More Legal Cases Against The Casinos
By Ion Saliu, Defender At-Large
I came across two recent legal cases against the casinos. One was posted on the BJ21 forum, another one on the blackjackforumonline:
www.blackjackforumonline.com/w-agora/view.php?site=bjf&bn=bjf_forum&key=1223028926 ("Help needed in St. Maartin Court case").
(Oh, stopppit! Yea know they ban me...anywhere they possibly can! Think of Huge-In-Numbers-Players, such as People's Republic of China, or Software Republic of Microsoft… Granted, Microsoft had no choice but lift the ban against yours truly… after almost two years…2008 years after The Senate granted tribunicia potestas to Octavianus Augustus. That's the benefit of democracy… Republic to you, Platonos! It can be ugly…but they allow you to be ugly as well…or else you MAY have to fight 'em to the weeping under-floor… You are doomed if you expect understanding from your foes. That quotation was coined by Ion “Call-Me-Parpaluck” Saliu when he still believed in gods — before full understanding of FFG, the Fundamental Formula of Gambling.)
I responded to the presentation of that legal case of gambling father and son. First off, I don't know exactly the location of that casino. Google advises St. Maarten instead of St. Maartin. I have a personal experience regarding the casinos and the law. I wrote about it extensively:
The Philosophical Science Of Winning And The Law.
The law is very protective of the gambling industry for economic reasons, especially taxes. Even though the casinos in New Jersey are prohibited from discriminating against skilled players, the NJ Casino Control Commission (NJCCC) disregards their own laws!
Two alleged lawyers discussed my case in private with me (via emails). One of them had the strong opinion that the casinos cannot be beaten legally. It was mission impossible, he said. The other one warned me of the award caps. I might be awarded $300,000 and end up in debt (after a painful legal battle)! It is possible that the two "legal experts" were on the payroll of the casinos, even employees of NJCCC. My experience tells me now, after a decade of experience in gambling, that everything is possible. The casinos are capable of anything.
I know Nevada represents the worst-case scenario. It is reminiscent of the mob era. I was shocked to read the post of a casino chairman in my forum:
Roulette Announcement and Threats by John Schroder, Chairman of MGM Grand Casino.
There is absolutely no legal ground for discrimination. You don't interfere with the game (like touching the dealer or the deck of cards) — you abide by the law. Problem is, only a group of players with large amounts of money could be successful in long, painful legal battles. I just came across of a class action suit filed by some 119,000 gamblers. I also contacted a former lawyer who filed her own legal suit against casinos in NJ and Vegas. Granted, these cases deal with gambling addiction, not discrimination. But it might help to contact the ex-lawyer from New York who filed suit in New Jersey. She has a lot of info at her website:
mycasinolawsuit.com/home ("My Casino Lawsuit - HomePlease view video introduction on youtube.com").
I had never thought that cases filed on the grounds of addiction would ever succeed. The tobacco legal cases of the 1990's proved the contrary. I was a smoker and I was aware of the warning clearly printed on the cigarette packs. Nobody forced me to smoke — physically speaking. It was my act of volition. I kept smoking until I decided I didn't want to smoke anymore. There were no health signs. I just decided so. The myth of that era, 1980's, was that cigarette smoking didn't do good to...the personal computers! Okay, that was the main reason I totally quit smoking in the summer of 1988, Memorial Day. Never smoked again...never will!
But look what the casinos do. The casinos do their best (worst, in truth, evil) to keep the addicted gamblers in the loop. They spot addicted gamblers, such as Arelia Taveras. The casino executives overwhelm the afflicted gamblers with all kinds of incentives to come back and lose more money. Addicted gamblers do not have knowledge or get real bad training in gambling. That's what the casinos count on. On the other hand, if you enter the casino and start gambling at the FFG point, they will rob you. They take advantage of a phantom (legal pretext) and slam you to the ground. They yell that you are a card counter — they might even kill you. There are humans with heart problems!
