Originally Posted by MDawg View Post
From the old days, maybe a hundred years ago, when biased roulette wheels still existed, there are verified stories of players taking casinos for staggering sums.

There are legitimate contemporary stories of Baccarat players who have put the lights out of Caribbean casinos.

In Europe, when a table was "busted" from a player's winning too much, they drew something like a table cloth over it - which is where the expression comes from en Francais.

Have you ever seen the movie "The Winner"? (1996) At the end Philip converts a suitcase of $250K in cash into one glowing surreal token that he puts on the Wheel of Fortune, and, presumably, wins, as the lights go out, at that casino, all the neighboring casinos, and all over Las Vegas. From the expression, "put the casino's lights out."
Seriously, you are smarter than than using a movie to make a point.

Anyone who ever got shut down from playing Baccarat was either cheating or was playing at limits the casino had no reason to accept based on their bankroll or tolerance for losses. Casinos do get greedy at times thinking the HA will always come out in their favor. They forget they need the bankroll to survive the swings on such a low HA game.