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Originally Posted by thaskalos
If Ivey indeed cheated them...then, why didn't they arrest him? Don't cheaters get arrested in the casinos? And...don't tell me that he "cheated" in the same way the card-counters "cheat"...because the card counters get to KEEP their winnings. If he cheated clearly, as you say...then he should have gotten ARRESTED.
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That's a rather misleading argument. Card counters sometimes get to keep their winnings (though the Hard Rock and Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas have recently taken to handcuffing and confiscating chips from identified card counters). But they also get backed off or barred from casinos. In other words, card counting certainly is treated as a form of cheating.
At any rate, casinos' treatment of card counters who win $3,000 in a session of blackjack does not set a precedent that requires they pay the winnings of someone who wins $9 million manipulating baccarat. The more you try to take the casino for, the better your legal arguments had better be.
