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Electronics Enter the Players’ Arsenal

Electronics Enter the Players’ Arsenal
During this same time period, Keith Taft began developing the first concealed blackjack computer, and by 1972, Keith had started using a computer in the Nevada casinos to play “perfect” blackjack. Nevada had no laws at that time prohibiting the use of devices at their tables. Keith’s first computer weighed fifteen pounds. He went on to develop dozens of concealable computers and other electronic devices over the next two decades, ever smaller and more powerful. By the mid-’70s, Keith and his son, Marty, had met Al Francesco, and they would be putting together teams of players using computers to beat the blackjack tables.

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The casinos’ fear of counters, and the failure of John Scame to provide any workable protection from the threat, opened a huge market for Robert Griffin’s services. Griffin was essentially telling the casinos that they did not need card-counting experts on their staffs to identify counters at their tables. Griffin would compile the names and photos of counters from all of the casinos in Las Vegas, updating his mug book monthly, and the casinos simply had to subscribe to his service to get the book. Just about every major casino in Las Vegas subscribed.

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