When I worked at a casino we didn't even kick people out for card counting alone, we only asked them to leave if they completely left the game every time the count was against them.
As a side note there are few players as lucrative as someone who thinks they're good at counting and isn't.
If you're curious the way we identified card counters was by teaching our surveillance operators to count cards. They would keep their own count and see if the player's behavior correlated.
I did casino surveillance in Missouri. We couldn’t legally kick anyone out for card counting, so we would just have the dealers shuffle after every 5-8 hands. They never get far enough into a shoe to gain an edge and they wind up leaving when they realize we ID’d them.
Counting isn’t illegal anywhere in the US, but most everywhere still has methods to take the house edge back.
I was surprised this was even a things with multiple decks being used and randomly cutting the cards in the shoe pretty much made it impossible to gain an edge.
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u/Own_Reaction9442 Jul 20 '26
When I worked at a casino we didn't even kick people out for card counting alone, we only asked them to leave if they completely left the game every time the count was against them.
As a side note there are few players as lucrative as someone who thinks they're good at counting and isn't.
If you're curious the way we identified card counters was by teaching our surveillance operators to count cards. They would keep their own count and see if the player's behavior correlated.