Flow Worshippers

Dschddny

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I had a much more pleasant blackjack experience yesterday in Atlantic City (compared to my previous trip) not only because I came out ahead, but also because I managed to avoid worshippers of "the flow" throughout most of the day. I tended to end up (by luck only) with more serious, quiet players who kept to themselves than those who love to yap at the table and complain when anyone messes with their sacred flow. This enabled me to jump in and out, vary my number of spots played, and sit out hands whenever I wanted, without the usual complaints. Does anyone else find that most flow worshippers are females between the ages of 25 and 55? This has been my experience. Also, I had a dealer complain to a table of ploppies, concerning my jumping and in and out and messing up the flow!
 

wong out

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Ahh; work the ploppy bs into your act and pretend to be unaware of their concerns. You can have fun watching them get upset. For the record - I have seen as many men as ladies be flow worshippers.

wong out
 

gehrig

Well-Known Member
without those...

"flow worshippers"/hunch bettors/"ploppies", you wannabe "advantage" players would be cyphering (jethro bodine) some negative expectancy electronic slot.

those dis-advantage players support the entire game...the house, the corporate shareholders, the pitstiffs, the dealers, and the "skilled" players. instead of dissing them, cheer them on. would all players be at basic strategy level, the game would be modified so as to be unattackable. how about a pit of oddessey slots with the white gloved hands pitching a 21 game instead of video poker hands ? a nice fresh deck each hand, doubling on 10/11, no resplits, et cetera.

if your problem is dealing with ploppy objections to your play, then i suggest that your act is weak. playing this game extends to "working" the pitstiffs, the dealers, other contestants, even the unseen observers to the game.
 

Victoria

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embrace the flow within your act

The count is high, you just lost a hand, now is the time to spread to two or perhaps three hands and Change the Flow for the good of all.
The count is negative, you just lost a hand, now is the time to sit out and Change the Flow for the good of all because as all good ploppies know, blackjack is a team sport and you are changing the flow for the good of the team.
If it did not work, you at least tried your best.
Speak ploppyish if others at the table are flow worshippers.
Still there will be times that good blackjack sense will set you apart and you will get heat from loud ploppies and most times you should just take it but, sometimes you must respond. If the count is high and you really piss them off, you might be left alone with the dealer and a high count. In looking at my own play in these situations, I find that I will sheepishly take ploppy abuse in a neutral count, be upset enough to leave the table in a negative count, and respond with an answer the ploppy does not like in a highly positive count. Just seems to work out that way, strange.
Victoria guilty of forbidden double soft 18 and splitting 9's according to the ploppy BS (not basic strategy) at the local casino.
 
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