The casino industry's obsession with game protection is kind of humorous because of their extremes levels of paranoia. It today's world with so many new games being introduced at such a rapid pace, there is some need for some game protection. Smart AP's and math guys figure out how to exploit these games faster than they are introduced.

But let's take a step back just a few years (and continuing even today), to the industry's obsession with card counters. Card counters accounted for almost nothing against the casino bottom line. Low and mid level players literally nothing. Many underfunded or with holes in their game or discipline issue aren't playing the +EV game they (and the casinos think), some aren't playing +EV at all. Any slight threat came from well financed high limit players and teams. Focusing on anything other than these high limit players and teams was asinine, as smart casino people like Bill Zender recognized years ago.

And yet the casino industry has waged war on low and mid level counters that are no threat for decades. They literally spend dollars to save a penny. And the really funny part is the casino industry is being "played" by all these so called expert gaming consultants and gaming consultant companies that have popped up in the last decade, many of them former (or failed) AP's themselves. You could even say this in itself has been an AP play, taking advantage of the casino industry's obsessions and paranoia to extract ten's or hundred times what you are "saving" them. It really is funny shit!