Ok, so today, i got up at the crack of 9am, walked the dogs, had a bagel with cream cheese, and decided that I was going to cross over..... To the dark side..... Im waiting for the door to crash in and the SWAT team to come through.....
OK, nothing happened, so I guess I'll explain what I mean by crossing over.
Essentially, im gonna spill my guts about casinos in general and surveillance operations in particular. And if the casinos don't like it, tough! Over the course of this blog, I will be, essentially, teaching a free class in, what the casinos call, advantage play. Card counting, masking your play, keeping your identity to yourself, keeping your financial details to yourself and other things that casino surveillance departments, along with table games supervisors, cage personnel and security will try and keep you from doing.
Oh, and the IRS. They want to know what you're up to also. With the new emphases since the advent of global terrorism, and especially since 9/11, our congress has seen fit to pass all kinds of new laws. They say that it is to "prevent money laundering" and I agree with most of it, to a point.
Now nobody wants to see Abdul the Jihadist, or Vinnie the mobster or Pablo the cocaine smuggler using casinos as illegal money laundromats. But those kind of people with be moving thousands, or hundreds of thousands of dollars through US washing machines, so they will stand out like a sore thumb and most of them now know to avoid casinos just like they would avoid banks, anyway. So the result is that 99.9999 percent of casino customers get harassed, mentally and financially, for no good reason.
Sorry that this turned in to a rant on the evils and excesses of the Bank Secrecy Act, but when I said I was going to spill my guts, I meant it. And why shouldn't I? It's a free country. For now.
Stay tuned for more.......
OK, nothing happened, so I guess I'll explain what I mean by crossing over.
Essentially, im gonna spill my guts about casinos in general and surveillance operations in particular. And if the casinos don't like it, tough! Over the course of this blog, I will be, essentially, teaching a free class in, what the casinos call, advantage play. Card counting, masking your play, keeping your identity to yourself, keeping your financial details to yourself and other things that casino surveillance departments, along with table games supervisors, cage personnel and security will try and keep you from doing.
Oh, and the IRS. They want to know what you're up to also. With the new emphases since the advent of global terrorism, and especially since 9/11, our congress has seen fit to pass all kinds of new laws. They say that it is to "prevent money laundering" and I agree with most of it, to a point.
Now nobody wants to see Abdul the Jihadist, or Vinnie the mobster or Pablo the cocaine smuggler using casinos as illegal money laundromats. But those kind of people with be moving thousands, or hundreds of thousands of dollars through US washing machines, so they will stand out like a sore thumb and most of them now know to avoid casinos just like they would avoid banks, anyway. So the result is that 99.9999 percent of casino customers get harassed, mentally and financially, for no good reason.
Sorry that this turned in to a rant on the evils and excesses of the Bank Secrecy Act, but when I said I was going to spill my guts, I meant it. And why shouldn't I? It's a free country. For now.
Stay tuned for more.......
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