Originally Posted by
tomcowley
It's the law's job to create a deterrent to criminal activity. If Vegas decided to treat every casino trespass offense as the equivalent of a $10 parking ticket that never escalated, would that suddenly give casinos the right to steal chips? The difficulty/rarity in prosecuting minor international fraud doesn't make vigilante justice the right answer. Plus, in the vast majority of cases, the multiaccounting could be caught before any bets were made, and the book's shoddy business practices/willful ignorance isn't an excuse for a freeroll. It's unethical for a book to take a wager and to intend to keep the money if the bet loses without a commitment to pay if it wins. If the book doesn't have its head up its ass, you get your deposit back, minus transaction fees each way, so you're pissing money away taking the shot. That's the deterrent.