I love that he constantly remarks that "due to the current enviroment we live in", basically saying "yeh, if we could get away with this, we'd still do it."
@@johnathanhodskins5820 This is so true it's why a casino was only robbed once. After word got out that they physically assaulted the would be criminals there was never another attempt.
and if you look at it that way, he's wrong. We don't make minimum wage, we make much more. They DO pay us a minimal wage, which in my area is less than minimum wage.
If you're a card dealer, it's better to make minimum wage, or under minimum wage, and be able to keep your tips. Our dealers, after tips, were some of the highest paid employees in the casino.
i went to a casino about a year and a half ago when i had just turned 18, put 100, got it up to 400, lost everything, found 160$ in my pocket, managed to get it up to like 600 something so i repay everything and get off with 300-400 profit and decided that i would never gamble ever again because it wasn’t gonna go better than that lol
Yeah? Well tell 3 of the Sportsbook entities that limited my bets to only 100 dollars a game. A couple of them told me straight up I wasn’t allowed to bdt with them at all anymore. Oh and limited my live getting to $1 max.
To clarify, as a Vegas local, most dealers don’t stay at minimum wage for long. Most of the big casinos have consistent system raises every 6-12 months
@@pegleg2959 I agree. I get the other side as well, but I tip if I’m winning even with small wins. Especially if you get a fun dealer that makes the game fun even if you get smoked.
I mean you'd kind of have to right? Temptation to cheat on minimum wage gotta be high... give em a year to make sure they can be trusted but 5? 10? People gonna start turning
The dice bit of Ocean's 13 is definitely out of their hands - the story is that, they infiltrated into the dice manufacturing facility and altered how the dice were made altogether. I remember because there was a sub-plot that the dice factory workers (in Mexico) went on strike and to alleviate that issue - they were thinking of just paying the workers fairly which they thought were going to be tens of millions of dollars, but turns out it was just a few tens of thousands. Much like them, the billion dollar gambling industry should pay their workers fairly.
No Casino makes billions, Casinos arent really an extremely profitable business, there also tons of expenses, profits of big casinos usually hover around the tens of millions a year, not hundreds, let alone billions
@@tomasleitao1775 you still just said that they profit tens of millions of dollars. Which means they could easily pay their employees more, they just prefer to pass that expense off to their customer much like restaurants do with servers in North America.
The dealer must have been smoking hot and the player was a high roller who was trying to impress her, hoping for some "quality time" with the dealer after her shift. I have seen similar situations working as a dealer in AC many years ago with varying degrees of success on the part of the high roller. They tend to be less than thrilled when their advances are spurned, thereby leaving them with a bruised ego and a very salty disposition towards everyone.
@@anonymousperson3023 as same as drug dealers ;) I ,mean that not every business supposed to harm people. also, everyone in this comment section already knows that u are a gambler or casino worker. go fck yourself, jerk.
This guy has some interesting information to share, but on the "old days" topic, he's like most private security pseudo-cops, hinting furtively at nonexistent "stories" he knows about that make him sound more hotshot than he is. Though I completely believe him that his tall tales were told by other casino security guards.
Love how he vociferously aid "I'm not aware of any underground casinos but I see some get busted on the news sometimes". The way he looked away was epic. But kudos to him. Great vid
''If you are going to rob something, go rob somewhere else, don't rob a casino'' I feel like robbing a casino is like one of the most morally defendable robberies to do
It's not about whether they deserve it, it's how carefully and aggressively they protect themselves. It's like the opening scene of Pulp Fiction where they discuss why it's a bad idea to rob liquor stores.
@@evanjones8142 I don’t waste my money on casinos but if I did I wouldn’t care. For one if I’m gambling I already have money I’m willing to throw away so yea I’m fine with paying more for a luxury service to ensure the employees are being paid what they are worth and they aren’t banking on someone at the table to be nice. I as the customer shouldn’t be responsible for the paychecks of the employees nor should I be guilt tripped into thinking I should be the one who should get them paid properly.
“Always tip your dealer. They make minimum wage” “We’re gonna pay them awful salaries so YOU have to pay them for us” Edit: For anyone who supports tipping dealers, why don’t you tip the cashier when you get groceries as well? They make minimum wage too.
