Before filming the new Batman movie, Ben Affleck and his wife Jennifer Garner headed to Las Vegas for the weekend. According to numerous reports, the married couple went to Hard Rock Casino on April 29 trying their luck at the blackjack tables.
Besides being a decent poker player, Mr. Affleck apparently is pretty good at counting cards in blackjack. The fact is he won $800,000 in one single sessi[...] Read more » Ben Affleck Banned From Las Vegas Casino's Blackjack Tables
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Counting is not that hard, once you've got your practice, but even if you are doing it as a small timer with petty cash, they will evetually recognize why you are betting big whenever the deck heat up. Also, why would a multi-million dollar movie star bother doing this is beyond me, but hey gambling could be addictive even for rich people.
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It always saddens me when casino's ban people for what it seems like the only thing they did wrong was win. Good luck to Ben Affleck i say and i hope he wins big again somewhere else
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Posted by doubletop777: It always saddens me when casino's ban people for what it seems like the only thing they did wrong was win. Good luck to Ben Affleck i say and i hope he wins big again somewhere else
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haha yeah banned from black jack though house is supposed to have an edge guess Ben is lucky or just can grind out an edge on black Jack it is possible if you know maths and so so. Also nice from the casino to banned him just because he is good. It shows blackjack is beatable if you try to. But too much hassle!
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It seems harsh to ban someone for being good at the game but think about the implications if they didn't.
Card counting is not that difficult a skill to master and if it was allowed there would be a lot of people doing it. The casinos would be hemorrhaging money and would have to close or stop offering blackjack.
So it's a choice of either ban card counting or close the blackjack tables.
So if you are lucky and you are winning, you are banned from the casino. According to this logic the casino doesn´t want anybody to win there, they want only people who are losing their money. Greedy scumbags!
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It seems incredible that casino's are allowed to kick people out becuase they are winning. It seems more bizarre the more you think about it. But, any shop you go into reserves the right not to sell you the things on display, so I guess it's along the same lines in a casino - we will allow you in here but if we want we can stop you playing.
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Nope, people don't get banned from casinos for being lucky and winning they get banned for using a strategy that gives the player, rather than the house, an edge. Totally different thing.
I'm not trying to defend the casinos I'm just being realistic. If they didn't do this they wouldn't be a profitable business and soon there would be no casinos at all.
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Posted by zeroster: Nope, people don't get banned from casinos for being lucky and winning they get banned for using a strategy that gives the player, rather than the house, an edge. Totally different thing.
I'm not trying to defend the casinos I'm just being realistic. If they didn't do this they wouldn't be a profitable business and soon there would be no casinos at all.
so your saying it's ok for the house to have an edge but the player can't. not nice at all. imo
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Posted by ddblt1970: Of course the player can't have an edge,
but they can't ban every player who is lucky enough and wins something.
Exactly, if your playing optimal strategy that's fine the house still has an edge albeit a very slight one but once the player starts counting they tip the edge in their favour and the casinos can't allow it. It would be like selling $100 items for $99.99 it doesn't sound like much but eventually you go bust.
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Really? This sounds like a joke, he won 800k with black jack in only one session? Or only in a new movie? Perhaps he changed his carreer to a black jack pro- gl at the tables ben
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casinos should be banned from banning. They make billions and when someone takes a little back they get banned. If I ever got banned I would use the winnings to sue the bastards.
------------ "If they didn't do this they wouldn't be a profitable business and soon there would be no casinos at all."
so what you are saying is that Casinos rip off their players. Shut them down then!
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so what you are saying is that Casinos rip off their players. Shut them down then!
No, what I'm saying is that casinos aren't a public service they are profit making businesses. No profit no casin0. I'm amazed people find that so hard to understand.
Too good at black jack yeah right. You can make the right decisions everytime and lose everytime you bet big. Luck is always a factor. Maybe if they wait enough he goes broke
