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Originally Posted by PokerPlayingGamble
That is simply not true, casinos can and do back off and/or ban players simply based on aggregate win. Casino staff aren't omniscient, they don't know if you are an advantage player, a cheater, or just a lucky whale. Sometimes they guess wrong.
You would have to run statistically off the charts to get banned from a large casino for winning at a game like baccarat, absent any evidence of cheating/advantage play.
Casinos are very aware that people have hot streaks, so the last thing they want to do is send a whale to play at the competition, where he will lose it all back to them.
There are a few exceptions. A smaller casino might decide it doesn't want the continued risk, and will just decide to pay the whale and be done. If there's some sort of nonstandard method of play or betting which they can't understand, but seems to be working, they might ban the player. (Think of Ivey with the edge sorting, who wasn't banned at the time, but at the very least they could have seen nonstandard betting patterns which would seem to indicate that he might have known when he had an edge.)
There are responsible gaming bans. The infamous Terrence Watanabe was banned from Wynn for that reason, after Steve Wynn himself met with him, (correctly) judged the guy to be a massive problem gambler, and told his staff to ban the guy. Watanabe took the rest of his family fortune over to Caesars and lost it there.
If a whale sits at baccarats and bets like a whale and just runs hot, zero chance they ban the guy at any strip casino, aside from responsible gaming concerns.