I have a friend ...

Well, is it ethical to take unfair (but legal) advantage of a casino?

I have a friend, a small "investment banker," who is quite the ploppy martingale man.

He says that, regarding card counters, its unethical to play in a casino where they don't want you - its their house and they clearly don't want you in it - if someone doesn't want you in their house its not right to go in there. Etc.

He's a friend, but a big continuing LOSER! z:laugh:g

Ps - Cheat extraordinaire Dustin Marks said it best:

"These are not churches, they are casinos!"​

Good Question

Its a good question, its true: they dont want us there but we go anyways.
They publicly challenge the public to beat their games, with us we do and a have a right to play.
I dont know the answer but to quote from Idiocracy "I like money."
They're no angels, they ply people with drinks and let people gamble their houses away; however, two wrongs do not make a right.
I dont know.

They offer the game to the public and establish the rules. We follow their rules. To be mad at us because we don't follow their expected loss pattern, which is never publicized, is hypocritical. Look at their ads. Do they ever mention losing?

To hell with ethics in a casino. I would assume that most of us here are (hopefully) in the business of maximizing profits. If HC'ing, or any other legal AP technique, enables me to increase my profits, then I will do everything I can to take advantage.

The casino is obviously in the business of maximizing profits, and it is a mistake on their part if an employee is not adequately protecting the game. Casinos know the risks they are taking when offering decent games, despite the inherent house advantage. Does a casino think twice before barring AP's to play? NO!

So;
In ALL aspects of life, if someone is offering you a challenge, it's unethical to accept the challenge unless it's unfair to YOU. If you happen to know that you have the ability to meet his challenge, you're a scoundrel.

By this reasoning, it's unethical to accept an invitation to go to someones' house to play poker if you are a better poker player than him. He CLEARLY doesn't want you to outplay him.
-It's obviously unethical for a pro football team to go into another teams' stadium and THEN try to take advantage of any weaknesses they may observe. That team CLEARLY does not want to be beaten.
-If an investment banker comes across an undervalued security, it's unethical for him to advise his client to take advantage of the poor soul who has offered the sale too cheaply.

No WONDER he's a SMALL investment banker. :laugh:

AND they offer their "services" to the public. It is NOT unethical. But then again neither is water boarding and the US has declared it unethical. :grin:

[You just had to get that in, didn't you. :whip::whip::whip:]

*Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! That hurts!*

Ethics committee

Something pointed out was the fact that casinos don't exactly advertise their losers so much. For every dollar that someone makes out of a casino, there are a string of 99 people that LOST a dollar in that casino. Is it ethical for a casino to be pissed off that they didn't also score that 100th dollar? They have little to whine or complain about and they have little going on in the way of being "ethical"... Is there some sort of double standard that casino patrons must adhere to any sort of ethics? What is your silly friend saying exactly?

Have you ever noticed on TV ads for casinos, it's always slot winners? It's never a table game winner.

If casinos are permitted to exclude APs, they should be required to post house edge on every table game and machine. What's fair is fair.

Amen, brother, amen! Glory, hallalooyah and pass th' black chips!

USN SEALS: Oh hay, can we come in?
BIN LADEN: Nah, I want you in my house

But they do bring a lot of people to their knees. A:laugh:Z

They took my cash, dropped it down that little slot and gave me chips to play with. Sure sounds to me like they wanted me to play.

Once a business accepts your money you are a legitimate patron of that business.

...even if they have no intention of letting you win it back! :whip:

It's the casinos job to train their staff. If the dealer accidentally exposes her HC it's not my fault and I now have information to help me make decisions.

The lesser of two evils?

So what is the lesser of two evils? The house that has the advantage because the game is set up for them to make money or the player who has learned to take away that advantage. It is trully a conundrum for the righteous to decide if that is thier job or calling in life. I say "Bite Me" too bad I don't have x-ray eyes because I would take the casinos for everythng they are worth. Bawahahaha!:devil:

Casinos don't want you to lose. They want you to win. If you lose every hand, you'll end up never playing again. But every hand you win, the casino gets a small vig by not offering the true odds. Casinos love winners. If only on their terms.

I have seen casino's take a persons money, and take and take until they were broke. They are greedy bastards that know no mercy when taking your money. I have never heard a Pit Boss tell anyone to cut their losses and come back another day.....they encourage them to keep playing.

Ethical my ass.......take as much as you can without getting barred. Then take more!!

Just as APs tolerate short-term losses, casinos tolerate player's short-term wins. For both it's the long run that counts. Two sides of the same coin.

Nice analogy!

It's a war out there!