I do not think that the casino, in your case, father and son, would be stupid to display such signs on the premises (prohibiting card counting). That would be blatantly illegal! As you say, nobody could ban the use of minds, anywhere, any time! The burden of proof is with the casinos. Who could prove in a court of law that a person counts cards? Or, are the judges mystics? What expert witnesses could read minds? Not to mention that the casino dealers are relatively lowly educated...forget about experts!
Furthermore, card counting is just a myth. Mathematics proves that. I think the legend of blackjack card counting plays as the most successful means of advertising for the casinos. It certainly attracts a large number of players who believe counting at blackjack is a road to riches. There are also other ways that the card counting legend favors the casinos. Read any blackjack book on card counting and virtually all of them contain the same cliché. “If you are a card counter, make some bonehead plays so that the pit boss won't ban you!” I think many card counters take the advice seriously. They do make bonehead, stupid plays from time to time just to hide their card-counting skills. What a stupid strategy for the blackjack player! What a profitable play for the casino!
It is admitted even by the staunchest fanatics that counting cards offers no more than a 2% advantage for the blackjack player. That's a slim margin by all standards. Making bonehead plays can easily wipe out the slim, potential (illusory) 2% advantage. The casinos owe big time to all authors of card-counting books. Then, in places where it is legal to ban skilled players from the blackjack action, the casinos commit downright robbery.
From what I have read, the casinos show a strong bias towards barring a blackjack player when he/she is at a serious LOSS! I read once that a known card counter was losing some $14,000. Exactly at that point, the pit boss approached the counter and asked him to leave the blackjack game! Get it? The $14,000 went immediately to the casino bottom line. Meanwhile, the player was deprived of a reasonable chance to recuperate his loss.
I know with a high degree of certainty who those who write to me are. I include here reactions to posts like this post. It's been a decade now. I exposed them all. See the casino chairman John Schroder (most likely ex- now, at MGM Grand). He conspired with a so-called famous gambling book author. They tried first the cowardice thing, like trying to throw me in a dangerous legal situation. You know, the old bookworm Jackal (John Patrick) pretended he was 19 — under the drinking and gambling age in the US. The chairman insinuated that my website condoned underage gambling. In truth, Jackal was in his fifties or sixties at that time (2001).
When cowardice act didn't work, the chairman brutally came back to earth. He threatened, in the utmost direct terms, that the casino executives have the legal right (the blessing of the law, one should say) to throw out, even arrest, system players in the casino!
Now, the truth is that Chairman and Jackal produced CD software, with big TV productions, inside a Las Vegas casino, with real casino dealers! Is that schizophrenia, or what? On one hand, Chairman and the likes toot their horns that the casinos have every legal right to ban the card counters! On the other hand, Jackal produces a big TV production sold as CDROM software where card counting is blessed! Jackal even says: "Card counting is very easy...very easy!"
In truth, the casino executives love card counters. Everybody, by now, realizes that card counting has no mathematical merit. It is about the mathematics (combinatorics) of permutations and exponents, first and foremost. The number of possible card sequences is staggering. Even if one-deck blackjack games might not be completely dead, absolutely dead — there is the penetration.
Card counting could have some merit in extremely rare situations. Say, no penetration, the deck down to around 25%; one player heads-up against the dealer. The extreme rare situation is a count extremely rich in 10 and Ace. No doubt, the dealer has the same degree of certainty to get the blackjack (natural). But the player still loses 1-to-1. But if the player gets the blessing of a natural, he/she wins 3-to-2. Who can still offer that BJ game on this planet? BJ is now multi-deck, multi-player, with penetration. Spread a +5 count (how rare that happens!) between 7 players and a dealer! Don't forget the gazillions of possible card sequences! Hello?
The casinos love to entertain this myth. Most card counting training materials sold today — books, software, seminars, etc. — are the conspiracy work of casinos. One must always keep in mind the Jackal productions! The card counting is falsely legal motive to commit robbery or extortion. I wrote before of the most common situations when the casinos throw out in the streets (or even arrest) a so-called card counter who already lost big. The money is deposited immediately in the casino account.
