Abraham de Moivre
Well-Known Member
Consider the following scenario:
you walk into a casino, sit down at a table, buy-in, and play a round of cards.
Let us look at it from the Pit Boss perspective (that guy standing at a podium about 10 feet away behind the tables.)
First, how are you dressed?
Are you wearing any jewerly? What type?
What kind of shoes do you have on? Shirt? Belt?
How did you walk up to the table--
Mouth hanging open, eyes looking around at all the flashing lights and ringing bells?
Did you stop a couple feet short of the table and watch a hand or two first?
Did you shove someone aside and start grabbing drink holders when sitting down?
When you bought in, did you try to hand the dealer your money?
Did you throw it into the dealer's area, while the dealer was changing another customer, with a "Me First" attitude?
Did you sit quietly with cash in front of you, until the dealer asked for your buy in?
How much did you buy in for?
Did you present a players card? Hold it up to the dealer and ask if you should give it to him?
Did you toss it seperately from your cash, to the corner of the table where the dealer normally puts it?
Did you just slide it with your cash, or did you even present a player's card?
When you got your chips did you--
reach over the table and grab them from the dealer?
neatly stack them into 15 piles of 3 chips each, and build a cute little pyramid with them along the rail?
try to place them in the slot machine coin bucket you have placed on the table?
take the one tall stack the dealer has pushed over to you, and without counting, expertly cut them into piles of 20 chips each?
place them all in a jumbled pile, stuffing half the chips into your pockets?
When the cards were dealt --
Did you try to pick them up in a face up game?
Peter Griffin in 'Theory of Blackjack' mentions that a novice player looks at his own cards first, and then as an after-thought checks the dealer's upcard. A more experienced player watches the dealer's upcard first. After all, it's not what you have but what the dealer has that counts, right? So where were you looking when the cards where dealt?
Notice -- The Pit Boss has already formed some pretty accurate conclusions about:
Your Income Level,
Your Social Status,
Your Personality,
Your Risk-taking aversion,
Your familarity of casinos,
Your knowledge level of the game,
Your Blackjack skills.
And all you thought you did was play a single hand of blackjack, and the Pit Boss never moved from his podium.
you walk into a casino, sit down at a table, buy-in, and play a round of cards.
Let us look at it from the Pit Boss perspective (that guy standing at a podium about 10 feet away behind the tables.)
First, how are you dressed?
Are you wearing any jewerly? What type?
What kind of shoes do you have on? Shirt? Belt?
How did you walk up to the table--
Mouth hanging open, eyes looking around at all the flashing lights and ringing bells?
Did you stop a couple feet short of the table and watch a hand or two first?
Did you shove someone aside and start grabbing drink holders when sitting down?
When you bought in, did you try to hand the dealer your money?
Did you throw it into the dealer's area, while the dealer was changing another customer, with a "Me First" attitude?
Did you sit quietly with cash in front of you, until the dealer asked for your buy in?
How much did you buy in for?
Did you present a players card? Hold it up to the dealer and ask if you should give it to him?
Did you toss it seperately from your cash, to the corner of the table where the dealer normally puts it?
Did you just slide it with your cash, or did you even present a player's card?
When you got your chips did you--
reach over the table and grab them from the dealer?
neatly stack them into 15 piles of 3 chips each, and build a cute little pyramid with them along the rail?
try to place them in the slot machine coin bucket you have placed on the table?
take the one tall stack the dealer has pushed over to you, and without counting, expertly cut them into piles of 20 chips each?
place them all in a jumbled pile, stuffing half the chips into your pockets?
When the cards were dealt --
Did you try to pick them up in a face up game?
Peter Griffin in 'Theory of Blackjack' mentions that a novice player looks at his own cards first, and then as an after-thought checks the dealer's upcard. A more experienced player watches the dealer's upcard first. After all, it's not what you have but what the dealer has that counts, right? So where were you looking when the cards where dealt?
Notice -- The Pit Boss has already formed some pretty accurate conclusions about:
Your Income Level,
Your Social Status,
Your Personality,
Your Risk-taking aversion,
Your familarity of casinos,
Your knowledge level of the game,
Your Blackjack skills.
And all you thought you did was play a single hand of blackjack, and the Pit Boss never moved from his podium.
