Here is a question for any and all.
Whether a person is counting and betting in relation to the count or simply just betting randomly but in both cases the person has huge betting swings, would that person get barred.
I do not see why a casino would throw someone out if they were not counting and fluctuating their bet from $5 - $250.
Any responses or knowledge would be nice.
Thanks,
Brendan
The ultimate answer depends on each casino and the sophistication of the pit crew. The bottom line is that casinos do not like people to win. On the other hand, I've been playing blackjack for a long time and I have never seen anyone but myself asked to leave, be half-shoed or limted in their betting action. Many posters on this board don't give the pit too much credit, but they seem to have caught most of us at time or another.
Some casinos and some casino employees just sweat the money, a smart casino will evaluate a player, figure out if he is playing at an advantage before backing him off.
A few years back I was at a casino that did not handle big action very well and was sharing a table with a guy who at this casino might have considered a whale. The guy did not count, he raised his bets sometimes from the table min to the table max, but the guy just could not seem to lose a big bet. At the same time I am counting but just holding my own and perhaps up about 3 units while this guy is up mid five figures in a flash.
Someone comes up behind him and politely backs him off. The guy is honestly in shock, gets a bit upset but probably decided to take his profit without too much of a fuss except for yelling out that this place throws out anyone who wins.
The result most likely is that this guy will lose that money back but he will lose it to some competitor of that sweaty place. A smart casino would have had someone offer the guy a room and meal and befriended him.
Casinos thrive on people who win periodically. Just like state lotteries. That's the mechanism that keeps them on the return ticket.
If mugs never won the stupid side bets once in a while, the casinos would lose their customer base pronto. What they don't want is the same ones who win consistently.
thanks
If he had the misfortune of getting thrown out in Mississippi or Louisiana for being a lucky non-counter who had wide bet variations based on hunches or other money management schemes he could well find himself barred in an entire region of the country just because one casino hit the panic button. Griffin and Biometrica would not be dumb enough to take this casino's word, but SIN flyers now go out regionally and if this casino sent them out on this player, say in Vicksburg, he would find himself unwelcome everywhere else in town and maybe in the entire MS/LA region.
The casino industry is the only industry where direct competitors take the other sides word on a potentially huge customer. If I had a casino I'd fax all of my best customers faces to my competitors and tell them that this guy is an advantage player so that I could keep the guy all to myself. One would have to figure that some enterprising casino has already done this before.
