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Thursday
Jan292009

CASINOS BAN KEITH BARRY

According to the Irish Herald, Magician Keith Barry has been banned from gambling in some of Las Vegas' top casinos. Barry states that is casino play was totally above board, but describes the incident in detail : "When I was there last October I was in the Palms hotel playing Blackjack at the table," he revealed. "I was making very irregular bets so the dealer started calling me Rainman, after the movie. Eventually she called the pit boss over, who studied my game pattern and asked me to leave the table and said to me, 'We'd rather not have your company tonight Mr Barry'. The next thing I know a few of the other casinos had sent out representatives to watch my show, where part of my act was to memorise a deck of cards in 20 seconds and that was that, I was banned from all the casinos."

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[...] an interesting line in this story about Keith Barry’s ban from Irish casinos, originally spotted by Dodd Vickers of the Magic Newswire. The last line of the report from The Dublin Herald: But [...]

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