iPhone App Helps Gamblers Count Cards
A new card counting program in the iTunes app store may be illicitly helping gamblers beat the casinos at blackjack. The program is hard to detect, because it runs in "stealth mode" where the app can be used to count cards while the iPhone appears to be turned off. A Northern California Indian casino was the first to discover the program on its gambling floor, and quickly notified the California Bureau of Gambling Control to the app's existence. California then notified their Nevada counterparts to watch out for the app in Las Vegas casinos, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The program in question seems to be a publicly available app in the iTunes store called "Blackjack Card Counter," and filed in the iTunes app store as "A Blackjack Card Counter." The iTunes page for Blackjack Counter features a photograph declaring, "The iPhone App Casinos Hate!" The program has four strategies for counting cards, as well as the previously mentioned "stealth mode" where the screen goes black, but still works behind the scenes enabling a user to discreetly count cards.
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