TruePain's Card Counting Backoff Misadventures
October 6th, 2024 at 9:15:54 PM
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TruePain's Card Counting Backoff Misadventures
I just started watching a few videos of his a couple hours ago, it randomly showed up in my algo feed so I don't have any prior knowledge of this guy.
He has a spy camera on his wristwatch or something (but the mic on it is bad and most everything overloads to unintelligible) and he films himself playing black jack at real casinos. Most of these edits are short until the backoff comes. Even the backoffs are cut for content. But he goes back to his car or hotel room and gives us an update on what's happening to his bankroll or session money on the visit. He even explains how he spreads his bets in this video on the drive to the casino. If I hadn't been paying attention before to card counter bet spreads, he has a couple for $25 or $50 tables, and he avoids $100 tables. He's working with a $50K bankroll and on a $25 table he's got a risk of ruin of 1% or so, on a $50 table it's 2%. Of course when he loses money his risk of ruin goes up, and when he wins money it goes down.
On a previous video, he didn't bring his ID and they wouldn't cash him out for over $3K. It's getting to be an old story among card counters that they rely on the $10K limit for the CTR when casinos start tracking people at $2.5K or $3K. So he had to return on 2 successive days to redeem his chips. Another time he was kicked out with over $3K in chips but they didn't demand ID because they were kicking him out.
In this video he explains his license plate doesn't match is address, he has a military ID and the casinos are refusing to accept that. He tried to re-enter a casino where he previously said he had no ID but this time had ID and they took his ID at the door and backroomed him. They informed the player that he'd been flyered all over the state (PA) by one casino, so no casino in the state wants to see him on their property anymore, or at least not at their BJ tables anymore.
He says he usually gets backed off when he returns to a casino he just left the day before without incident. So in this video, he returns, is eating breakfast in the food court and a state trooper shows up to trespass him before he ever got to the BJ tables. This player has a bad habit of refusing to accept ban letters or trespass letters being given to him by hand so he doesn't know what they wrote. It's like he's some sovereign citizen or something. Maybe that's what you're supposed to do when you get served, unserve yourself, idk.
This guy is getting flyered on previous videos in PA & Ohio. It's like an innocent day of blackjack is turning into a criminal record of bannings everywhere. But it makes me wonder about these casinos with big names stomping all over this guy. Is it the AP play they hate or is it they just hate anybody who walks out with a profit? There's more videos to watch, but I'll start with this one (and may just be a part 1 for this trip).
I just started watching a few videos of his a couple hours ago, it randomly showed up in my algo feed so I don't have any prior knowledge of this guy.
He has a spy camera on his wristwatch or something (but the mic on it is bad and most everything overloads to unintelligible) and he films himself playing black jack at real casinos. Most of these edits are short until the backoff comes. Even the backoffs are cut for content. But he goes back to his car or hotel room and gives us an update on what's happening to his bankroll or session money on the visit. He even explains how he spreads his bets in this video on the drive to the casino. If I hadn't been paying attention before to card counter bet spreads, he has a couple for $25 or $50 tables, and he avoids $100 tables. He's working with a $50K bankroll and on a $25 table he's got a risk of ruin of 1% or so, on a $50 table it's 2%. Of course when he loses money his risk of ruin goes up, and when he wins money it goes down.
On a previous video, he didn't bring his ID and they wouldn't cash him out for over $3K. It's getting to be an old story among card counters that they rely on the $10K limit for the CTR when casinos start tracking people at $2.5K or $3K. So he had to return on 2 successive days to redeem his chips. Another time he was kicked out with over $3K in chips but they didn't demand ID because they were kicking him out.
In this video he explains his license plate doesn't match is address, he has a military ID and the casinos are refusing to accept that. He tried to re-enter a casino where he previously said he had no ID but this time had ID and they took his ID at the door and backroomed him. They informed the player that he'd been flyered all over the state (PA) by one casino, so no casino in the state wants to see him on their property anymore, or at least not at their BJ tables anymore.
He says he usually gets backed off when he returns to a casino he just left the day before without incident. So in this video, he returns, is eating breakfast in the food court and a state trooper shows up to trespass him before he ever got to the BJ tables. This player has a bad habit of refusing to accept ban letters or trespass letters being given to him by hand so he doesn't know what they wrote. It's like he's some sovereign citizen or something. Maybe that's what you're supposed to do when you get served, unserve yourself, idk.
This guy is getting flyered on previous videos in PA & Ohio. It's like an innocent day of blackjack is turning into a criminal record of bannings everywhere. But it makes me wonder about these casinos with big names stomping all over this guy. Is it the AP play they hate or is it they just hate anybody who walks out with a profit? There's more videos to watch, but I'll start with this one (and may just be a part 1 for this trip).
Last edited by: ChumpChange on Oct 6, 2024
October 7th, 2024 at 2:39:33 AM
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This guy is a menace to himself, and it looks like he is more interested in notoriety on YouTube than in EV. Getting banned with a hidden camera on you is also a good way to get a felony charge for a device.
Pennsylvania is a treasure for straight counters. Lots of stores, best rules in the country set by law, playable sidebets, good pen usually available, and they will take large action and large spreads, within reason. With his spread there's no way he's getting banned and flyered on his first trip unless he is intentionally doing something to provoke them.
Pennsylvania is a treasure for straight counters. Lots of stores, best rules in the country set by law, playable sidebets, good pen usually available, and they will take large action and large spreads, within reason. With his spread there's no way he's getting banned and flyered on his first trip unless he is intentionally doing something to provoke them.
