Sunday’s Las Vegas Review Journal included a letter to the editor titled “Champion of all the players … that Harrah’s allows”. The author Bob Nersesian is well-known in advantage gambler circles, as an attorney with an outstanding track record in defending legal players from the often-illegal tactics used by local casinos to harass them.

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In a followup to my last post, Brodie has now been allowed back onto Harrah’s properties, and is now competing in the World Series of Poker events.  Read the latest couple of posts at his blog Lion Tales.

In his post “I can play” he says that he’s now allowed back, and says also “As usual everyone at Harrah’s was friendly and professional.”  Well, I guess he means other than the part where they told him not to set foot in one of their hotels again!  Whatever.

I hope he wins a bracelet somewhere along the way at this year’s WSOP.  It will make an interesting story for the press to cover if that happens.

It’s not just skilled blackjack players who incur the wrath of the casino powers-that-be. Any player that exhibits evidence of intelligent thought is subject to harassment by casinos. For example, Richard Brodie is a high-stakes player, and god knows he can afford it. As one of the original developers of the software now known as Microsoft Word, he’s got plenty of cash to spend however he would like. But, as you might guess, he’s no dummy.  He knows when he has the best of it in the casino.  He’s a talented poker player, and he also plays a lot of video poker, at limits that most of us can barely imagine.

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