Cogno wrote (concerning the MGM Grand in Las Vegas): As I recall, the tracking system was so broken that you didn't even have to pull your card...it failed to count any hand-pay jackpots, so it you were playing high denomination it showed a pretty steep loss.
That wasn't the case in the era I played there --- maybe at some other time. We had millions in W2Gs there during that period so if they were all excluded our reported loss would have been much larger than it actually was.
You needed to have your card removed for the jackpot not to be recorded. But we often played $5 Ten Play where a dealt flush was $1500 and a dealt full house was $2250. You get enough of those (in addition to the rare dealt quads ($6250), dealt straight flushes ($12,500) and every dealt 4-to-the-royal) that card-pulling was very effective there then.
Generally speaking, card-pulling doesn't work at most places any more. And even at the casinos where it might work, I'm "famous enough" today that I don't wish to be seen on camera doing it. I assume that there are some casino managers in every place I play that think it's a bad idea to deal to me, and I don't wish to give these managers "ammunition." Trying to outfox their player tracking system might be ammunition enough for me to lose my welcome. So I don't pull my card at all today. There are players who think they're invisible in a casino. I conduct myself as though everything I do is being recorded.
Bob
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