Top Secrets Casinos (land-based) don’t want you to know:1) Some games are “good” games — or at least better:
“There are games tourists can play that they have better chances at,” says
Derk Boss, a licensed Nevada private investigator and casino security surveillance expert. For one, he points to traditional blackjack.
“You can reduce the house advantages by being a skilled player or studying the game,” he says.
He also likes video poker.
“That’s a game where there are strategies you can study,” he says. “It doesn’t guarantee you’re going to win, but it gives you a much better chance. It’s going to reduce the house advantage and put things a little bit more in your favor.”2) Everything you see is designed to keep you in the casino:
No windows and no clocks.
“Two in the morning is the exact same thing as two in the afternoon,”. Some casinos have gone to desperate, and sexy, measures to keep you there and gambling.
“They have stripper poles, they have party pits,” Sal says. “You go to Vegas right now, it looks like a gentlemen’s club. You see girls dancing on the poles. It keeps the guys at the table.”3) Security is probably watching you… for your entire stay:
“Casinos are very well-covered with surveillance cameras”. “Once someone arrives at our property, if we needed to put together their movements over their entire stay, we could easily do so. We would be able to track their movements on the property just about wherever they went — except for like the bathroom and into their hotel room.”4) And if you win big, they’re definitely watching you:
“When someone is winning a lot of money, they’re always going to get checked by us”. “They’re not going to know it, of course. Say a guy wins $100,000 on a blackjack game. I just want to make sure that it’s legal, that he didn’t cheat, that he didn’t count cards or something like that.”5) One place the casino probably isn’t watching you too closely: the poker rooms:
“Believe it or not, we don’t spend a whole lot of time on poker at all,” says Derk.
For one, since poker players play against each other, and not the house, the casino doesn’t have much money at stake. The poker players themselves, do, however, and that’s the second reason why casino security staffers don’t need to monitor poker rooms that closely."6) The dealers feel bad for you:
“I can feel sorry for the guy, but I can’t say, 'Sir, you’ve lost enough, you’d better walk away”. “It’s not my job. There’s nothing I can do.”7) Yes, dealers sometimes steal:
Dealers just reaching in, grabbing a chip and shoving it in their pocket,” Sal says. “Nothing sophisticated.” That’s the reason behind all those strange rituals you may see dealers do. “Everything the dealers do was put in place for a reason,” Sal says. For example, when a dealer leaves a table, they have to “clear their hands.” “They clap their hands and turn their hands palm up and palm down for the camera to show, 'I’m not stealing nothing,’” says Sal.
Now you know 
(Source: Fox.News)Edited by user Sunday, December 22, 2019 10:37:47 AM(UTC)
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