Rich people don't play for money? They play for imagine? And what gives a better imagine in the entire casino than handing all your winning to the dealer? Little brainwork, guys, please
Not that unusual when millionaires play. As Jussi was saying, they play for image or prestige. Betting hundreds of thousands and tipping tens of thousands makes you look rich, powerful, and generous. People like you. That's the game when you already are worth more money than the game will ever see.
Casino Boss: "Our dealers basically make minimum wage, so tip your dealers." How about the billion dollar industry pays their workers so the guest's tips are the perk they should be? Just a thought.
@@benwilsonMMA okay, so if everyone takes your advice who is going to wait tables and deal at casinos? Either you deal with the minimum wage problem or you make sure you don't need people to do these jobs at all. Everything else is just entitlement and arrogance looking down on hard-working people for no reason.
Having lived in Nevada my entire life and becoming very familiar with casinos, my advise would be to avoid them like a plague. They’re actually extremely depressing places when you understand everything that’s going on around you. The house indeed, always wins.
Yeah, I've always heard that too. Same with strip clubs/gentleman's clubs. In movies, they're often glamorized. But in reality, it's just a depressing place full of despair and desperation.
He was giving sound advice - trying to protect the listener, not himself or his workplace. The vast majority of banks are easier to rob than the vast majority of casinos.
@@ThisHandleFeatureIsStupid I don't know casinos are robbed every year. I mean both banks and casino robberies have low success rates but every year at least one casino gets robbed and they are not caught. Same way they rob everyone else, walk in with guns and have the teller put the money quick at hand in a bag and then take off. They are usually arrested though, especially if they do it repeatedly. But not always.
Cheating is by passing the rules. I have yet to ever go into a casino where they do not play by the agreed upon rules. People who cheat are the ones breaking the rules. Edit: and the odds in their favor doesn't make it rigged. That is the rules, that you, as the player, agreed to. Don't like the rules? Don't play.
@boulderguy888 why? It’s not a scam lol “the odds are all on the house” is a common expression...people know statistically in the long run the casino will have the upper hand, but they also know any given night they could get lucky. And they make the decision to go knowing those two things.
@boulderguy888 why?Lol I have a hard time believing most people actually believe that. It’s not like it’s a difficult concept. People understand that it’s the casino who sets the rules and they are there to make a profit.
Yeah the dealer talking really felt awkward in Casino Royale, he was really talking to the viewers of the movie (those that have never watched a live game of poker), and not at all to the players. The showdown manipulation of the players cards felt embarrassing. There's just one thing that didn't shock me: the accumulation of super unlikely hands. That was pretty consistent with the common accumulation of super unlikely events in any James Bond movie.
I understand his critiques of Casino Royale, but those mistakes I think were just exposition for the viewer to follow. Most viewers probably wouldn’t understand the intricacies of a real poker game.
@@KillerLettuce Said like someone that doesn't understand the intricacies of a real poker game. What's boring to you can be fascinating to someone else and vice versa.
I worked in a casino in my early 20's. Handed a high roller his $150k jackpot and he just handed me a wad of it back as a tip without counting it. Like $6.8k I think. Paid for a whole college semester lol.
casinos: we do literally everything in our power to take your money and make you addicted to gambling, but god forbid we pay our ground level employees a living wage
I thought same thing, but HE doesnt pay them, he's simply their boss. I also googled (not his salary persay but casino directors) and he's only making 45-85k a year. Which I thought is amazingly low as well for the amount of money he's directly managing. I'd bet some of the high end dealers could possibly make more than he does if they've got the right personality.
A) he most likely has no say in why they make b) they probably make quite a bit off tips. It’s like many servers I know. They don’t want to switch to a European system where they get a higher hourly wage with no tips because they make quite a bit once tips are added in. I usually play at $5-10 tables and I tip several dollars every time I get a good hand. You consider that they rotate to higher tables multiply that over the shift and the number of days and they’re doing pretty good
@@passivepipes2519 director of casino ops probably 125-150k/yr on the high end. Guarantee his best dealers making way more than that. Fun fact: highest paid employees at most high end resorts are the banquet and restaurant servers, with exception of maybe the GM. And while 125k might be a lot in some areas of the country, def about average in Vegas. Report came out that says you'd need a 300k/yr salary to afford a house in SF, so take it for what it's worth
Why do you think there are such strict regulations when it comes to building stairs in places where there will be visitors? It's all because of these people constantly falling down the stairs in casinos.
