A patron of the Grand Victoria Casino in Rising Sun, Indiana, recently won his appeal against the riverboat for prohibiting him from playing blackjack. Thomas Donovan admitted to “counting cards”, which gives the player a better chance of winning, by factoring in which cards have already been played. While there is no law against “card counting”, the casino argued it had a right to exclude any patron for any reason at all, so long as that patron’s civil rights are not violated. The court found otherwise, stating that blackjack is regulated exclusively by the Indiana Gaming Commission, and the casino was not allowed to prohibit Donovan from playing based solely upon his “mental conduct in the course of casino blackjack.”