The theory is that the presence of the “cooler” in and of itself will, in turn, give bad luck to the rest of the table. A cooler is a casino employee who is sent to tables to stop winning streaks. – In the 2003 movie The Cooler, William H. Most security guards are honest, hardworking people with normal lives who aren’t looking to beat someone up every chance they get. While you can refuse them service, you can’t beat them up (and counting cards isn’t against the law). You can’t have security beat someone up for counting cards. – Again, you can blame the movie 21 for this, although we’ve seen it in many movies and TV shows.

Casinos don’t hire goons to beat you up.

While that certainly is a profit, you’d likely be better off getting a full-time job than trying to make money counting cards. Even the real-life MIT blackjack team would go days and weeks without winning, and the average yearly salary for the team was $25,000. To even be able to play that many $100 hands you’d need a bankroll of about $20,000. While counting cards is a relatively straightforward endeavor, you will likely only make $10.00 an hour if you play $100 a hand while counting cards. However, this could not be farther from the truth. In this movie (and several others) we see geniuses use their brilliance to bilk casinos for thousands in quick and easy fashion. – The movie 21 (2001) is the heavily fictionalized account of the famous MIT blackjack team’s exploits.

You can’t win millions of dollars counting cards.

Profits from Native American casinos are used to fund social programs, education, and are often reinvested in the community. That goes double for Native American casinos, which are highly regulated and codified. While the mob did run some Las Vegas casinos in the past, modern casinos are nothing like the shady organizations depicted on television. – Movies like Casino(1995) show casinos being run as front organizations or behind bankrolled by the mob.

Casinos aren’t run by shady, unscrupulous people and/or the mafia.

Below are the 5 things the movies get wrong about gambling and casinos. However, Hollywood has also given us a lot of myths and misconceptions about casinos. Films like Ocean’s 11 (2001) make casinos look fun and glamorous. Yes, even despite John Malkovich’s terrible Russian accent. The 1998 movie Rounders is often credited with increasing the popularity of Texas Hold ‘Em. There have been some great movies about gambling and casinos. 5 Things Movies Get Wrong About Gambling and Casinos 5 Things Movies Get Wrong About Gambling and Casinos

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