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Originally Posted by DayTripping
Please do not blame the dealer in this case. Any high stakes baccarat game is going to have 1 or more floor people watching like hawks and they would be the ones to approve any rotating of the cards, not the dealer. You can bet the eye in the sky was watching as well. It's not like it was Ivey and a dealer by themselves and the dealer was allowing himself to be played like a fiddle. The dealer just deals the cards and does what the floor tells them to do.
I also find it bizarre that they would let the cards come out of the shoe before he made his bet. That is not standard procedure but I guess if you have a whale you'll let him get away with some stuff.
That's
not the allegation in the Complaint (but that is another way to benefit from edge sorting that was apparently used in like 2011 by other people). The Complaint doesn't allege that he requested a change in bet timing.
The Complaint alleges that Ivey
could see the first card in the shoe, and determine from the edge whether it was a 6-9 or not, and bet accordingly. The Complaint refers to this as "first card knowledge".