Ben Affleck Admits To Counting Cards

Ben Affleck has indeed been counting cards, and has now confirmed rumours he was collared by casino bosses earlier this year.

But he claims the situation wasn’t quite as dramatic as it was played out in the media.

In a revealing interview with US magazine Details, Batfleck explained just what happened.

“That is a true story. I mean, that took place,” he said.

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“I took some time to learn the game and became a decent blackjack player. And once I became decent, the casinos asked me not to play blackjack.

“I mean, the fact that being good at the game is against the rules at the casinos should tell you something about casinos.

“I had always liked blackjack. I don’t play any other games of chance. I don’t bet on football games, and I don’t gamble at all, really, outside of that.

“But I knew with blackjack that there’s a way you can improve your odds. And so I started trying to learn. And then I just got to a point in my life where I’m like, ‘If I’m going to do something, I’m going to try and do it really well’.

“It was sort of presented like I did something illegal. You know what I mean?”

He added that he was still welcomed at such establishments nonetheless.

“There were a number of casinos that said, ‘Hey, you can’t play blackjack here. We know you count cards. But, you know, you’re welcome to come, do whatever you want, see a show, have dinner’.

“We’ll comp ya. Play roulette, we know you don’t play craps, but hang out, we still want your presence and business.

“I wish I could say they were afraid of me in every capacity, but they only said, ‘No blackjack’.

“That would be awesome [if they threw me out]. ‘Get him outta here! He’s a magician!’

“Unfortunately, they just came up and said, ‘We can’t let you play blackjack. But we have other table games! We have Chinese poker!’”

As for the rumours about his gambling affecting his marriage to actress Jennifer Garner, with whom Affleck has three children, he denounced them as nonsense.

“See, that’s tabloid s**t. That’s all bulls**t. They completely lie. I mean, I can show you 10 articles of Star and OK! - those magazines feel totally comfortable absolutely fictionalizing every single element of the story.

“And there’s nothing you can do about that. My only hope is that people with any common sense recognize that those stories are false. And, I don’t know, there’re worse stories.”

Affleck is next up on screens in David Fincher’s ‘Gone Girl’, out on October 3.

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