I’ve mentioned the idea of opening up a dealer on a hole card game a few times and someone in chat asked me what I meant. In this post I’ll explain how to manipulate a dealer to create a better hole card opportunity on a shoe game.
The Big Picture
Hole card shoe games are finicky and annoying. They’re also valuable and naturally have less heat than hand dealt games.
Holecarding is not where a casino boss or surveillance operator’s head goes when they see action on a shoe or especially a continuous shuffle machine.
Fire away on a 6/5 CSM and you’re more likely to get attention for being stupid enough to fire on a 6/5 CSM than you are to get suspicion that you’re playing the hole card.
Reading hole cards on shoes and CSMs are almost exactly alike. The way the dealer handles their hole card will be with the same motion.
Opening up a dealer on a CSM is not the same.