by I. Nelson Rose | Feb 13, 2021 | Articles, Columns
Government regulators ought to at least pretend to be neutral. This is particularly true of regulators whose main job is to protect the public. Imagine the Atomic Energy Commission saying nuclear power plants can set their own safety standards, and anyway, there is...
by I. Nelson Rose | Dec 19, 2020 | Articles, Columns
It is time to look again at the controversy over the right of casinos to shuffle cards in blackjack whenever the remainder of the deck favors the players. Although the issue of casino dealers counting cards has been stewing for decades, the most recent flare-up is the...
by I. Nelson Rose | Nov 13, 2020 | Articles, Columns
It seems the eye in the sky has acquired a brain. The watchers have learned to count cards. Casinos have installed computer programs that can tell whether players are counting cards at blackjack. By recording how players change the size of their wagers and how they...
by I. Nelson Rose | Jun 1, 2020 | Blogs
In my last two blogs, I discussed the existential problem facing the gaming industry: All forms of legal gambling were invented in the 1800s or much earlier, and Millennials and their younger siblings hate them. Of course there have been technological developments. ...
by I. Nelson Rose | Oct 22, 2019 | Blogs
In July, 2014, newspapers ran a copyrighted Bizarro cartoon by Dan Piraro with the caption, “Kirk and Spock travel back in time to 2014.” The two Enterprise officers are standing on a street corner. Two guys are pointing at them and laughing: “Ha ha! Where’d...
