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Casinos are always a scam, you can’t win, and if you find a way they kick you out.
Someone should tell Anon that him leaving with his kneecaps intact is only a recent development.
It’s allowed because they can do whatever they want. It’s their table and their cards. As long as they don’t welch on payouts that you’ve already earned, they can kick you out for any reason (except belonging to a protected class), or for no reason.
On this note, don’t gamble in casinos on reservations. They are not subject to federal regulations, and they absolutely do kick you out without paying if you win big enough.
Do I get kicked out if I belong to the same tribe?
Depends on if they like you or not.
Casinos absolutely do refuse to pay out all the time. Literally just Google it.
Every class should be a protected class.
Err, what? Do you want it to be illegal to kick someone out for wearing a swastika? That’s a “class” of people.
We use the law to protect marginalized people, not just any category of asshole we can think of.
Only in casinos, though. It’ll be the new wild west - a gambler’s marketplace of ideas, where only those lucky enough to win big can spread their ideologies.
marketplace
demonstrably rigged game fueled by ignorant rubes who all think that they’re the only person there who isn’t and where the only way to consistently win is to already be a winner
Checks out
I think you two are talking past each other. “People wearing swastikas” is not a class of people because nazism isn’t a religion. They are just people making a choice to wear a shitty and offensive armband. Classes are about things people either couldn’t possibly help; such as nationality, race, sex, disability, color…or things so closely tied to their identity that they should never be expected to change; such as gender, sexuality, and religion.
Then there are some outside of the standard discourse as well, like prisoners are a protected class when it comes to psychological research.
Politics are an interesting issue, although not a class. California, for instance, prohibits employment discrimination based on engaging in certain protected political activities. So if you attended a Nazi rally, you might be legally protected in California from having your employment terminated.
Except that the introduction of multiple decks for a single table made card counting all but useless
I call shenanigans
It still works, just not as well. There are plenty of youtube videos teaching how to count cards even with multiple decks.
Sure, but automatic shufflers are getting more and more common. Not to mention, you have to have a fairly large starting pot to have a hope of making a decent profit. Then even if you do everything right, you still have a relatively high chance of going in the red.
If you have a group of 10 all putting in 7k that’s a lot of money to gamble with pretty good gains
Not necessarily true. People still succeed at card counting with 6 deck shoes. The main problem is that you need a lot of capital for the odds to eventually even out in your favor. Even in the bast case scenario, you still only have a 1% advantage. There are counting groups that will pool tons of money and then split the total winnings as to maintain a higher average winnings.
Actually, 6 deck shoes, still slow for counting.
What has killed counting is casino’s shuffling after every hand you a single deck.
Unfortunately for anon, “understands basic probability” is not a protected class under the civil rights act.
Too small of a minority
I have never been to a casino. Is that how it works? Seems a lot like a scam if you’re not allowed to use skill in a skill game.
The reason they’re profitable is because all games have a negative average EV (expected value) for the player. Card counting allows you to play in a manner that is +EV, so it has to be banned.
The relevant law is “The house always wins.”
They mostly don’t care unless you’re at the high roller table. And even then, unless you’re using a device to cheat, the most they can do is pay out your chips and escort you outside. It’s not a crime to count cards, but it’s still their table.
Its not meant to be a skill game. You can make it one, but it’s intended to be a game with fixed odds that favor the house.
With that being said, in places where they’re legal casinos tend to have really broad leeway over who they’re allowed to kick out and why.
These days, casinos are trying to eliminate “skill” from blackjack entirely. You’ll have six decks, and as soon as a hand is done, everything gets shuffled back together. That makes counting cards practically impossible, even with perfect playing. Counting cards mostly works when you’re playing with a single deck, and it doesn’t get shuffled immediately after each hand.
Private business
If you go into a Walmart and start talking to employees about unions, you’ll get escorted out.
Anon doesn’t need to guess hit or stand. They can just memorize the table for the casino’s rule variant.
Counting cards can help adjust the bet, if they think the rest of the decks in the shoe are favorable.
Exactly, making the right call is not card counting.
Card counting is used in tandem with structuring your bets so you know when to get big and when not to.
No one is going to kick you out for making the correct decision, they are going to kick you out after watching your betting habits.
Card counting requires multiple people at the table surreptitiously working together. Anon needs to watch a video on how to count cards.
At it’s simplest card counting involves keeping track of how many hard 10s (10, k, q, j) there are in the shoe, assuming you know how many decks are in the shoe and that the discard isn’t reshuffled into the shoe too often. When you find yourself in a situation where there are a lot of tens still in the deck but a lot of the smaller value cards have been played, you bet heavily and stand on low values hoping that the dealer will tend to bust (in most casinos a dealer will hit on 15 or below and stand on 16 or above, more tens in the deck means it’s more likely that the dealer will bust, yielding a small statistical advantage to the player in a tens-heavy scenario)
