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Then how come psychics never win the lottery?

I once read about one psychic who was able to predict the winning numbers of the roulette wheels and crap tables in casinos. According to the the author of the story, the psychic challenged him to pick any casino (cant recall if this was in Vegas or Atlantic City or Reno), and then pick out any table. Which the author did. The Psychic then told him which numbers to bet on. Which won everytime. According to the Author, the psychic did this in casinos around the world. But instead of breaking the bank at every casino, he merely would win enough money (around 6 figures), just up untill casino management would start taking notice of him. He would stop, cash in his winnings, get the hell out before they could kick him out, and move on to another casino where he would repeat the process.

Rainman is just a movie.

Seriously though,
Telekinesis does not exist.
Predicting the future does not exist.

It's called entertainment. It happens to be an intriguing subject matter so people find it fascinating.

ITS NOT REAL.

I once read about one psychic who was able to predict the winning numbers of the roulette wheels and crap tables in casinos. According to the the author of the story, the psychic challenged him to pick any casino (cant recall if this was in Vegas or Atlantic City or Reno), and then pick out any table. Which the author did. The Psychic then told him which numbers to bet on. Which won everytime. According to the Author, the psychic did this in casinos around the world. But instead of breaking the bank at every casino, he merely would win enough money (around 6 figures), just up untill casino management would start taking notice of him. He would stop, cash in his winnings, get the hell out before they could kick him out, and move on to another casino where he would repeat the process.

...and how much of a percentage of the psychic's subsequent business was this author getting? i.e., does he have a monetary incentive to tell tall tales about this "psychic's" amazing abilities, either due to a business arrangement with him, or due to the author's desire to sell books reassuring his readers of the existence of "real" psychics? It certainly wouldn't be the first time such a motive was behind "amazing claims" of this sort.

Amazing claims require amazing evidence, and I'm afraid that "some book makes the claim" doesn't rise to that level of proof, especially when there are so many other possible explanations.