Thirteen - 19 January 2009 10:25 PM

LOL You guys live in the wrong country. We’re allowed to gamble and drink at 18 in Australia. Of course, now I’ve said this I understand that it’s probably too young to be doing these things anyway

Same up here in Canada, drink, smoke legally (cigarettes), Gamble when your 18 most provinces, some are 19. This is the part I like the most about Canada. All lottery, and Casino winnings are TAX FREE. Yes we do allow on line gambling, again tax free. The casinos are government run and owned. They cannot bar you for card counting, or any other advantage play you may have. The only thing some people don’t like is that almost all of the casinos are smoke free.

diceman - 25 February 2010 12:17 PM

[Canadian casinos] cannot bar you for card counting, or any other advantage play you may have.

Perhaps not officially, but I strongly suspect they would find a way to get rid of a proficient card counter who was cleaning their clock.  Due to what was probably a mistake by the courts, New Jersey does not allow casinos to ban card counters, but that law has been effectively nullified by other rulings that allow casinos to bar players for “disruptive behavior”.  Of course it is the casino that determines whether a player’s behavior is disruptive or not.  At least at one time a somewhat common practice to deal with a card counter was for the cocktail waitress to spill a drink “accidentally” on him/her.  The casino would then insist on cleaning the affected garment(s) at no cost to the customer—and take their sweet time doing it, which would take that player out of action.  If the player declined this remedy in order to continue playing in order to finish a favorable shoe the smell of alcohol on his/her clothes was declared to be distasteful to the other players and the card counter was escorted from the casino.  IOW the card counters got tossed, just not for counting cards.