You can tell this guys been around. This is exactly how it works for he most part. There's a British movie called 'Croupier' that no one ever talks about that's also really accurate for how casinos operate in the UK.
@@clb8645 oh wow yes I can totally see that now! That actually might’ve been a better pick than who they went with now that you got me thinking about it
"A casino boss calling other people scammers and criminals is irony at its best" How so? Anyboy with half a brain, who goes into a casino, understands that the house has an edge. Otherwise it wouldn't be sustainable.
"They say that most player can not play this game because it is too stressful" Uhhu, if Mads Mikkelsen would look at me like that I would be stressed too.
omg totaly unrelated but mads and mikkel were both kids who went missing in a german drama series called dark and their last names were nielsen so mads mikkelsen is kinda perfect
If so, he'd be a liar. Akin to a snitch Why tf would he lie. "Just because you know an underground casino doesn't mean you own it" Ghandi. You should read more culture 🧫. I mean, I mean. Ohh!. I see what is happening here. I'm leaving disappointed, albeit also a dislike.
Lol that was classic. Got a great laugh there. Even in AC, it is an open secret that some dealers deal games off-site, never minding the many public films about such places all over.
Yup I won 60,000 in a casino. I tipped everyone $500 each. They deserved it because I had no clue what I was doing or what needed to be done first. They where immensely helpful.
it's happened to me. one night six drunk men confronted me over a drink spill and the casino kicked us all out - but also banned me while the aggressors werent. I learned they had me marked as a counter and were looking for a reason to get rid of me. five years later I wrote a letter to them asking to re enter and they allowed me but they give me deep heat if I go into the high limit blackjack room.
The fact that they literally will not allow you to improve your odds against the house through intelligence and observational skills is why I have no interest in ever gambling.
If anyone wants to see how a card counting team works, in real life, some students and a professor at MIT created a card counting club and applied what they learned in real casinos in Vegas. At the end, they really did get kicked out of casinos, had their names in black books, there really was disguises involved, and so on. There is a documentary about the entire "MIT card counters" on RU-vid here if anyone is interested. I enjoyed it.
The more and more this guy talks just proves how much you have going against you as a player, you could literally just get lucky and the casino kick you out if they want to.
Casinos don’t believe in luck. They follow the math. That’s they key to their success. Can’t take a chance that Mr. Lucky was cheating - and they don’t have to
Solid info. I’m a (former) professional poker player, and I’ve also been backed off at every casino in Vegas for card counting in BJ. Their facial recognition tech is sick. It got to the point where I would enter a casino I had never previously visited, sit down at the BJ table, and get backed off after 5 min before I even got started.
It always bugs me when casinos allow players to calculate odds based on the cards that've been played in poker, but won't allow it in blackjack, when it's the same strategy. Feels a bit dirty to say 'yeah, you can play well when it's against other players, just not when it's against us'.
It is quite simple: When you play poker, you play against other players and the casino just provides the infrastructure. When you play blackjack you play AGAINST the casino.
@@anradhofficial4652 he is stating your comparison is not valid. They are two completely different games. If they did allow you to count cards in blackjack then casinos would stop offering it.
The legal action is called trespassing. Same method bars use to kick out drunks and restaurants use to remove rude patrons. Any place of business can tell you you leave and call the cops if you refuse. Not unique to casinos at all.
@@winterflan You are quoting a comment that I did not make. You are “literally” attempting to put words in my mouth. Legal trespass is not complicated - even you could probably understand it if you tried.
@@cherb23 Says “Casino Boss” on the title. He’s got a high enough authority to at least bring it up as a serious issue with the others, you don’t get to tell others to pay the staff that works for you, at any capacity.
@@AGG_PB Somehow in your little head, this happened; “don’t expect the customers to pay your staff = hippie”. I already have a job, don’t worry, in which I never accept tips, nor do I expect my the clients to pay my people, because that’s my responsibility.
@@sherpaderpdingo3405 nah, they're just in the business of allowing you to risk money against the odds. If everyone won they'd go out of business the same as if an insurance company had all clients get into wrecks on the same day that they had to pay out...they can't afford it.
Counting isn't cheating imo, but working with other people? Imagine the referee and half of the opponents team are on your side in football or soccer.....
