Originally Posted by
gabosaurus
My husband's sister, who is a floor supervisor at a Vegas casino, says card players are often sucked in by their own success. The good players will go on a run, then get up and leave. Or, conversely, will quit if they have a run of bad hands.
The suckers will go a couple of thousand up, then get overconfident and give it back. That is why the casinos reward players who spend a lot of time at the tables. Because they know that the long-term odds are never in the players' favor.
Card players are very superstitious. If someone wins big at a table, they will return to the same table. If there is a different dealer, they get really upset.
Card counters and other cheats only succeed once. There is so much surveillance, live and on tape, it is unreal. They can take a photo of you and run it through a computer. If you are banned, an alarm will go off if you try to enter any casino in Vegas.
Pretty amazing shit.
One myth I had disproved is that the casinos want slot players to lose. They actually want you to win, and make a big deal of it when you do. Winning big jackpots draws in more people. A big win encourages everyone in the general vicinity.