Quote Originally Posted by Ryemo View Post
Ok that's different. I mentioned in my original post that they could place a cap on table max. But they cannot single one person out and tell them they are flat bet. That's what I mean. They can't flat bet someone in the traditional sense.
No, they can't just single you as a person out for anything, but they can make changes to the games on the fly to discourage you playing any further. The legality of it, and why Missouri put this through legislature, was just to make sure that all players are treated equally at the table, to encourage all people to play (including counters), and keep unnecessary actions the casinos might take, out of their hands to keep revenue flowing in.

As an example, the state of Missouri makes zero dollars from a resident who is barred from, say, St Charles Ameristar, Further, casinos often share information, so if a counter were barred from Ameristar in St. Charles, that information might spread down the street to Hollywood, and then to Lumierre, and so forth down to river city. All of a sudden, the state makes zero dollars from that resident, and that resident must go out of state or at least across the state for their action. Lets be honest, they'll slip into Illinois. The state doesn't like when players get barred from casinos in Missouri, specifically because at the two main "hubs" of casinos in Missouri (KC and STL) both have rivals across the border. Kansas state has indian casinos and a few state casinos, newest being Hollywood in KCK, with which KCMO casinos compete directly with. In STL, on the Illinois side, they might compete with Argosy Alton or Casino Queen, and then all of the bigger Illinois casinos centers like Aurora, Joliet, Chicago Proper, Hammond,IN. You get the picture. The state thinks that if you find yourself a counter, giving him a shitty game wherever he goes on the property will dissuade him enough from doing it there again, and perhaps push him towards other means of play, like slots, VP, etc. The state makes revenue on all of those games, so it makes no sense to ban them from the property in the state's eyes. In fact, they encourage it, because they know all blackjack players at some point, if they are serious enough, will learn how to count in some form, and that just increases their play, and the casino hopes they aren't truly good enough to present enough of an impact. In doing so, however, Missouri allowed for several "supported counter-measures" that are perfectly legal within the state, so long as the action is unilateral to all players at the table.