> What is known about keeping tables full is
> that higher stakes players usually prefer to
> play either alone or virtually alone.

> Card counters perfer uncrowded conditions
> for the same reason that casino's should.

> What is really going on is a guessing game.

I thought 'bigplayer' was going to make my point (opinion) but stopped short.

Since I have been lurking here, I have read many many posts that discredit the intellignece of casino management, and some times rightly so. However I do believe that casino management can add and subtract, multiply and divide, and run numbers as well as we can.

My opinion, and that's all it is, is they run the numbers, know the score (or SCORE, no pun intended, but probably also true) and have made a decision. That decision (mistakenly) gives to much weight to how much money the counter can take them for; but that is their decision.

And knowing to be true what 'bigplayer' stated (see above), they crowd the tables to either thwart or slow the play of the counter.

Good move/bad move on their part; I don't know? But I believe that is why they do it.

On a related note -historically, I thought slots were there for the entertainment of the spouses of the real gamblers that showed up to play table games. Now I believe it to be reversing -table games are a neccessary evil used only to entertain the spouse of those coming to play slots -and the slower the game for those folks, they more they like it.

Sad.