Casino - Asked to leave

[Simon Galloway]

I take it your post is opinion and has nothing to do with fact or experience.

Regards

M


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In my youth I spent several years supervising blackjack (amongst other games) in a London casino.  You very quickly learn to spot who has the potential to be dangerous and who is concentrating a lot harder than normal.  Even in today's world of training freeware on the internet, blackjack players playing close to perfect are fairly rare.  Someone that routinely stands on 16 against a 7 for example are giving away such an edge that the chances of them springing to life as a successful card counter mid shoe are remote.  Whilst the guy concentrating really hard, playing perfectly and ignorning any attempts at conversation is more likely to be facing deep deck penetration very quickly.

I guess this is starting to stray from the point, yes it is my opinion, but my opinion is based largely on fact and experience AFAIK.

[Jaydeaa]

I have actually today been on the phone, on the back of some of the posts on this site, yes i was wrong to walk away and i was stone cold sober and like a twat should not of left my money, they counted my chips and im free to collect my money with proof of ID, but will have to surrender my membership and will receieve a letter from LCI within 7-10 days! lucky there are 2 casinos in southend i guess!


I did say, it was gut feeling, best mate etc, the response i got was, its policy!

[Graham C]

At least you can get your money back.

[Robert HM]

I have actually today been on the phone, on the back of some of the posts on this site, yes i was wrong to walk away and i was stone cold sober and like a twat should not of left my money, they counted my chips and im free to collect my money with proof of ID, but will have to surrender my membership and will receieve a letter from LCI within 7-10 days! lucky there are 2 casinos in southend i guess!


I did say, it was gut feeling, best mate etc, the response i got was, its policy!

I don't know what the situation is now but when the MIT lot were counting in Vegas they earned an international ban at all casinos. Andy Bloch got banned from a Vegas casino and that ban followed him to Monte Carlo, that was many years ago but was still stopped from entering the Vic a couple of years ago.

[Moskvich]

Is this really to do with the fact that you told your mate to take another card..? Even if you were counting and knew the deck was full of tens, whether or not your mate took another card would make no difference to the odds of the dealer getting a ten. So therefore the fact that you told your mate to take a card is no indication of card counting. Surely casino management, of all people, understand that..?

[dealerFROMhell]

Ah, the classic gamblers fallacy. Opening and closing boxes messes things up.

It makes absolutely no difference to the statistics of the game at all. Ludicrous.

[CRIPPIN]

Any update on this? What did LCI say in their letter, did you get banned from all their casinos?

[Jaydeaa]

Nope, I have a letter, but not going to disclose really what it says, until, The reply to my response! But i had no problems getting into a LCI in London on Saturday so who knows what theres playing at!