How do you think the Casino's Feel about "21"

[Carmine782]

A) They are excited, business will raise, revenue will raise

B) They are Nutural, it wont make any difference at all

C) They are worried, everyone is going to learn how to count cards.

[shadroch]

Publicly traded companies take a rather different view of things than we do.
The last thing they want is a temporary surge in revenue.Thats actually a bad thing for the bean-counters,as once they hit a certain mark in a quarter,its expected they will do it everytime.
I don't think the movie is going to make much of a difference in their bottom lines.

[sagefr0g]

i think they are licking their chops but Shadroch does got a point. these birds think budget and along those lines.

[Cardcounter]

In fact yesterday I saw the Las Vegas convention promotoing "21" Blackjack became very popular when Beat the Dealer came out at first the casinos tightened their rules the wrong way you could only double on "11" that made people run from the game. Now the casinos have rules in vegas that gives the house a huge house edge that ploppies will except a 6 to 5 blackjack payout to be able to double down on any two cards and after a split giving them a bigger house edge than double on "11". Second most people that see the movie even if they where to pick up how to count make to many basic stragedy mistakes too play a winning game even if the casino offered good rules.
The movie "21" is like a slot player holding up a $1,000,000 check for hitting a slot jackpot. Saying hay look at all the money such and such won here and you can too so try your luck at blackjack.
If the player plays at a 6 to 5 table he will have a little to no shot at making money even for his short trip to vegas he will give his money to the dealer play a couple of hours and go home with less than he started with.

[Ferretnparrot]

I had a thought the other day that in the dawn of the movie there will be a huge delay in time before additial proficient card counters actually start hitting the casinos, since you cant just become a card counter overnight.

I think the casinos will have reacted and gotten over it before this happens

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by Ferretnparrot

I had a thought the other day that in the dawn of the movie there will be a huge delay in time before additial proficient card counters actually start hitting the casinos, since you cant just become a card counter overnight.

You did, didn't you? zg

[Ferretnparrot]

Originally Posted by zengrifter

You did, didn't you? zg

no I surfed the web for info and practiced at hitorstand.net and read books for 5 months prior to turnign 21, and even then once i hit the casinos it still took another month before i felt i had it down 100% to the point where i was teaching myself things instead of reading from a book.

[SystemsTrader]

Originally Posted by Carmine782

A) They are excited, business will raise, revenue will raise

B) They are Nutural, it wont make any difference at all

C) They are worried, everyone is going to learn how to count cards.

Planet Hollywood actually has the ads for this game right on the felt on about half of their blackjack tables so obviously they aren't worried about it.

[EasyRhino]

Originally Posted by Ferretnparrot

there will be a huge delay in time before additial proficient card counters actually start hitting the casinos

Yes, but there might be an immediate uptick in inept card counters, it will be interesting to see.

[sagefr0g]

Originally Posted by EasyRhino

Yes, but there might be an immediate uptick in inept card counters, it will be interesting to see.

so maybe the casino's will be watching as well just to make sure they are inept. watching their bottom line as well maybe to see just how the movie affects that. maybe if things go well for them they'll sponser another movie.