Because they didn't win a game, they took advantage of a rigged deck. Also they're being sued for exceeding the betting limits. "The gamblers unlawfully took advantage of the Golden Nugget when they caught on to the pattern and increased their bets from as little as $10 to $5,000 and by passing money to fellow gamblers in order to place bets in excess of posted betting limits."
How did the table allow the betting limit to be exceeded? Why didn't they stop it right at the time, and only wait until they lost to decide to retroactively enforce their own rules?
Apparently the pit boss knew something was up but didn't stop the game. Which squarely puts the fault in the casino. The casino could easily have closed that table.
> How did the table allow the betting limit to be exceeded?
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by passing money to fellow gamblers in order to place bets in excess of posted betting limits.
They posted a bet, and also gave some of their money to another player to post another bet, effectively circumventing the betting limits on individual players. That's not necessarily an obvious behavior. And if the casino didn't know the decks were rigged, why would they close the table and risk angering a bunch of high rollers?
Yes, I saw that. The limit generally applies per seat or per bet. A reference that this applies to a physical body of meat would be awesome.
And if the casino didn't know the decks were rigged, why would they close the table and risk angering a bunch of high rollers?
To not have to pay out lots of money if something is wrong. But I guess they could just wait to see if the players don't end up giving it all back in the end.
I think that a "rigged deck" assume someone knowingly did something. In this case, from the story, this was an accident and not intentional.
Of course even if the deck was rigged (say someone at the manufacturer turned off the shuffle process) while it would be defacto rigged I'm not sure it would be dejure rigged because there was no connection between the gamblers and the person doing the rigging.
An ordered deck is one arrangement from the set of randomly arranged decks. If the company ensures that decks are not ordered then they're not random. How can it be shown that the deck wasn't shuffled ... indeed if it can then the shuffling is non-random and this appears to amount to some sort of fraud in itself.
Do playing card manufacturers that sell shuffled decks make some sort of call on when a deck is not shuffled "enough". Knowing this information would allow more efficient models to be made for card counters, etc..
