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** Two things of note: first thing you have to realize that the floor work of the team was a revenge con, not for any material gain. All the money they won on the floor was donated in Benedict's name. And yes, the majority of the people will probably just go back to gambling. That wasn't the goal. The goal was to hit Bank big on opening night to an amount he ''can't'' recover from. Whatever they do afterwards (they're not likely to go back after they had the opportunity to cash out the next day. Some will, yes, but only some on average) is up to them and not the team's concern. They just need to stop the money from going back in that night once Greco is back up. This goes into the ''real'' revenge plan, to hurt Bank's reputation. He's made a big show about how everything was his doing and how it's going to top everything he's ever done. Opening night comes and not only did everything publicly go wrong for him, he even had his precious pervious victories stolen. That's going to take ''years'' to recover from, if he ever does. Also Bank's is doomed as even if the casino performs as well as he claims (aka the 7 million per day), at ''best'' it's well short of the 500 million profit he needs to keep the casino (the loss of 500 million on opening night means he's needs to rope in a billion on first quarter, or an average of 11.2 million per day). Once that happens, he's gone.
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** Two things of note: first thing you have to realize that the floor work of the team was a revenge con, not for any material gain. All the money they won on the floor was donated in Benedict's name. And yes, the majority of the people will probably just go back to gambling. That wasn't the goal. The goal was to hit Bank big on opening night to an amount he ''can't'' recover from. Whatever they do afterwards (they're not likely to go back after they had the opportunity to cash out the next day. Some will, yes, but only some on average) is up to them and not the team's concern. They just need to stop the money from going back in that night once Greco is back up. This goes into the ''real'' revenge plan, to hurt Bank's reputation. He's made a big show about how everything was his doing and how it's going to top everything he's ever done. Opening night comes and not only did everything publicly go wrong for him, he even had his precious pervious victories stolen. That's going to take ''years'' to recover from, if he ever does. Also Bank's is doomed as even if the casino performs as well as he claims (aka the 7 5 million per day), at ''best'' it's well short of the 500 million profit he needs to keep the casino (the loss of 500 million on opening night means he's needs to rope in a billion on first quarter, or an average of 11.2 million per day). Once that happens, he's gone.
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** There was no "for all we know" if you look at the film again. Specifically pay attention during the evacuation of the casino during the "quake" one shot is over a worker drinking a beer. That's Roman dressed as a Shuffle Royale employee. The two red pen caps in the shirt pocket give it away if you're unsure, same as what he had at the beginning. Roman ''did'' say he'd doubt if he heard the last of it...
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** Two things of note: first thing you have to realize that the floor work of the team was a revenge con, not for any material gain. All the money they won on the floor was donated in Benedict's name. And yes, the majority of the people will probably just go back to gambling. That wasn't the goal. The goal was to get the gamblers out ''with their money that night.'' Whatever they do afterwards (they're not likely to go back after they had the opportunity to cash out the next day. Some will, yes, but only some on average) is up to them and not the team's concern. They just need to stop the money from going back in that night once Greco is back up. This goes into the ''real'' revenge plan, to hurt Bank's reputation. He's made a big show about how everything was his doing and how it's going to top everything he's ever done. Opening night comes and not only did everything publicly go wrong for him, he even had his precious pervious victories stolen. That's going to take ''years'' to recover from, if he ever does.
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** Two things of note: first thing you have to realize that the floor work of the team was a revenge con, not for any material gain. All the money they won on the floor was donated in Benedict's name. And yes, the majority of the people will probably just go back to gambling. That wasn't the goal. The goal was to get the gamblers out ''with their money that night.'' hit Bank big on opening night to an amount he ''can't'' recover from. Whatever they do afterwards (they're not likely to go back after they had the opportunity to cash out the next day. Some will, yes, but only some on average) is up to them and not the team's concern. They just need to stop the money from going back in that night once Greco is back up. This goes into the ''real'' revenge plan, to hurt Bank's reputation. He's made a big show about how everything was his doing and how it's going to top everything he's ever done. Opening night comes and not only did everything publicly go wrong for him, he even had his precious pervious victories stolen. That's going to take ''years'' to recover from, if he ever does. Also Bank's is doomed as even if the casino performs as well as he claims (aka the 7 million per day), at ''best'' it's well short of the 500 million profit he needs to keep the casino (the loss of 500 million on opening night means he's needs to rope in a billion on first quarter, or an average of 11.2 million per day). Once that happens, he's gone.
