So in a “News of the Fucking Stupid” moment, Harrah’s has decided that people who spend a shitpot full of money at -EV games and occasionally get lucky are no longer welcome at their properties.
Here’s the story, from the Lion’s mouth -
Richard Brodie (made a shitpot full of money by creating the red squiggle under misspelled words in Microsoft Word) plays a fuckton of video poker at Caesar’s for a fuckton of money. He actually manages to hit a couple times, to put him well in the black for the year, and Harrah’s decides that he is no longer welcome at any of their properties in Nevada or California.
Yeah - because this dude was willing to bet stupid money on games where the house has a defined mathematical edge and managed to get lucky a couple of times, Harrah’s has banned him from the casino. This not only holds true for Caesar’s, but now Brodie is also barred from taking part in the World Series of Poker, being held at the Rio, a Harrah’s property.
Brodie didn’t cheat, he didn’t angle-shoot, he didn’t try to game the system. If he’s guilty of anything, it’s writing too often about fish dinners and playing stupid -EV games at too great a level to impress young hotties. But really, what balding bajillionaire wouldn’t do that?
Nice frickin’ move, Harrah’s.