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    GUMMO77
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    Affleck Booted for Counting Cards

    He got kicked out of the Hard Rock for counting cards.

    I'm not a big Affleck fan, but I'm impressed.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/0...n_5256376.html

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    Finally!!!

    Something he's good at.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bluehorseshoe View Post
    Finally!!!

    Something he's good at.

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    Never fukkin heard of the guy

    must be a ghost

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    Who's car we gonna take

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    Sometimes I do this in the SBR Casino.

    It doesn't work.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RudyRuetigger View Post
    Never fukkin heard of the guy

    must be a ghost
    He's a former California State Poker Champ, but he must have went broke since I don't see him on the felt anymore.
    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ben-affleck-poker-king/

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    ..."This of course was just the diversion while Matt Damon and George Clooney were cleaning out the vault..."

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    Did he win??

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    No clue, but back in 2001 he won about $800,000 playing black Jack.

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    a huge part of not getting caught counting is putting on a good act. no wonder he got caught.
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    I thought he quit gambling??

    I remember he was playing poker and I think he got hammered

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    Counting cards isn't hard to do

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    Quote Originally Posted by jjgold View Post
    I thought he quit gambling??

    I remember he was playing poker and I think he got hammered
    His old lady put the hammer down on poker.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kaabee View Post
    a huge part of not getting caught counting is putting on a good act. no wonder he got caught.
    that's funny!

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    I wonder how big he was betting or how much he was winning?

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    Quote Originally Posted by chipper View Post
    I wonder how big he was betting or how much he was winning?
    When he won $800,000, Affleck was playing three hands at 20k each. I haven't seen anything, yet, on what he was playing per hand this time around.
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    Quote Originally Posted by GUMMO77 View Post
    When we won $800,000 he was playing three hands a at a time 20k a piece. I haven't seen anything, yet, on what he was playing per hand.
    Who's we?

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    Quote Originally Posted by GUMMO77 View Post
    When he won $800,000, Affleck was playing three hands at 20k each. I haven't seen anything, yet, on what he was playing per hand this time around.

    Ok, before I thought you were in a bj counting team with hollywood heavyweights

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    I think OP meant Casey Affleck, not Ben the actor. I could be wrong, apologize if I am.

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    He was on a 4 man team. I heard Vegas Runner talking about this, because he was with them. It was the two of them, a girl, and then some other guy.

    The idea is, and it's been used before, that rich actors are chumps, and whatever they win they'll just give back, so nobody really accuses them of being in cahoots with anyone else. VR went onto say that Hard Rock doesn't F around, they treat it as Tresspassing as opposed to just kicking you out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Natty68 View Post
    I think OP meant Casey Affleck, not Ben the actor. I could be wrong, apologize if I am.
    Ben

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ralphie Halves View Post
    He was on a 4 man team. I heard Vegas Runner talking about this, because he was with them. It was the two of them, a girl, and then some other guy.

    The idea is, and it's been used before, that rich actors are chumps, and whatever they win they'll just give back, so nobody really accuses them of being in cahoots with anyone else. VR went onto say that Hard Rock doesn't F around, they treat it as Tresspassing as opposed to just kicking you out.

    Why would Affleck need to be on a team?

    I can see him doing it himself, just to see if he is capable of it, but at team?

    I don't understand that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GUMMO77 View Post
    Why would Affleck need to be on a team?

    I can see him doing it himself, just to see if he is capable of it, but at team?

    I don't understand that.
    Yeah, it was explained, but I didn't understand why. It's not like he has to find a table with a hot deck, I'm pretty sure he just stayed on the one he was on. Somebody else counted for him, I know that much, possibly VR.

    VR went on to say that surveillance's main job is to watch the table(s) with the most money changing hands on it, while the rest is normally just recorded, so no matter where Ben was, it was being watched, so that eliminated the "hot table" idea.

    I'm not having any luck finding the podcast page I heard it on. I got it from his twitter, if you want to search through for it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ralphie Halves View Post
    Yeah, it was explained, but I didn't understand why. It's not like he has to find a table with a hot deck, I'm pretty sure he just stayed on the one he was on. Somebody else counted for him, I know that much, possibly VR.
    Ok, it makes sense that someone counted for him.

    Let me know if you come across that podcast.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GUMMO77 View Post
    He's a former California State Poker Champ, but he must have went broke since I don't see him on the felt anymore.
    http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ben-affleck-poker-king/
    somebody is lying cause i remember when espn starting running poker all time time he was on and they had story how he didnt know how to play and learned from the pros at the time and how they took him for like 30K daily, said he was a bad player went all in every hand.

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    Good performance from him in Boiler Room.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RGG View Post
    Good performance from him in Boiler Room.
    boiler room > wolf of wall street

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    Quote Originally Posted by CWD View Post
    boiler room > wolf of wall street
    lol

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