Casino in Brief: Movie Moments

In the 1988 movie Rain Man during the casino scene, the dealer shorts the chip payout by $100, demonstrating that it was a dirty casino. Raymond then later "incorrectly" guesses the number on the roulette wheel, showing that the casino is manipulating games since Raymond is never wrong about the correct number.

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 In the movie 21, Jeffrey. The Planet Hollywood Casino blackjack dealer (named Jeffrey) that Jim Sturgess's character, Ben Cambell, refers to as "my brother from another mother," is Jeff Ma, a member of the real-life MIT blackjack team, and also the individual that Sturgess's character is based on.

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James Bond is a terrible tipper. In Casino Royale. he gives the dealer $1 million, but had just won a staggering $115 million. That's less than 1% of his winnings.

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More Casino Quotes

The only sure thing about luck is
that it will change.
Bret Harte
(1836-1902; American author and poet)

When I was young,
people called me a gambler.
As the scale of my operations increased
I became known as a speculator.
Now I am called a banker.
But I have been doing
the same thing all the time.
Sir Ernest Cassel
(1852-1921; German-born British merchant banker and capitalist)

In gambling the many must lose
in order
that the few may win.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950; Irish playwright
and co-founder of the London School of Economics)

Luck, bad if not good,
will always be with us.
But it has a way of favoring the intelligent
and showing its back to the stupid.
John Dewey
(1859-1952; American psychologist and educational reformer)

Remember this:
The house doesn’t beat the player.
It just gives him the opportunity
to beat himself.
Nicholas Dandolos, a.k.a. “Nick the Greek”
(1883-1966; Greek-born professional gambler and high roller)

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