from recent play
Scenario I
Sat down to play at a table about half full to hear the woman at third base say "Its not good playing at a table that is not full especially near the entrance because you always get these players that come in and out and mess up the cards."
I said "you know I have never believed that any other player's play. In or out, hitting or not hitting, splitting or not splitting, etc. affects anybody elses cards. Here let me show you"
She groans loudly.
I: "ok, this whole next shoe I am going to pull hands in and out and show you that it makes no difference"
She groans more loudly.
The rest of the dialogue goes something like this:
"See I came in just in time to put the dealer off of that Ace"
"Oh, right ! like you really expect your double downs to hit every time ?"
"He would have beat us that hand anyway."
"You dont have to thank me just send chips"
"draw 5 cards to make 21. of course cause he's the dealer."
"boy. you are geting a lot of 16's"
She kept groaning. not saying much of anything else and she never left either.. But, with the cover of my "demonstration" i had a pretty good shoe playing to the strong counts of the shoe.
Scenario II
A special promotion night at the casino. Tons of people show up for the drawing for a Cadillac Escalade after about a 6 week long promotion. The place is packed.
Tough to find a spot open to play anywhere. Good news - I have a spot at one of the few $10, bad news - "1/2 hour the table is going up to $25". Worse news - I had been playing for several hours and am near the end of my playing stake. Cant't afford to bet at a $25 table.
So here is the setting. I am sitting at a 25 min table down to my last 4 green chips. Table full of neo-novice players, mostly drunk, struggling to figure out what to with 14 against a 6 or how to play a pair of 8's against and 8, just hoping for BJ's to keep it simple, would just as well be playing the big wheel or craps. Pit crew is totally absorbed with all the crowds of people and no time at all to pay attention to anything in particular. And the crew of dealers to cover this hyper busy night ? All trainees and novices. Suddenly I was hit the realization that I was the only one that knew anything at all about this game. I may for the moment be chip poor but, I own this table.
SO. I began by telling the dealer that I will come into the game when I am ready. She says "cool" and winks. The novices beat each other up and made stupid bets and plays, the dealer struggled through payouts, keeping hands going, adding the hands, etc. with no help at all from the pit. And I was calmly keeping track of the count with my precious little stake safe until the count finlly got rich enough . played my few hands and won them. Next shoe - same thing. The relief dealer shows up, also a trainee. The regular dealer has only one instruction to her before leaving. The guy at 3rd base plays whenever he feels like it. So, she gives me a wink and we go on... through 5 shoes at the end of which time I was up over $1000. No heat whatever. and i only left because I was exhausted and felt like I was waiting to long between positive counts.
Scenario III
I sit down at an open spot at the table. One spot left of center. one guy sitting to my left covering the 2 end spots. When I sit down he puts his bet in my playing circle. Starts a big fuss saying that he does not want any player to come in ahead of him and taking the cards that would have been his. I was in no mood to back down from this. So, we had a bit of a scene. PC comes over we are at a standstill for about 5 minutes while I tried to figure out what I wanted to get out of this situation.
I dont really care so much where I play but , the spot that I sat at seemed to offer the possibility of spreading to 2 hands and my general rule is that unless there is some advantage to me I give up nothing to another player ----- as a result at the places where I play most often I am either hated, feared or respected. Mostly hated - but only by other players. The dealers and pit crews seem to like me a lot because I am one of the few players that does not whine, swear at and/or abuse them. I have long come to the realization that there is nothing that other players can do or say to effect your game. One just has to learn to play through the distraction. I just tune them out or if need be intimidate them to keep them quiet. If they are too much of a nuissance it it easier to find another table to play at.------but here I was faced with this stubborn, irritating player. Then another player on the right side of the table offers to give up his spot. Giving me the 2 adjacent spots that I wanted. I took it acting petty and spiteful (maybe it was not such an act
)
I moved over and said to my table rival "ok, you did not want anyone playing ahead of you but now I am . and I would like to pay close attention to how many ways I cAn think of messing up your game . I will split T's, I will stand on 16's, hit my soft 18's, split9's and 4's. and play hand in and hand out whenever i feel like.
License to steal . my only regret was that i did not get the chance to split T's. and he stopped playing before the end of the of the shoe but, hung around to watch me play for 2 more shoes..
