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Re:A Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018) by GuB-42 on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @10:05AM (#20866543)
Casinos are private properties, they can kick you out for any reason without having to justify themselves. Playing too well is one of these reasons.

Of course, kicking you out is the only thing they can do. They can't take your earnings, prosecute you, detain you, or use force unless you resist. Usually the player will be kindly asked to cash-in and leave.

Security can track your play patterns, your gains and losses. Card counting result in very characteristic patterns, and if your gains are too consistent to be explained by chance alone, they are going to watch closely. If you are just lucky, they will offer you free drinks, if you are an advantage player, you will be asked to leave, if you are a cheater, you are going to have problems.

Edit: I think there are some places where casinos can't just kick people out for no reasons. But anyways, there are ways of making card counting impractical. The use of continuous shuffling machines is one of them.

Re:A Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018) by hansthehorse on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @11:32AM (#20867526)
Card counters increase their bets when the see the deck as favorable. The casino watches for patterns.
Re:A Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018) by cortesoft on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:00PM (#20867889)
And in fact, the casino also counts cards so they can correlate your bet changes with the state of the deck.
Re:A Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018) by jobigoud on Wednesday September 04, 2019 @07:43AM (#20876149)
> Casinos are private properties, they can kick you out for any reason without having to justify themselves.

I find this surprising. Aren't there any rules about having to serve everyone equally? Like non-discriminatory rules? A Casino could unilaterally bar entry to all people from a certain ethnicity and they wouldn't have to justify themselves? Is this true for all businesses?

It's really fishy that Casinos can say you can come play here unless you win.

Re:A Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018) by taco_emoji on Thursday September 05, 2019 @11:24AM (#20887632)
> A Casino could unilaterally bar entry to all people from a certain ethnicity and they wouldn't have to justify themselves?

Ethnicity is a protected class, so no, you can't just ban people based on that. "Being really good at gambling" is not a protected class.

Re:A Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018) by dsm4ck on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:01PM (#20867909)
Re:A Gambler Who Cracked the Horse-Racing Code (2018) by moate on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:29PM (#20868235)
That isn't "counting cards" that's edge sorting.

Counting cards isn't considered cheating because you're manipulating numbers in your head and in NJ, where the case happened, you can't be asked to leave a casino just for counting cards. Edge sorting is considered cheating as it's basically a form of marking cards. (This is an oversimplification of the rulings in the US