“Also $100/hand or higher table poker. This guy lived numbers and looked at gambling like a job so it follows he counted cards. “
Do you have any basis for that statement?
He would sit in front of them for hours, often wagering more than $100 a hand
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/us/stephen-paddock-gambling.html
“He was a math guy,” Eric added. “He could tell you off the top of his head what the odds were down to a tenth of a percent on whatever machine he was playing. He studied it like it was a Ph.D. thing. It was not silly gambling. It was work.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/us/stephen-paddock-gambling.html
Why do the casinos have games where the players can come out ahead?
“It’s because there are so many bad players,” Shackleford said. “For every skilled player, there are probably 100 lousy players. They subsidize the skilled players.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stephen-paddock-motive-las-vegas-gunman-gambling-habits/