{"id":1578,"date":"2014-01-26T09:32:05","date_gmt":"2014-01-26T17:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beyondnumbers.lvablog.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2023-06-21T11:29:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T18:29:40","slug":"the-best-gambling-movie-of-all-time-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/gambling-with-an-edge\/the-best-gambling-movie-of-all-time-not\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Gambling Movie of All Time–Not!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend recently forced me to watch the movie “Casino” for the first time. You may be shocked that a professional gambler wouldn’t have already seen “Casino” twenty times, but Hollywoodizations of what we do for a living aren’t always so appealing. Besides, we be werkin’ all the time! It turns out that “Casino” is not a gambling movie; it’s “Goodfellas” in a casino (with the same movie director, screen writer, and cast!). So, it didn’t come close to unseating our #1 gambling movie (guess what that is!), but “Casino” still contained some valuable lessons for the modern casino AP:<\/p>\n

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Don’t be naive when it comes to chip hustlers, strippers, and Vegas party girls. Even though they may be “good-hearted,” they are usually trapped in a lifestyle of habitual drug use, hustling, and manipulation (ask me about “fake cancer”). When DeNiro gave Sharon Stone the only key to the safety deposit box with $2 million, and said it was the first time he trusted anyone like that, did you think that he was telegraphing the eventual train wreck, or that this was a love story that was actually going to work. Hint: Pretty Woman starred Richard Gere, Casino starred Robert DeNiro (and Joe Pesci).<\/p>\n

Don’t ignore heat. When a pit boss or casino manager is literally bending over to check the hole card, it’s time to leave! Note that since bosses are not trained hole-card players, their attempts to check the hole card often are as comical as depicted in the movie. I have seen bosses (and pathetic players) put their head on the rail, bend over, and sit at a dead table three tables away. A really cheesy move that only the cockiest and sweatiest bosses pull is actually sitting down at the table next to you while you play, pretending to be chummy. They think they’re really slick when they pull this one. Sometimes they even pick up your cards to play your hand for you. They don’t even know what they’re looking for, but they hope it will become obvious. It’s really pathetic.<\/p>\n

Don’t go to the cage after heat. I have said and written many times: Don’t go to the cage after heat. Since any session may have triggered heat you didn’t notice, it’s best to not even cash out immediately after a session, whether you saw heat or not. The BP in “Casino” went to the cage, got his chips confiscated, got backroomed, got barred, and risked torture. Even today, I hear about all kinds of problems from players who ignore this advice: Don’t go to the cage after playing!<\/p>\n

Industry people use the misnomer “weak dealer.” If a dealer makes a mistake in procedure (there are hundreds of procedures), it’s usually because they have not been trained properly or informed of the correct rule or procedure. This is usually not the dealer’s fault, but no one ever blames the “weak floorperson” or “weak pit boss” who failed to notice and correct the error. Isn’t it the job of surveillance to catch procedural breakdowns? Wasn’t it the Table Games Director who put the training systems in place? Wasn’t it the Casino Manager who hired the Table Games Director? Extracting money from a casino involves attacking a team–a corporation–attacking an entire system that put the game on the floor.<\/p>\n

The industry is not clean. The movie is based on characters connected to the Stardust into the 1980s. You think the mob and other scam elements that built the industry in Las Vegas are completely eradicated from modern casinos only 30 years later? You think that with probably $15 billion spent building the megaresorts of the last decade that none of it was diverted to shady enterprises? You think there are no corrupt managers and regulators?<\/p>\n

“They’re just our guests here.” In one scene, a Nevada Gaming Commission agent vows revenge against DeNiro for not granting a job to a kid who should be juiced in. That marks the beginning of DeNiro’s downward spiral. Here’s a secret: Nevada isn’t really part of the United States, and they know it. Nevadans have a mentality that is similar to the mentality in the Bahamas: “we locals” vs. “American tourists.” Nevadans deride the very tourists who are their lifeblood! It’s actually quite hypocritical, since many of the Nevadans are the lamest of the lame–they were so deluded or so addicted to the Vegas experience that they decided to move there! Of course, now they’re not just locals, they’re “savvy locals.” I’ve lived in Vegas for I don’t know how many years now, and it still isn’t home, or even homey.<\/p>\n

Keep dealing, and keep ’em coming back. DeNiro gets it. When a high roller wins $1 million or so, DeNiro isn’t worried. He knows that when you have a money-making machine, all you need to do is keep the thing plugged in! Keep the gambler happy, keep him coming back, and the numbers take care of themselves.  It’s idiot-proof.  Unfortunately for casinos, it’s not pit-boss-proof.<\/p>\n

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