned from just about every. Casino in the world is that flattering. to you I'd much prefer to to be able to. play and still make money and still make. money we'll share some of Mike's. Blackjack secrets in just a minute but. first it's if you're wondering what one. of Las Vegas's most notorious card. players does now that he can't gamble. anymore we're going to add that to B cuz. together they're going to add up to 180. right he's still using his math skills. but not for money anymore and certainly. not for gambling here in fact in the. classroom he never even mentions his. previous Life as a card. shark wow I I would never guess that. from him instead he Volunteers in. Alexandria Virginia helping students. score big on the SATs he's smart now.

Before you start thinking why is a. former Vegas card shark in a classroom. setting keep in mind card counting is. not illegal it's just casinos apparently. don't like it when you win a lot of. their money you usually get something. like a tap on the shoulder and they'll. say something like Mike management has. decided that um you're no longer to. welcome to play black jack so how could. you get a piece of that Vegas pie. we ask Mike to share some of the tips. that made him rich and he says it all. starts with the. basics number one is is learn basic. strategy um play your hand you know gets. the Dealer's upcard according to you. know the the book as in following the. play charts you could buy at a casino. gift shop for a couple of bucks Master. those first and then move along to try. to count the cars here's the idea by.

Keeping track of certain cars cards you. can determine when the remaining cards. are in your advantage and then you bet. accordingly meaning if more low cards. have already been played that means more. High cards are still in the deck which. is what you want so you theoretically. would raise your bet does everybody. remember what the count is. now we set up a sample game with our. astute panel of amateurs Tony Perkins. Tucker Barnes and intern Christen and we. failed miserably this seems very. difficult to how does normal person you. know do all that math in their head. apparently it helps if you have a good. head for math but Mike assures us you. don't need an MIT brain to make this. work the math in card county is actually. not that it's not that hard it's the. arithmetic that you learn in in Middle. School pretty much so it's still plus.

Seven nine no plus nine plus nine. meaning there are nine more High cards. left in the deck than low cards are you. crazy I know we kept trying and failing. losing count until finally uh plus. 10 it was. plus very nice and we all go home. winners we have two Winners Big Winners. everybody you bet high at the right time. let's go to. Vegas well before we book that Charter. we learned that in Vegas apparently they. deal the cards a little faster than Mike. does and that there's more math involved. see it's not just how many high cards. are left in the deck it's how many high. cards are left divided by how many total. cards are left in the deck so now Tucker. has $4,000 on this let see how this. develops wow Tu party in the weather. center. tonight Mike never looked at card. playing is gambling he still doesn't to. him it's a business and if anyone ever.

ask him what he did I would just say I'm. an investor which you know in a matter. of speaking is actually is. correct playing not the stock market or. other common business risks instead. playing the tables doing what many. companies can't do make millions until. he wore out his welcome by mastering his. business strategy just a little too well. Steve Shany Fox 5. News more of Mike's winning ways at. myfoxdc.com just click on scen on TV for. a blackjack lesson and don't miss. tomorrow the Blackjack Pro will share. more of his Secrets live on Fox 5. Morning News