The casino goes out of its way to NOT cheat. The game odds are in their favor, it would make no sense to risk the guarantee of winning on something like cheating. The casino ALWAYS wins in the long term, not due to cheating but due to players choosing to play a game with less chance of winning than of losing.
@@Diabolicgoat I guess the interesting question is what a casino will do when they suspect a scam, but can't figure out how it's done and who is involved. Will they resort to cheating themselves?
What I always wonder, how well do they catch card counters? For example, in poker the goal isn't to win every chip, it's more like the goal is to win 55+ big blinds for every 50 you lose. If someone is smart and fast enough to count cards, surely they can count the odds to where they are 'above average' lucky without being constantly lucky? Like, win 6 out of 10 hands, or even 3 out of 10 but bet a lot bigger on one of the 3 winners? Or keep count, lose 8/10, fake tilt, bet all your remaining chips (55% of starting chips) on a hand you know will hit. Stopping card counters doesn't seem noble at all, but I also doubt they could. I'm sure they stop some, but surely not all.
Actually, in the Yu-GI-Oh! manga, Yugi battles the rare hunter Arkana and describes a few tricks he suspects Arkana of to manipulate his first hand. some of them are wearing special contact lenses or waxing your cards, as it is described in this video
Concerning Casino Royale criticisms: I think many of the inaccuracies he's breaking down are for the benefit of the audience, who need instructed on what's going on (dealer talking) or to build tension (the lower hand guys revealing first.)
It is still bad filmmaking because it would NEVER HAPPEN. Imagine a scene in a movie about politics where one senator tells another "I have a meeting in the White House" and the other says "Oh, that is where the President lives" just for the benefit of the audience. Just no.
The difference between Casino Royale and The White House is the White House is easily recognized ,while on the other hand most people don't know the rules of "No limit texas hold in"( the game James Bond was playing)
That's exactly what I heard, most casinos actually encourage card counting vs discouraging it because most people think they can but can't (and often that offsets the ones that can, and if a casino gets a reputation for refusing card counters or treating them harshly then they can end up losing that revenue over the one or two that can actually pull it off).
no they don‘t. Professional card counters are backed off regularly. They even back off people who are not counting cards (when they fit a certain bet spread) because casino's are paranoid. These guys are real dirtbags. They know they have an edge and will eventually win the players money… but when some one is actually winning, they throw them out
@@jouglexander They are real dirtbags. They even have a database which they share among most casinos in the country. They take advantage of weakminded people, but when someone is better than them they back out and throw him out.
@@tankbxy7609 I don't gamble cause it's just not fun (other than poker). You either have games, where your decision doesn't matter (roulette etc) or there is a single best decision for every situation (blackjack).
Should have done "Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels." Although technically it isn't really a casino, and they did use a very similar setup to cheat at Poker in it to the guy cheating at blackjack in Casino. Still... that movie is legendary. Also Rain Man would have been a good one to do for sure.
Having worked at a casino I can tell you, I won often. Tip me baby. No but on a real note play 50 bucks play quarters and have a good time don’t try to win your mortgage or bet your car. Just play a fifty you’ll be playing longer then a Marvel movie.
I’ve worked in a casino for more than a decade. The secret is to have fun. Don’t go into a casino thinking you’re gonna walk out with a $1,000,000. If you win a few hundred, or even a few thousand... just walk away. Don’t put that money back in thinking you’re gonna win even more money. Use that money to have a nice dinner and a good time at the clubs.
Counting cards. It’s not illegal it’s not cheating it’s using every advantage you have to your benefit. The way I see it if you are smart enough to count into multiple decks and keep it straight in mind and you’re not doing anything to cheat then you are good to go. How can being extremely smart be considered cheating.
RE:Janes Fair. Casinos hate smart people. They want to kick out anyone who is winning. Just like insurance companies who don't want to pay out any claims, or charge you for it.
@@butareyoureally1868 I mean Caesar's and MGM who basically own all of the casino's on the Vegas strip are publicly traded S&P 500 companies. The people on the board of directors are voted on by the shareholders lol
The idea that they'll kick you out because they think you might be thinking about the game too much is so bizarre. And then the fact that it's illegal in some places. I imagine that was a law that may have had some financial incentives behind it when it was written....
