“hey don't even want you to have a sporting chance, really,” he says. The experience seems to have taught Affleck something about Vegas’s gambling system. On the way in, I did not have status yet. Hard Rock Atlantic City charges for parking on the way in, and Ocean charges for parking on the way out. It was cold, and we are Floridians, so we drove down but parked at Ocean Casino. I mean, the fact that being good at the game is against the rules at the casinos should tell you something about casinos.” Once you have your physical Caesars players card, you’ll head about a mile down the boardwalk to Hard Rock AC. And once I became decent, the casinos asked me not to play blackjack. “I took some time to learn the game and became a decent blackjack player. “That is a true story,” Affleck confesses when asked by Details about the card-counting report. (For those who prefer to spend the majority of their casino time on enticingly themed slot machines-Kitty Glitter, anyone?-counting cards is not illegal but a carefully learned strategy that gives the player an edge over the casino.) And now, in a new interview with Details, the actor cops to card-counting and speaks candidly about the situation.
At the time, TMZ suggested that the star of David Fincher’s Gone Girl adaptation was caught counting cards at a high-rollers’ table, and was asked-er, required-by casino security to stop playing. This past May, it was reported that Ben Affleck-Oscar-winning filmmaker, actor, and newly minted superhero-was banned for life from playing blackjack at the Hard Rock casino in Las Vegas.
