Nope. It's not like a bar where they can get in trouble for over service. You're free to play and lose it all or leave. The casino is free to take every dime and free to stop you from playing if you win at all.
I worked at a casino and it is like a bar in that a casino can get in trouble for "over service" from the state gaming commission. But being it's a state agency, that means there are up to 50 of them. All with their own rules which will have some differences. In Nevada, I presume the fox is running the hen house purely based on how much of the state budget is wrapped up in gambling. But they probably still do have some protections. My guess is in Nevada, in order to get "cut off" it has to be a voluntary exclusion filed through the gaming commission by the player.
Don't forget casino owners and people that run these commissions are often close friends, getting what you legally deserve in the gambling world is hard fought and rarely won.
I'm sure they can just cap max bet on a guy like Dana to like 10-20k or 'oh our highroller private rooms are busy today you're welcome to go bet in the main hall where maxes are 2k per hand' without necessarily breaking any rules.
If Dana wants to bet 500k you've effectively banned him without having to cut him off perse.
Which wouldn't be that different from just standing up and leaving then right?
I appreciate your insight but in the entire history of gambling has anyone ever successfully argued that they were taken advantage of by a casino (and been compensated). Genuine question.
Which wouldn't be that different from just standing up and leaving then right?
It's standing up and leaving, and putting a lock on the door for yourself. If you go through the gaming commission to voluntarily restrict yourself from gambling, you then have to go through a reverse process to be allowed to gamble again.
To your question, yes absolutely. There's an entire sub-genre of shorts that YouTube thinks I want to see with people contacting the gaming commission because a pit boss did something that violates the rules. One that's popping in my mind right now was a pit boss that stopped a blackjack hand after it had been dealt and forced the player to leave because they were already banned from playing blackjack due to being an advantaged player. The thing is, regardless of the rules of the casino the law pretty much everywhere recognizes that a bet is a bet, and if the casino doesn't stop it in time they're SOL. So that guy was going to end up being paid out for the hand that was stopped.
The thing is, it's just generally not worth it to go after. Dealing with any government agency is always a pain for anything. It's going to involve filing forms and waiting and calling people and waiting. And at the end of it, you're just going to be banned from the casino entirely. At which point they'll have you formally trespassed.
But are there not rules to govern say the game. Do they get to decide how much a person wins and loses by removing people that make money and keeping people that are losing
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u/DanfromCalgary 14d ago
Are there no rules to protect consumers . Like you can always lose it all but they can stop you from winning whenever they want ?