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Not only are the games designed by the casinos to their advantage but if someone actually starts consistently winning, they just get banned and sometimes refuse
by akiselev 3y ago
Not only are the games designed by the casinos to their advantage but if someone actually starts consistently winning, they just get banned and sometimes refused a payout. It's set up to be heads the house wins, tails the customer loses.
- wincy 3y agoI watched a documentary on this the other day, with a guy traveling around the country playing blackjack. Multiple times he had to call the gaming commissioner or the sheriff to get his $40,000 in chips cashed. Even one time when he hadn’t played a single game.
- shocks 3y agoDocumentary name? I’ve also been following Steven Bridges on YouTube and it’s super interesting!
- kelnos 3y agoWait, I don't get the last bit. Did he go to the casino, exchange $40k in cash for chips, not gamble at all with them, and then take the chips to the cashier to get it changed back to cash? That's... weird? I feel like as a casino it'd not be unreasonable to think something fishy was going on, like the guy was making a (somewhat clumsy?) attempt to launder money. But overall... yeah. Certainly a casino has the right to refuse service to whomever they want -- such as someone who's counting cards (not that counting works at blackjack these days, since no casino deals out a single full deck at a time anymore) -- but the idea that they don't feel they have to honor whatever payouts owed up to the point of kicking someone out... messed up.
- School-Cotton 3y agoThe chips were probably from a previous session.
- analog31 3y agoI suspect if it doesn't work that way, we will start bailing out the casinos that go bankrupt, and subsidizing them, because jobs.
- sacnoradhq 3y agoReno and Stateline are casino company towns. Also, the Native tribe casinos are similar operations but probably don't have the same political clout.
- paulpauper 3y agoNot only are the games designed by the casinos to their advantage but if someone actually starts consistently winning, they just get banned and sometimes refused a payout. It's set up to be heads the house wins, tails the customer loses. It is not sometimes. They will strait up not pay if fraud is suspected.