Vegas Player Banned From Harrahs Casino
Every person has heard about cheaters being banned from casinos. This can be for counting cards, which is technically not cheating, or stealing chips from other players, to name a couple instances. But it is not often, well never until now, that someone was banned from a casino for being too lucky. Well it has now happened. The original author of Microsoft Word and poker player Richard Brodie wrote on his blog that a few high rollers and he had letters sent to them by Harrah's Casinos that said that their business was not welcome at any of their casinos in Nevada, California, and Arizona. The reason for this? He was too lucky when he played video poker.
Video poker is a game where the casino controls the payouts and even if the player plays the game right the casino still has the odds. Harrah's made the decision that Brodie was a little too lucky to be let in their casinos any longer. As it happened Brodie hit an amazing three royal flushes in Harrah's casinos in the past year and netted $240,000 for each royal flush.
Harrah's did not take into account, or didn't care, that Brodie had lost thousands of dollars before he hit his lucky streak. Brodie made an estimate that he lost over 80% of the winnings from the three royal flushes. The big wigs at Harrah's are frightened by his freakish luck, which Brodie obviously cannot control. Brodie wrote on his blog, "kicking out players who have been lucky makes about as much sense as banning people from playing the lottery because they win it."
Now there is a problem in where Brodie wants to play. There are a lot of casinos in Las Vegas and ones that are considered to be better than Harrah's but the World Series of Poker is being held at the Rio, which is owned by Harrah's. Considering he cannot play there he has no chance of winning a, highly coveted, WSOP bracelet. This ban of Brodie has brought Harrah's negative press as they have refused to let a player gamble for simply being lucky.