You can see solid proof of randomness and people’s utter rejection of it much more easily in the pits than in the poker room. Baccarat players write down the cards, looking for patterns.

"In poker, a player collects different pieces of information -- who's betting boldly, what cards are showing, what this guy's pattern of betting and bluffing is -- and then crunches all that data ...

Unlike poker, it requires no intuition or creativity ... “edge-sorting” that helped him identify beneficial cards from the patterns on their backs. It was cheating, they argued.