EDITOR’S NOTE: “Vegas Myths Busted” publishes every Monday, with a bonus Flashback Friday edition. Today’s entry in our ongoing series originally ran on Aug. 14, 2023. In the Oscar-nominated 2003 movie “The Cooler,” William H. Macy portrays a downtown Las Vegas casino employee whose job is to reverse winning streaks. Bernie Lootz — get it, lose? — has such extraordinary bad luck, all he needs to do is sit next to a guest experiencing good luck and it stops. Actor William H. Macy sells an urban legend in the 2003 movie “The Cooler.” (Image: Lion’s Gate) “No job like this can exist today in Las Vegas,” Anthony F. Lucas, a professor of casino management at UNLV and former gaming industry operations analyst, told Casino.org. “Many in-house procedures and external regulations are in place to ensure randomness is present in the production of the outcomes on all games.” Employing someone to alter the random process of statistics would qualify as cheating. Players would… Read More
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