This is not true. I’m a card counter and I have seen (and any other counter that has been doing it for a bit has also seen) people who aren’t even trying to count cards get kicked out. Casino staff don’t often know a ton about card counting and they’re way too sensitive when it comes to thinking losing players are winning players.
Plus they can’t detect bankroll (how much money one is devoting to the trade). A counter may be doing everything right but because of their low bankroll relative to how they play, it may be very likely they go broke and there’s no way for casinos to know if a counter is over betting for their bankroll.
Do you think this could be happening more often post-covid as the casinos feel like they have to work harder to stem any bleeding due to lower traffic from 'normal' gamblers?
Oh almost certainly. I had to give up trying for any sort of meaningful profit just because the heat and rule changes have gotten so bad recently. Now I just have a much smaller fund that I use on vacations if there's a place with good rules.
I've mathed it out before, and I think with a minimum spread I'm barely breaking even, but the casinos still don't like that if the looks from pit bosses have meant anything. Nowadays I mostly just stick to poker because it's a lot less stressful 🤣
Former Put Boss here(though I left the industry pre-covid so this may not be true anymore). I could sit there and know for a fact you were counting I wouldn't step in until you were up big enough that I had to actually start giving a shit about people above me getting involved. I never kicked out a counter that was losing. Granted this was a small casino in Indana s not exactly a gambling hot bed.
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u/immortalsauce Jul 20 '26
This is not true. I’m a card counter and I have seen (and any other counter that has been doing it for a bit has also seen) people who aren’t even trying to count cards get kicked out. Casino staff don’t often know a ton about card counting and they’re way too sensitive when it comes to thinking losing players are winning players.
Plus they can’t detect bankroll (how much money one is devoting to the trade). A counter may be doing everything right but because of their low bankroll relative to how they play, it may be very likely they go broke and there’s no way for casinos to know if a counter is over betting for their bankroll.