The plot of Runner Runner is getting a little too close to home for Ben Affleck. Radar Online has a report that the actor was banned from playing at the Hard Rock Casino in Vegas the night of August 28th “due to moving his money with the count.”
According to the security firm Radar Online’s sister publication Star magazine got this information from, the security alert issued to the casino said the actor “uses perfect basic, but also takes insurance according to the count. Uses black $100 cheques to keep track of the count while playing.” According to Radar and Star, this report circulated around the casinos.
Ben is definitely an avid card player and gambler. In he qualified for the 2004 World Poker Tour final tournament, and just last year he was one of the major actors named in an extremely high stakes Russian-mobster run poker ring busted by the feds. Back in 2001 Ben entered rehab for both drinking and gambling, both habits he witnessed his father Tim Affleck struggle with as a child. “At the end of the football season there would either be tough times or we’d get a VCR,” Affleck told Vanity Fair in 1999 about the effect his father’s gambling had on the family’s finances. Tim Affleck eventually sought help for his addictions and afterwards took a job as a counselor at the facility where he received help.
