Zenking, we all know you are the greatest card counter to ever exist, so lets not even go there. That goes without saying.

Correct me if I am wrong, but I do remember when you first moved to Vegas you were talking about seeking out some kind of issue where you could sue to make money. I don't know if you were talking of trying to instigate a backroom situation, or a slip and fall or what. I imagine you were just talking. Maybe I am wrong and it is just me, but I think real AP's want to win or make money off the casinos by the rules. I wouldn't blame anyone that didn't because the casino industry doesn't play fair or by the rules. But I want to make my money at the tables.

You mentioned casino personél blocking your way to the garage, which I guess was the closest exit. From not only my own situation, but other players I speak with they will always try to be between and block the closest exit. If you see a situation coming and have any time at all before they get to you, you are better off trying to weave your way through the casino to an exit that is not the closest exit. Not running but moving quickly. Even with surveillance tracking you and calling down to security, they are always 2 steps behind you. Of course, if you are lax, and they get to you while you are still seated, all that is for not.

I have said several times, this incident caught me off guard. I feel I was a little complacent because I have only had backoffs and 90% were polite, some ridiculously polite. I take full responsibility for losing focus.

Let me just remind you for your own good, that the Lawyer most of us hold in very high regard, recommends that you do nothing that might be construed as resisting. The proper thing to do if you are cornered as I was is calmly remind whoever appears to be in charge that the back room detention,, which basically amounts to a false arrest is illegal, unless the patron has committed some crime. Card counting is not a crime. You hope that person in charge comes to his senses.

You are probably correct that once in the backroom, I should have refused to sign anything. A signed document really carries no extra weight than a verbal trespass, so that is all for show and intimation purposes anyway. I should have refused, but frankly my arm was broken at that point. I didn't know 100% that it was broken but suspected, was in some discomfort and wanted to get the hell out of there, so I signed the paper.

I don't know if you have been following my situation, but it has become harder and harder for me to play, over the past couple years, especially at the mid-level range that I played at all the off strip local type places. So losing this one location isn't going to make a huge difference. I can still or at least could until recently play on the strip during more crowded times. We will see if this effects that. My blackjack days are definitely dwindling. I will be transitioning to other forms of AP, something I and I hear you have mostly resisted.

Continued good fortune to you Zenking.