re: Was a motive ever released for the Las Vegas shooting?

No you just don't understand how technology has evolved to deal with player edges. Also having an edge doesn't make it a guarantee. Stephen Paddock didn't understand how to deal with the evolved game and people who know him reported how he started drinking more after losing more. leading to his eventual mental breakdown. Even card counting has largely been phased out. Sorry the CIA planned this to ban guns for some reason even though every CIA agent is pro-2A right?



"The elimination of most machines that don’t have a broad, built-in house edge has narrowed the field of those who are ready to drop millions, said Jean Scott, who has written several books about video poker and has played at a professional level for decades. “The advantage plays have gone away in recent years. It is getting hard to win,” Scott said. “The casino bean counters are getting tougher.”


Several semi-automated systems have been designed to aid detection of card counters. The MindPlay system (now discontinued) scanned card values as the cards were dealt. The Shuffle Master Intelligent Shoe system also scans card values as cards exit the shoe. Software called Bloodhound and Protec 21[34] allow voice input of card and bet values, in an attempt to determine the player edge. A more recent innovation is the use of RFID signatures embedded within the casino chips so that the table can automatically track bet amounts.[35]

Automated card-reading technology has known abuse potential in that it can be used to simplify the practice of preferential shuffling—having the dealer reshuffle the cards whenever the odds favor the players. To comply with licensing regulations, some blackjack protection systems have been designed to delay access to real-time data on remaining cards in the shoe.[36] Other vendors consider real-time notification to surveillance that a shoe is "hot" to be an important product feature.[37]

With card values, play decisions, and bet decisions conveniently accessible, the casino can analyze bet variation, play accuracy, and play variation.

Bet variation. The simplest way a card counter makes money is to bet more when they have an edge. While playing back the tapes of a recent session of play, software can generate a scatter plot of the amount bet versus the count at the time the bet was made and find the trendline that best fits the scattered points. If the player is not counting cards, there will be no trend; their bet variation and the count variation will not consistently correlate. If the player is counting and varying bets according to the count, there will be a trend whose slope reflects the player's average edge from this technique.[38]

Play variation. When card counters vary from basic strategy, they do so in response to the count, to gain an additional edge. Software can verify whether there is a pattern to play variation. Of particular interest is whether the player sometimes (when the count is positive) takes insurance and stands on 16 versus a dealer 10, but plays differently when the count is negative.

Countermeasures
Casinos have spent a great amount of effort and money in trying to thwart card counters. Countermeasures used to prevent card counters from profiting at blackjack include:[39][40][28][21]

Decreasing penetration, the number of the cards dealt before a shuffle. This reduces the advantage of card counting.
Banning known counters from playing blackjack, all games, or entering casino property (trespassing).
Shuffling when a player increases their wager or when the casino feels the remaining cards are advantageous to the player (preferential shuffling).
Changing rules for splitting, doubling down, or playing multiple hands. This also includes changing a table's stakes.
Not allowing entry into a game until a shuffle occurs (no mid-shoe entry).
Flat betting a player or making it so they cannot change the amount they bet during a shoe.
Cancelling comps earned by counters.
Confiscation of chips.
Detention (backrooming).

Google Dunning-Kruger it applies to you.

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Does virginia tech have any memorials, etc. up in relation to their mass killing that occurred there? I'm most certain its not mentioned to high school seniors on their college tour trips

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You can you know learn to use google and type in Virginia Tech shooting memorial and find out they do have a nice one with pictures of it and it is not something they hide.....

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nor was it a personal vendetta or random fit of rage.

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Most of his money came from the sale of a single apartment complex near Dallas that he had personally managed for many years. He sold it a couple of years prior to the shooting. After taxes he netted 2 or 3 million, money that he needed to last the rest of his life. Between a large gambling habit, buying houses for a girlfriend, and trying to live as a high roller, be blew through the money in only a couple of years. He realized the money was gone, he was too old to start over, maybe he blamed the casino, or everyone but himself, and decided to even the score. Sounds kind of like a perso vendetta to me.

He really, really didn’t like country music.

What does card counting have to do with video poker?

Again. Video Poker features fixed odds played with a random generator. Video poker has not really changed at all. Example: You know if you're playing a 9/6 Jacks or Better by the pay table. It has nothing to do with counting cards. That's at the poker table. Just proves you don't know video poker.

This is a video machine. Yes. Sure. Card counters are backed off quickly. There are other ways to win at the tables, though.

But we're not talking about the tables. We're talking about video poker. Totally different. Not a lot has changed. Just the odds aren't as good on every machine, but there are good machine odds at nearly every casino for particular games. You didn't even address this, but sure, not as many machines with good odds and the ones with good odds are spread out a lot of times. You have to find them, but it's not that hard. They're still around. He knew which ones were great odds to play. All you have to do is look at the pay table right in front of your face and understand what it means. You had a quote about slots and machines you don't know the odds like you do video poker. Totally different thing.

Video poker has not changed much at all since they went from analog to digital. I'd stay away from video poker if I were you.