In this legal case of a lawsuit against the Hollywood casino in St. Maartin (or St. Maarten?) the casino action is even more blatantly an act of robbery. It is worse than extortion: It is point-blank robbery. A player and his son won $18,000. That's their legitimate money. They did not interfere with the game of blackjack whatsoever. Yet, the casinos take the money away from the two gamblers, by resorting to violent-street action. The father and his son (oh, heavens!) are thrown to the floor and manhandled!
If you are known as a skilled gambler and you lose big at some point — they throw you out in the streets, or even arrest you. If you win big at some point, they stop you and they take your money violently! And the casinos have the blessing of the law! They convinced their lawmakers (crooks, most likely) that card counting is illegal. Still, the casinos sell and distribute by all means all kinds of training materials that encourage...card counting! They give you everything you want to know about card counting or how to train in counting cards at blackjack! You think you became knowledgeable in an illusion, you start counting cards at the blackjack table — and the casinos rob you point-blank with the blessing of the law!
You know what really made blackjack card counting such a loud myth? It was the legal case of a revered blackjack player named Ken Uston. In my book, he was a crook, a casino mole. When I initiated my legal complaint in Atlantic City (2003), the legal advisor who worked for the Casino Control Commission revered Ken Uston! Spoke about Kenny like Kenny was a god! How come? A legal action against the casinos should be repudiated not worshipped!
The truth is that after the Supreme Court of New Jersey ruled in favor of Ken Uston, card counting became the hottest game in town. The revenue of the casinos from the blackjack game grew exponentially — no exaggeration! The weirdest fact is this incredible act of Ken Uston after he won the legal "battle". He turned into an acting star on TV. He acted in lots of advertisements for the casino he allegedly defeated in court! That's unbelievable! I strongly believe that the whole legal case was a stunt. The case in the court of law was watched in New York City with a lot of interest. Then, the casino TV ads starring Kenny were hugely popular in New York and on the U.S. East Coast. As a result, blackjack became the most popular game in every casino in the United States. It still is the most popular table game in the casino.
This kind of legal cases were far easier to launch and win during the cheesy era of the 1980's. There are so many more grave cases on the docket of every court of law (especially in the U.S.) these days. Discrimination cases against the casinos look frivolous. Even cases of robbery or extortion look frivolous. Even if someone took $18,000 from a father and son inside a casino, the judge throws out the case with the ruling: "The casino gorillas followed some sort of rules, didn't they? Hence forth the understanding that card counting is illegal?" BRRRRRRRRAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
The casinos didn't take adverse action against me because I was a blackjack card counter. As a matter of fact, I closed my eyes a few times during games at the blackjack tables. I joked about counting cards blindfolded. Most everybody around agreed that card counting has absolutely no foundation. Moreover, they hate me at the roulette table as well. What card counting in roulette?! The adverse reaction of the casinos against yours truly has been caused by the mighty Fundamental Formula of Gambling (FFG). That's what started the fire. Meanwhile, they try hard to keep the myth of card counting alive.
The aftermath (ain't after mathematics, mind you!) —Rocktober 13, 2008
Something else you might want to know, Super Crocodilule (Kokodrilo, or big-time gambler). I published this page clearly before I even heard of a "don't'call-it-film" movie titled 21. Twenty-one means blackjack. If I don't know or don't write about blackjack — then nobody does.
Usually, people refer to me publications that steal from me. As they say:
"Your stuff had been publicly there for years now"...
I bought 21 right away.
The film 21 was a blatant piracy of my website of stupendously great ides. They start with what mostly readers oppose: Streaks! I treat it there as the Monty Paradox. Reading it here, leads you to the clear idea that nothing can go beyond the Saliusian sets (Ion Saliu's sets). The Monte Paradox can be easily extended to far more difficult situations — like many more than three doors. That's the beauty of formulae — extension. But I encourage you get to run that incredulously great piece of software named Streaks.exe. Nothing can go beyond Streaks — unless they badly cheat you. Guess why they banned me from that 21 forum — the one conducted by Snytser, a blackjack card-counting priest! BRRRRRRRRAHAHAHAHA…..
