Self confessed card counting BEN AFFLECK bites the hand that dealt him. WHY?
Affleck told Details magazine that he was indeed counting cards while playing blackjack at a Vegas casino – a forbidden practice in affluent gaming circles.
“That is a true story,” Bat Fleck, 42, admitted, after being asked if he was indeed booted from 3 different Sin City asked about alleged incidents that took place at three different Sin City casinos including the Hard Rock. “I mean, that took place.
“And once I became decent, the casinos asked me not to play blackjack. I mean, the fact that being good at the game is against the rules at the casinos should tell you something about casinos.”
“I don’t gamble at all, really, outside of that … ,” he divulged. “I knew with blackjack that there’s a way you can improve your odds.
“And so I started trying to learn. And then I just got to a point in my life where I’m like, ‘If I’m going to do something, I’m going to try and do it really well.’
The Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice star said that he wasn’t booted out of any establishment per se, but told to refrain from playing blackjack, specifically.
“I wish I could say they were afraid of me in every capacity, but … they just came up and said, ‘We can't let you play blackjack. But we have other table games! We have Chinese poker!’”
Without a note of satiric racism, he noted casinos “certainly offer you all kinds of stuff to show up … just hoping that you’re going to be some dumb celebrity that’s gonna dump money.
“And I guess I was that! Until I figured it out, and then they were like, “F*ck him, get him outta here!”
Afflicted Ben claims he's not a compulsive gamble despite published reports suggesting otherwise.
“Usually, when you’re a compulsive gambler,” Affleck told the mag, “the casinos don’t ask you to leave because you’re beating them, you know?”
Uh huh.
