How do casinos benefit from card counters?

[Mike_25]

How can card counters benefit casinos? While card counting itself is not illegal, casinos do everything they can to prevent it. However, card counters also provide benefits to casinos.

Card counters bring excitement and challenge to the tables. They raise the overall skill level of the blackjack players, improving the game. Some card counters also become VIP players, wagering large sums and generating significant revenue for casinos. Even when they win more often, card counters still lose over the long run due to the house edge. So in a sense, card counters subsidize the losses of lesser players, increasing casinos' overall profits.

 

[James108]

While card counters can potentially gain an advantage over the casino, the casino ultimately benefits from their presence. This is because card counting and advantage playing can increase the number of hands that are played per hour, which in turn increases the amount of money that is bet on each hand.