Tossed for being lucky
RxAmericaRPH said:
I am new to the SLC area, and went to visit wendover to play, and I won almost $6000 in about 20 minutes. I was playing max bet $500 the whole time, playing just basic strategy. About halfway to the 6k, the pit boss pulled the dealer aside (there was only 2 people playing on the whole floor) and told them to deal one round, then reshuffle. I thought....'what the heck...' and the dealer just rolled their eyes saying 'you probably should leave soon...' I was like I will soon. I got up to $6k and the pit boss said you have to leave right at the table and never to come back or they will 'list me'. I asked the dealer what time they got off, and they said in 10 minutes, so since there were only 4 dealers working at the time, I threw them 2k in chips and said its been fun!. You should have seen the steam come off the pb. Has anyone been thrown out from sheer luck? I only lost one hand the entire run so I wasnt counting cards or anything.....btw this is my first post so glad to be here.....and Ken you inspired me to get into BJ. thank yoU!
I think most of the questionable parts of your post have already been addressed but I will talk about your being thrown out for being lucky.
I happens to people every day in some sweat shop in Nevada where the average guy bets $5 but the lucky guy is betting significantly more. Does not matter if they think you are counting or actually know that you are not. Face it, if you were flat betting $500, you were not counting. They might have suspected you of hole carding but my strong impression is that you just skyrocketed past their very very low tolerance level. The grumpy pit already does not know how she will explain a 6K loss to her boss and is in fear for her job if she continued to let you play and you just kept adding to your total win. So she tossed you! It was, "get the hell out of here, your winning is ruining my pathetic life" And that is why you were tossed, you surpassed both the pits and the casinos tolerance level.
A 2K toke? Here is an area where LVBear and myself have some disagrement.
I toke modestly, he tends to not toke at all, but your toke is self destructive.
Understand that those dealers are part of the casino that offered the public a game where you could bet $500. You played by their rules and furthermore you flat betted which should give them the impression that you were playing the full time at a disadvantage. Yet they tossed you out. Rewarding the dealer part of that establishment gets you nothing, in fact you can not easily even return to say hello to those dealers. Also, if you won that much money in a half hour, you can even more easily lose that much money in a half hour and do you think there is any dealer in the world who would rebate 2K to you?
I think you threw the 2K to the dealers in a fit, to show up that pit lady and you know what? It does not matter to her a bit, her shift loss 6K, if you take it all or give a 1/3 to the dealers.
As an advantage player who has had relatives who have dealt (and been pits), do you know what, under those circumstances of your being tossed, those dealers expected from you? ZERO! And if you are the kind of person who cares if they like you or not, do not worry because the person the dealers would have been pissed at would have been their pit. A simple $25 tip to your last dealer actually would have been a surprise to him/her under these circumstances and they still would have been pissed at the pit. All you accomplished was throwing 2K away for nothing.
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