I bought the 21 DVD. They admit it was fiction based on rumors (flowing freely in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. of A. in the 1990's). Sound familiar to you, Christian? Catholic or Bostonian or not: The story of Jesus was written by one Saul, a scholarly epileptic (like Mohamed 600+ years later). Saul wrote his Jesus story some 20 years after the fact. But Saul went on to create real brethren communities around the Mediterranean basin. People divinize one if one makes some good when everything around is terrible! Then, the Greek-educated Gospel writers (many more writers than the traditional four; the four gospel writers were three: Luca si Matei) re-wrote the Jesus story some 70 years — after the fact!
At best, the 21 story was fiction. In truth, it was a lie! Again, as I point out at this truly axiomatic site, card-counting is worse than a myth. It is a marketing ploy by the casinos. After the film is over, just go to the end. Card counting at blackjack is one of the features of the DVD (hey, it costs you three times the price of the theater admission!) They say, hey, we produced this film because it could arouse the interest of at least one million new would-be gamblers! Counting Cards is not illegal; therefore you can reach riches in the casino by playing blackjack!
Guess who the main sponsor of this film was, other than a film actor and producer who can no longer get anything right? Kvitser Stacey is the high-aiming actor who already won an Oscar — but can no longer hope to be placed in anything high-level because of his looks. The main thing I want to expose here is MGM Grand Casino and Resort. John Schroder, anyone? Just read my website:Roulette systems and threats from a casino chairman named John Schroder of MGM Grand Casino.
Guess what, Super Crocodilule? John Schroder conspired with John "Jackal" Patrick at one time, in 2001. They had gotten together before that, and created a CDROM for all-things-gambling. I mean, the CDROM was a big TV production filmed inside a casino! If you bring a small digital camera inside the casino — just a small camera! — They might as well arrest you!
No, they wouldn't bring you to a so-called backroom. There ain't such a room! But the 21 film wanted to convey you the strong message of a backroom. So, on one hand, they want you to inspire. You may win millions at blackjack! We, the Kasinos, beg you to come to our hou', especially in Las Vegas! But, beware, we can bend the law the way we want top! We can beat you up to death, if we so decide…legally speaking! Take you to that frightening backroom!
If that is NO schizophrenia — I don't know what is!
I ain't gonna publish here messages and suggestions. Believe me, you ain't gonna go nowhere, if you think vigilantism works! Vigilantism does NOT work. You gotta call me when the Law can work. Don't you ever bring firearms with you in the casino! Yeah, I watched that 21 film in dismay — like you did. It is fiction.
I repeat: 21 is fiction! The casinos are — you should know it by now, after reading my site — schizophrenic. They make big, huge spending, to just get you in there. But, then again, they frighten you that they can torture you to lose the last of your penny if you are a smart gambler! Is it bad or worse? Yes, it is (the way my mom, Mamica, would put it).
The fiction in 21 you gotta look for. Everything blackjack game in the film has a positive count way above ten. It is plus 15 or above ion most situations! They only explain to you that such situations might not occur in two or more lifetimes — at the end of the DVD only! How convenient, John Schroder of MGM Grand Casino and John Patrick!
They never mention in the film the mathematics of sequences. Just run that great mathematical freeware Streaks.exe, mate!
Thusly, the two strong elements of lying fiction in the 21 movie, again:
1) The backroom (no longer exists; it existed during the mob era, the era of the casinos coming to life in the 1950's);
2) The counting above plus 10 does not come to life in two or three life times of a gambler who continuously gambles, given huge amounts of money that very few humans enjoy). The casinos no longer offer one-deck blackjack game without penetration
The guy who wrote the book shamelessly stole the idea from my website. The high-IQ students and the Kvitser Math Professor (Mickey) never existed! My gambling challenge to ANYBODY has been online since 2000! Nobody dares to take it. Perhaps some one from Down Under has just taken it! Stay tuned!
Hey, if they clearly show to you that they might want take you to a backroom — Just grab a chair, will you? Even if you are alone, not in team playing — You are still the occupant of a chair! Hit the backs of their heads, pals! If 21 is not fiction, then, really, they'll never dare to raise to you the idea of a backroom! Force respects force, as we all know! A nunchak is never an illegal weapon inside anywhere — It is all about self-defense.
Best of luck, kokodrilo and son (big-time gamblers)!
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