It's because the casino has a plethora of game types and playing just one is like going to Disneyland to go on the Matterhorn multiple times and leaving without touching any other ride with the full park access ticket you purchase. Sure, you make a lot of money with that one game if you're good at it but it becomes suspicious after a while or it becomes the equivalent of loitering as much as a casino could consider it such. The key to not being kicked out is to go explore other games then come back to the game you were originally making money on. Repeat several times with various time differences between leaving and returning (and try to go to another table). It makes them less focused on you.
It's because the casino always has the better odds even if it's just 51%. It's not a game of chance because anything you do to tilt it in your favor is penalized as a criminal offense.
@@MrPiotrV Disney itself wouldn't care but the park employees would get very annoyed seeing you multiple times ONLY on one ride. Now would they kick you out, probably not but their opinion of you will be very low and if they feel your insistence on riding one ride will decline your Disney park experience, they can do what's called a soft ban which is they won't let you on a specific ride for the remainder of the day. Everything else will be open to you still. Now, if you do the same one ride only thing on another ride, they can just ban you for a while. It's so rare that it never really happens but it has happened to a few people, one of whom was my cousin's friend who kept going on Splash Mountain over and over and he had a soft ban happen to him.
@@Tigressa101 it is not suspicious at all, you have no idea what you’re talking about, most people go to casinos to play one game in particular.. tons of people sit at tables for hours.. you have no idea what a casino is like
I learned a long time ago that there are no clocks in the casinos, and there's a very good reason for that. Vegas definitely wasn't built by people winning money.
@@rahadban6442 Depends. I tend to gamble to have fun as opposed to expecting some monster payday. Sit at the table for a few hours, have drinks, and hopefully get onto a streak with a really fun group of people sitting there. I am paying for the experience. If you go with a preset amount and spend only that, casinos can be a ton of fun. The key is to never get stupid and just focus on being there having a good time.
That's the MO of any business. If I sell used cards I want to sell them for as much as possible. If I sell software I want to sell it for as much as possible. If I sell entertainment... you get the idea. And improving customers experience is and always has been a good way to also charge more.
I guess the dealer speaks so much in 'Casino Royale' because there are spectators in the room and is basically letting everyone know what's happening on the table.
@@VENGEFULHEXX savage used in the modern context can change the meaning of his statement douche bag ... doesnt change his argument that casinos get people to spend their money, which is on the weak-minded degenerate gamblers not the casino
As someone who plays poker for a living, I guess this is how doctors feel watching medical tv shows. That James Bond scene was just so beyond asinine that it almost takes you out of the movie. Lol
Well thats because you're a professional poker player. The movie made the scene that way so the average watcher could understand better. This video even acknowledged that.
Fair enough. I was actually ok with the liberties they took to help the average viewer better understand what was going on (like the dealers narration/dialogue and actions). The worst part was the actual poker side of things where it would have been easy to get right (without affecting the viewers ability to understand what’s going on). I mean they didn’t even do the simple math right for how much money is supposed to be in the pot.
I boxed when I was in the Army and it kind of ruined the Rocky movies for me, especially in the first one where they cut his eye. It's such a dumb thing to have in there and it would NEVER happen. That James Bond scene had me feeling the same way.
Always love the Hollywood depiction of the Surveillance Rooms. I was fortunate enough to get a tour of one in Atlantic City. It was relatively small, poorly lit, and with just two personnel to watch all the cameras. What was interesting is it had cameras in it also. The Surveillance Division watches the gaming action, but the Security Division watches everything else, including Surveillance. We had to accompanied by a member of the New Jersey State Gaming Commission, just to be in the room.
Why don't you open a casino and pay your employees well above market rate then? Never could understand why people considered themselves morally superior cause they'd be nicer.... With someone else's money.
my biggest win was a couple years ago i won 10k on a 10$ side bet on a backjack tabble. walked in the casino with 500$ with my wife. after i won, i sat back down and the dealer told me i should leave. told me i won, and i should take my winnings and leave. Was pretty nice of him
@grandmasterchess choe. Well, in California that makes you the working poor, right? I recently turned down a job paying 100K/ year in Seaside, CA, because the average "house" cost half a million dollars. so that may not be minimum wage, but it's pretty close, amirite?
Funny how these billion dollar casinos encourage their customers to tip the dealer because they are to cheap to pay more than min wage. I understand restaurants who are owned by a family, but a billion dollar casino can afford to lay more than min wage.