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** That form of rigging takes time and effort as they would have to be done through the central server that operates and tracks the machines. The odd machine giving a payout (remember, the only machines shown to do so was the progressive in the casino and the airport one at the end) is not unusual (the casino one was even questioned but classified as legit), but multiple ones in totally different locations would ring some bells in the gaming commission. Considering the slots was not the goal, only what was needed was set up.
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** You have to remember, that whole situation took place over the span of three minutes and it wasn't "everybody's winning", it was "more people than expected were winning", particularly the whales. It's not overly suspicious without a coordinated central observation which was taken out. By the time the pit bosses could coordinate in amongst themselves (remember, they still have to manage the floor as well and it was during a hotbed of floor activity) the Greco was back up and the "earthquake" started.
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** Benedict would have 3 options in this matter: First is to get his own money back. Not an option because that went to charity and would reveal him to be a monster. Even in the worst interpretation of him he's only ruthless in getting his money back when he's ripped off, not going that far. Second is to get the money from the team through his own connections. That's out because those are very visible and connected to him. Also because he has no proof he was cheated (because he wasn't) it would look as though he is engaging in strong-armed robbery. That's the most favorable interpretation without some digging as to ''why'' he's trying to get the money out of them. Third is getting the money from the team through the underworld. The few connections he has there would look at the situation and opt out. After all, Benedict tried to double-cross the team. Who's to say he won't try to double cross anyone else?
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** Two things of note: first thing you have to realize that the floor work of the team was a revenge con, not for any material gain. All the money they won on the floor was donated in Benedict's name. And yes, the majority of the people will probably just go back to gambling. That wasn't the goal. The goal was to get the gamblers out ''with their money that night.'' Whatever they do afterwards (they're not likely to go back after they had the opportunity to cash out the next day. Some will, yes, but only some on average) is up to them and not the team's concern. They just need to stop the money from going back in that night once Greco is back up. This goes into the ''real'' revenge plan, to hurt Bank's reputation. He's made a big show about how everything was his doing and how it's going to top everything he's ever done. Opening night comes and not only did everything publicly go wrong for him, he even had his precious pervious victories stolen. That's going to take ''years'' to recover from, if he ever does.
** Second was the exit strategy talked about. That has very little to do with most of the gamblers, only the pre-arranged whales and the team themselves. It was about ''their'' exit strategy, not everyone's. The discussion about getting everyone out was so they had a substantial cover. A handful of people leaving (especially if some of those are considered ''staff'' like Frank) while everyone else is staying to keep gambling is suspicious. Everyone leaving all at the same time over a matter of safety isn't.
** Second was the exit strategy talked about. That has very little to do with most of the gamblers, only the pre-arranged whales and the team themselves. It was about ''their'' exit strategy, not everyone's. The discussion about getting everyone out was so they had a substantial cover. A handful of people leaving (especially if some of those are considered ''staff'' like Frank) while everyone else is staying to keep gambling is suspicious. Everyone leaving all at the same time over a matter of safety isn't.
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**** Benedict only gives a quick look at the codes when he's handed them to confirm they're not repeats. Beyond that he doesn't reference them until he needs to use them. The swap happened ''after'' that happens and was so smooth he didn't even know about it. By the time he feels he needs to use the codes is after Rusty tells him he's being robbed.
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* It was not necessary for the heist itself, just for the Night Fox (as explained above). And it should probably be pointed out that this fact considerably "mitigates" the infamous CelebrityParadox twist: ''the ploy was not supposed to "work" in the first place''.
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* It was not necessary for the heist itself, just for the Night Fox (as explained above). And it should probably be pointed out that this fact considerably "mitigates" the infamous CelebrityParadox twist: ''the ploy was not never supposed to "work" in the first place''.place'' - or rather, it was supposed to work in a rather different way.
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* It was not necessary for the heist itself, just for the Night Fox (as explained above). And it should probably be pointed out that this fact considerably "mitigates" the infamous CelebrityParadox twist: ''the ploy was not supposed to work in the first place''.
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* It was not necessary for the heist itself, just for the Night Fox (as explained above). And it should probably be pointed out that this fact considerably "mitigates" the infamous CelebrityParadox twist: ''the ploy was not supposed to work "work" in the first place''.
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* It was not necessary for the heist itself, just for the Night Fox (as explained above). And it should probably be pointed out that this fact considerably "mitigates" the infamous CelebrityParadox twist: ''the ploy was not supposed to work in the first place''.
