Why Don't They Try to Beat Blackjack?

Quote: DJTeddyBear

Holy crap! Now counting, which previously merely sounded like work, now sounds like a job!
News flash: I got a job. I also got someone who often tells me what and when to do stuff. "Wife."
I go to a casino to escape, and to HAVE FUN!

LOL... okay TeddyBear, fair enough. Point made.

But note I said it'd only be for an hour or so, out of all the time that you normally spend in the casino doing whatever you like already.

What's the SHORTEST amount of time that you personally ever head downtown to the casino for?

For me, even though it's only 10 minutes drive away, I don't usually bother going unless I can spend at least 5 or 6 hours at the tables.

Are you really saying that ONE hour of team "work" allocated in with FIVE hours of personal "playtime" is really asking too much, for a very likely "guaranteed" earnings payment, for the effort? Really?

BTW wouldn't that one hour of "hey, gotta go to work, honey: gotta go make some money" excuse also be helpful for buying yourself those other five hours of play time from the wife? LOL

And wouldn't it be HAVING FUN to lay down some heavy action on the felt (not to mention on your player's card comp points) using TEAM CHIPS that you don't have to directly care about win or loss, for that one short session? How is that "work only" and not also FUN, even *if* you do have to follow directions from a team member monitoring your play?

-DBJT

I wrote a show for Travel Channel "What Would You Do If?" about the legal issues involved when a person plays in a casino. For example, if you find a chip on the floor is it "finders keepers" or does the chip belong to the casino? If you see credits on a machine are the credits yours because you are sitting down at the machine or are the credits the casinos?

I went to the Nevada casino control commission and had a lengthy interview with (I wish I could remember the guy's name!) and here is what I learned:

1. chip on floor belongs to casino
2. credit in machine belongs to casino
3. dice control is legal

Here is what pertains to this discussion:

1. hole carding is legal as long as you aren't bringing in a mirror or something such as that
2. any mistake in payouts that you keep without telling the casinos is LEGAL (this blew me away)

It was up to the casino to protect its hole cards and it was up to the casino to make sure the payments are correct. (Obviously if the casino sees it made a mistake, the dealer/pit can correct it but if it doesn't discover it, perfectly legal to keep the extra payout.)

Now there is the moral issue of what you would do in some situations but this is what I discovered when I interviewed (whomever!). The show went on the air around 2003, I think, so maybe things have changed since then.