Your casino friend is pulling a fast one on you. it is mathematically impossible to "control" the game by playing all the stations.
In Vegas, they have blackjack games which is dealt from a shoe rather than continuous shuffler. This is however more of a gimmick rather than because the casinos don't know about card counting. Card counting is only effective if you have deep penetration of the decks. If you have shallow penetration (i.e. cut at less than the half way mark), it is generally almost impossible for random chance to throw up a deck which is statistically biased to offer advantage play.
A simple effective way therefore to make a manual shoe deck "invulnerable" to card counting is to therefore load up a autoshuffler with at least double the number of decks that are going to be played. The machine is then programmed to deal out the required 6 to 8 decks. Your wannabe card counter can then count till the cows come home and never gain a significant advantage.
In Vegas, they have blackjack games which is dealt from a shoe rather than continuous shuffler. This is however more of a gimmick rather than because the casinos don't know about card counting. Card counting is only effective if you have deep penetration of the decks. If you have shallow penetration (i.e. cut at less than the half way mark), it is generally almost impossible for random chance to throw up a deck which is statistically biased to offer advantage play.
A simple effective way therefore to make a manual shoe deck "invulnerable" to card counting is to therefore load up a autoshuffler with at least double the number of decks that are going to be played. The machine is then programmed to deal out the required 6 to 8 decks. Your wannabe card counter can then count till the cows come home and never gain a significant advantage.
That's what my 'casino friend (or rather acquaintance)' says...he is able to see how many big/small cards open and from there can 'guess' how many big/small cards going to open?? I'm no expert, you may have better analysis on this, as with yr slot analysis? glad to hear fr you.