Scenario I
Sat down to play at a table about half full to hear the woman at third base say "Its not good playing at a table that is not full especially near the entrance because you always get these players that come in and out and mess up the cards."
I said "you know I have never believed that any other player's play. In or out, hitting or not hitting, splitting or not splitting, etc. affects anybody elses cards. Here let me show you"
She groans loudly.
I: "ok, this whole next shoe I am going to pull hands in and out and show you that it makes no difference"
She groans more loudly.
The rest of the dialogue goes something like this:
"See I came in just in time to put the dealer off of that Ace"
"Oh, right ! like you really expect your double downs to hit every time ?"
"He would have beat us that hand anyway."
"You dont have to thank me just send chips"
"draw 5 cards to make 21. of course cause he's the dealer."
"boy. you are geting a lot of 16's"
She kept groaning. not saying much of anything else and she never left either.. But, with the cover of my "demonstration" i had a pretty good shoe playing to the strong counts of the shoe.
Scenario II
A special promotion night at the casino. Tons of people show up for the drawing for a Cadillac Escalade after about a 6 week long promotion. The place is packed.
Tough to find a spot open to play anywhere. Good news - I have a spot at one of the few $10, bad news - "1/2 hour the table is going up to $25". Worse news - I had been playing for several hours and am near the end of my playing stake. Cant't afford to bet at a $25 table.
So here is the setting. I am sitting at a 25 min table down to my last 4 green chips. Table full of neo-novice players, mostly drunk, struggling to figure out what to with 14 against a 6 or how to play a pair of 8's against and 8, just hoping for BJ's to keep it simple, would just as well be playing the big wheel or craps. Pit crew is totally absorbed with all the crowds of people and no time at all to pay attention to anything in particular. And the crew of dealers to cover this hyper busy night ? All trainees and novices. Suddenly I was hit the realization that I was the only one that knew anything at all about this game. I may for the moment be chip poor but, I own this table.
SO. I began by telling the dealer that I will come into the game when I am ready. She says "cool" and winks. The novices beat each other up and made stupid bets and plays, the dealer struggled through payouts, keeping hands going, adding the hands, etc. with no help at all from the pit. And I was calmly keeping track of the count with my precious little stake safe until the count finlly got rich enough . played my few hands and won them. Next shoe - same thing. The relief dealer shows up, also a trainee. The regular dealer has only one instruction to her before leaving. The guy at 3rd base plays whenever he feels like it. So, she gives me a wink and we go on... through 5 shoes at the end of which time I was up over $1000. No heat whatever. and i only left because I was exhausted and felt like I was waiting to long between positive counts.
Scenario III
I sit down at an open spot at the table. One spot left of center. one guy sitting to my left covering the 2 end spots. When I sit down he puts his bet in my playing circle. Starts a big fuss saying that he does not want any player to come in ahead of him and taking the cards that would have been his. I was in no mood to back down from this. So, we had a bit of a scene. PC comes over we are at a standstill for about 5 minutes while I tried to figure out what I wanted to get out of this situation.
I dont really care so much where I play but , the spot that I sat at seemed to offer the possibility of spreading to 2 hands and my general rule is that unless there is some advantage to me I give up nothing to another player ----- as a result at the places where I play most often I am either hated, feared or respected. Mostly hated - but only by other players. The dealers and pit crews seem to like me a lot because I am one of the few players that does not whine, swear at and/or abuse them. I have long come to the realization that there is nothing that other players can do or say to effect your game. One just has to learn to play through the distraction. I just tune them out or if need be intimidate them to keep them quiet. If they are too much of a nuissance it it easier to find another table to play at.------but here I was faced with this stubborn, irritating player. Then another player on the right side of the table offers to give up his spot. Giving me the 2 adjacent spots that I wanted. I took it acting petty and spiteful (maybe it was not such an act
)I moved over and said to my table rival "ok, you did not want anyone playing ahead of you but now I am . and I would like to pay close attention to how many ways I cAn think of messing up your game . I will split T's, I will stand on 16's, hit my soft 18's, split9's and 4's. and play hand in and hand out whenever i feel like.
License to steal . my only regret was that i did not get the chance to split T's. and he stopped playing before the end of the of the shoe but, hung around to watch me play for 2 more shoes..