Comment by Fuzzwah
2 months ago
Cheung Yin ‘Kelly’ Sun. The tactic is called edge sorting [1], they played Baccarat and had the dealers turn certain cards 180 degrees "for luck".
Here's a great doco about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEkl2yAdoHw
Lots of coverage around the gambling news sites too:
https://highstakesdb.com/news/high-stakes-reports/phil-ivey-...
You are absolutely right, sadly i can't edit my original comment anymore. Also that's the exact documentary i got it from, thanks for posting it.
I thought this sounded familiar, and yeah it was covered here in the past https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7631091