If you show up at the window and eagerly ask how much you can bet on a prop, you immediately start getting profiled as the “wrong” type of customer.
When I first gambled in Las Vegas a couple years later, I discovered that they do things differently here. There, the limits were transparent: if you were ever curious how much action they’d take on an event, you could type $1,000,000 into the wager box and see what the computer counter-offered. I started betting on sports on the internet in the mid-2000s. In that spirit, let’s imagine what you’d do if for some reason you were trying to get banned as quickly as possible, and discuss how to avoid being that guy. slow the game down to a glacial pace, talk so quietly that the audience can’t hear you) and how can I do the exact opposite of that?” I like to offer a thought experiment: “what would the absolute worst contestant look like (e.g. Plug alert: I’m hosting a 100%-for-charity fundraiser in Las Vegas in August called the Game Show Boot Camp, and one of our seminars is about how to ace an audition in front of TV producers.
