Jack Hitt
speaker
849 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 3 Jul
Jack Hitt’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I ran this by Ben, the founder, who could not wait to correct me.
How could that be?
We all know that casinos spend tons of money on overhead cameras and security guys to detect card counters.
So I called the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, and Ben was right.
Card counting isn't illegal.
In fact, the spokeswoman said it wasn't even against the rules, though they do discourage it.
She told me that if they catch you, they'll ask you to go play other games, a process known as backing off.
Or if they really don't like what you're doing, they will tell you to leave and that you're not allowed back.
But for the most part, casinos just don't like to dissuade anyone from gambling, even card counters.
Maybe because most of them are so bad at it, they lose money anyway.
And so they pulled it off.
Ben and Colin kept training more and more churchgoers, flying the members of their congregation to casinos all over the country.
Soon enough, the casinos began to treat them as whales.
That's what they called big-time gamblers, rewarding them with comps, free rooms, cases of liquor.
They'd come home with amazing stories of winning thousands, sometimes tens of thousands, on the perfectly laid bet.
Bragging rights all around.
In order to convince the casinos that they were reckless high rollers and not card counters, they'd often wear costumes and take on personas, everything from golf pro to what one team member called gay art collector.
In this scene from the documentary, you see Colin dressed as a mechanic in a jumpsuit and baseball cap.
Ben, meanwhile, has gone full-on goth, white face paint, black lipstick with black outfit, and even black fingernails.
but they never forgot this was a business, and business was good.
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