The casino scene
Maybe instead of blackjack he should have been playing craps or roulette. I know he wants to stay low but it wouldn't take very long to make a couple thousand.
"...and we'll see you tomorrow night!"
Same concept. He wins against the house. Learn your movies AND casino games.
shareI'm a dealer and although I don't know much about betting on horses, craps is a game that the dealers cannot control because all they do is pay or take depending on what comes up. He would stay below suspicion by purposely losing every so often and betting the prop bets.
"...and we'll see you tomorrow night!"
I'm trying to remember that scene now. I saw that movie a while ago now. I think he wanted to just lay low if I'm not mistaken. Not sure now though.
shareHe is trying to lay low but big winners on blackjack get more attention than craps and roulette.
"...and we'll see you tomorrow night!"
It's hard to say whether it's a flaw in the movie or a flaw in our interpretation of his character. Since he can see the future like he can, we assume he's basically the equivalent of having 5 million IQ, but not necessarily. He might believe the way he handles blackjack (which for all we know could be losing periodically but generally winning) is good enough to prevent suspicion, and maybe it had been for many years and this was the day that someone happened to pay a little more attention to him and recognize who he was.
There's a possibility he'd been going from casino to casino doing it and this is just the one time that someone catches on. Keep in mind it's not like he can see 2 minutes into the future, and then from that point see another 2 minutes and just always avoid it - he realizes the guy is paying attention to him probably because at that point the order is given to get him, he can see in the next 2 minutes that he's going to get picked up by security. Basically as soon as it's a possible future for him, he can see it.
So yea, I don't really know what to make of it, but I agree that there'd be less eyeballs on roulette and craps and they're still games against the house. He could also forego all of that *beep* and just win $10k pots on slots at different casinos every month - low enough that he doesn't draw suspicion and enough to get by comfortably. I was a bit puzzled in the beginning with his hitting the jackpot on that one slot and not simply sticking with that, but maybe he switches games up too - who knows.