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Completely legal. You're just playing the game they offer, and using your brain.

They were given the camera phone so it could be shown to tourists. Everything they saw was carefully orchestrated.

I called it, some stupid porno-chat line.

It's not considered cheating anywhere anymore. They usually just politely ask you to not play backjack anymore. If you keep pushing it, eventually they'll throw you out and bar you.

Card counting isn't really all that profitable, and it's easy to pick off.

But it would be in the casinos' interest to tolerate it, as the aura of a winnable game brings the suckers in, and most counters are a trivial threat financially.

Very similar, but kind of the opposite of capping a bet. It's called "pinching" a bet. He called it the "savannah" for some reason.