Ben Affleck has been busted card counting in Vegas.

While on a romantic getaway�� with his wife Jennifer Garner just prior to starting production in the highly-anticipated “Batman vs. Superman blockbuster, a source close to the A-list actor confirmed that he was asked to leave the famed Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on Tuesday.

The high-rollers tables where Affleck was playing blackjack was reportedly infiltrated by security after he was caught counting cards a gambling strategy that often refers to obtaining a sufficient count on the number, distribution and high-card location of cards in trick-taking games such as contract bridge or spades in order to optimize the winning of tricks. It’s not technically illegal, but heavily frowned upon by casinos.

Affleck was subsequently banned for life from playing blackjack at the venue.

Ben was banned from playing blackjack not booted from the casino because as the security said you are too good at the game,�� a source told FOX411. ��The hotel staff was really nice. They told him he could play other games and ended up getting him and Jennifer a car back to their hotel.

"Mr. Affleck, a valued guest of Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, is not banned from our property and is welcome back any time," a representative for the Hard Rock said in a statement Friday.

But the issue could spread beyond the Vegas-located Hard Rock. According to Radar Online, an all-points bulletin has been issued to Las Vegas most prominent casinos in the region accusing the passionate gambler of using perfect basic, a common introductory term for card counting. The site also reported that a week earlier, an internal email from the Games Protection Manager at the Wynn and Encore casinos alerted others in the industry that Affleck was being way to obvious moving his money with the count, spreading up to $100K on the double decks.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/05/02/source-ben-affleck-banned-from-playing-blackjack-at-las-vegas-hard-rock-hotel/

I am not a fan of Ben Affleck but this is BS. This whole card counting thing is out of control. Anyone who actually wins money they can ban because they are too good, so they must be counting cards. They don't need proof and it's not illegal. The casino's have the advantage on EVERY game in the place and the one time the player can get the edge on the casino where it's not illegal they do this, then send a memo to every other casino slandering someone.

This just fry's my a$$ living here in Nevada. There should be some regulations put on the casinos where they have to prove that the person is counting cards. Otherwise anyone who wins they can and will just go up to and accuse of counting cards.

Besides Ben Affleck isn't smart enough to count cards, he was just on a lucky streak. Either way the casino should have just let him keep playing, it's not worth the bad publicity.

SIGH...


as I stated in another thread,, smart without being a flashy condescending pedantic arse,,,lol,,,

What are you talking about.

Ben Affleck was my choice for a favorite celeb in another thread

one of my reasons is because he seems intelligent without coming off as a condescending pedantic arse,,,,him 'counting' cards, translated to him having intelligence,,,

He wasn't counting cards, he was just lucky. Casinos pull that crap on almost everyone who wins decent money at blackjack.

and you know this how?

I don't know he was 'lucky' or 'counting cards' as I wasn't there

though the article says he was 'caught' counting cards,,,



I BELIEVE that he is intelligent enough to have been doing just that


you may not believe so,, and that's certainly your prerogative,,,