So, I’ve heard people mention (with conviction and apparent authority in some cases) that casinos, or at least the bigger casinos, will have magickal protection or at least detection against magicians and psychics who use their abilities to tip the odds.
When one considers spells to make money, of course winning at gambling comes to mind. In conventional cheating against casinos, all manner of non-magickal aids are used: surveillance, inebriation, a number of psychological tools (switching dealers, distraction, coolers), and plain old mathematics (all casino games are statistically in favor of the house).
I would like to hear a discussion of this, especially those of you who can speak with authority on this topic. What sorts of protections are used? What do you expect the distribution to be - random, mostly high-end casinos, etc.? Belief in magick is pretty sketchy in our society, so how many egomaniac casino managers would pay a magician, psychic or group of them to add magickal security?
Also, what measures would likely circumvent those protections? For instance, a person using intuition/foresight to predict cards might be detected where an entity skewing odds toward you may not. Forcing cards/dice/slots to bring up favorable draws may be noticed, where a money square doing the same thing more subtly may not.
I find this interesting not merely on the topic of money magick, but also from a sociological standpoint - at what points in our culture is magick taken to be a real thing, in this case a potential threat? While the mainstream culture considers belief in magick to be superstition and many of those who do believe have no real knowledge to justify their beliefs, there are undercurrents who do understand enough to act on that knowledge. And those undercurrents likely act in such a way as to maintain the veil of secrecy. After all, it is much easier to quietly eliminate and discredit the opposition than to allow the information to become acknowledged as real, at which point you become flooded with aspirants attempting to learn the newly “discovered” skills.