Originally Posted by
kewlJ
I appreciate your tone, MDawg.
In my experience, which is blackjack only (or mainly), in most cases, when a player is backed off, barred, or told "no more blackjack", he has probably already missed a couple warning signs. These signs can be anything from a change in demeanor from pit personnel, staring at the player just to make them uncomfortable, the flipping through the discard rack when bets are raised, reduced penetration, to loss or reduction in comps and offers, including zeroing out comp dollars. Not always but in most cases, in my experience, the backoff or "no more blackjack" is not the first signal.
The first place that did this to me was South Point. No surprise really. They were in my regular rotation at the time for blackjack and I gave them a decent amount of rated machine play because they were giving decent mail offers. So one month I was expecting significant free play mail offer based on my coin in and I received no mailer. I inquired at the players card and was actually told that I had been "no mailed". Next time I plated blackjack I was backed off and have been backed off many times since. And I have had other offers stop and accounts zeroed out, so I try not to keep too much in them.
Your 3x bet restriction is a new one for me, in Vegas. I have never heard of anyone being bet restricted to that amount. As a matter of fact, I haven't seen or heard of much bet restricting in Vegas. I had a 1-10 bet restriction in Atlantic City and know of a number of players that have had that same restriction as it is the law or used to be back in 2008-2009 time frame. They would pull out a bet limit card that read minimum bet $5 Maximum bet $50, regardless that you might be playing a $25, $50 or even $100 table. But I just haven't heard of a lot of bet restricting (other than flat betting) done in Vegas. Not calling you a liar or saying it didn't happen....just a new one to me.