It is fascinating to me to see this play out and the various arguments. It is not going to affect me either way. Might have a few years ago when my partner was alive and we were doing our VP mailer play, but not now that I am back to mostly blackjack.
One way it could
effect me, is if all the APs that started out with card counting 20-30 years ago, and moved into other areas of AP, suddenly come back to card counting flooding the market. Welcome 'home" boys.
I did the laugh emoji because that really isn't a concern. Nobody is going to go from the much larger advantages they have played back to 1% card counting grinding.
But here is one thing I keep coming back to. If this new law were to stand the way it is written and enforced the way it is written, it would be not just the end of machine advantage play, but casino machine gambling altogether. Even recreational, non-AP players would not continue to gamble under an extra 10% "penalty". It would essentially be the end of casinos.
I don't know who orchestrated this law, and I don't mean which politician (we know that), but who is/was really behind it, but there is a pretty strong casino lobby and some very wealthy casino owner and corporations, that I think have yet to be heard from.