r/lovethissmug • • 17d ago

😻 Meme Or Other Online Trope 😂 Soyjaks clearly based off of events OP experienced

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u/OnlyAShip 16d ago edited 16d ago

> card counting isn’t against the rules

> you will be barred from playing because of it

Pretty sure the casino is ruling against it.

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u/frikiman4K 16d ago

because they don't want you winning too much, so they will kick you out, but since you actually didn't do anything that broke the rules you can keep your earnings

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u/RawrRRitchie 16d ago

They're not gonna kick you out unless you're winning hundreds of thousands in a couple hours. The high rollers spend more than the couple thousand someone would win counting cards at a blackjack table

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u/OnlyAShip 16d ago edited 16d ago

So it’s not a rule… just an understanding about how to conduct yourself within the game for which you will face sanction over violating.

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u/FishyFishy4985 16d ago

You're getting kicked out because you're losing them money. They don't give a fuck why it's happening or what your strategy is. You could just be one in a billion lucky and you'd get kicked out all the same

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u/OnlyAShip 16d ago edited 16d ago

They kick you out because they think you are card counting/cheating. Luck is not real to casinos, your one-in-a-billion luck only pushes the probability of you cheating over their Bayesian priors about whether they can be sure that you aren’t.

Up until sufficient suspicion, a casino actually wants a “lucky” person to stay on the property so they can take their money back. A non-cheating “lucky” person is even more appealing a customer than when he walked in.

Before they read your luck as something more, any money they’ve lost is more money they can take from you.

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u/TurboChomp 16d ago

Card counting isn't against the rules, winning is

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u/phantomfire50 16d ago

Depends how you look at it. They'll still give you the money you've won from card counting, even if they don't want to let you win any more. They'll withold it if you actually cheat.

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u/Banonkers 16d ago

It’s also worth knowing that with Blackjack, you don’t get (much) more money just by counting cards. Instead you vary your bet, and put more money down when you’re more likely to win.

This is pretty visible on the casino cameras, and it’s normal for the casino to come and tell the card counter “You can carry on playing, but you have to keep your bets the same size” or something like that, since then the casino will basically break even

The casino is a private business, so they can ask any customer to stop playing and leave if they want to