Lady counters must be laughing all the way to the bank...

[Brillo]

I often see the counter pictures posted in the pit and they all have on thing in common: they all look like the guy who never gets laid and had his lunch money stolen in high school. Now, this profile cannot constitute all the counters out there, but this is what the casinos are looking for: the dorky guy with the glasses and baseball cap, with a few Asians sprinkled in.

We have this Asian who comes in all the time who is only allowed a $10 dollar flat bet. He'll try to up it and when told he can't he starts whining about how we are discriminating against Asians. I tell him that I have to do what they tell me, I could care less if he counts are not or what his ethnicity is, but it's always the same routine. Anyway, he fits that exact profile, he's in his late 30's and always comes in with his mommy.

I will bet there are female and black counters out there making a killing with minimal heat. Not that many perhaps, but we will never know because the casinos do not seem to think they are a threat.

 

[Automatic Monkey]

You're probably right

I'm an older-looking gentleman who drinks like a fish (or so I allow it to appear), curses like a confectioner's wife and looks like I might have been the guy who beat up the geek, and I get very little heat. So that's good, I don't fit the profile at all apparently except for being male and Caucasian. And what percent of their whales are Caucasian male, maybe 90%?

What kind of bankrolls do these guys with the glasses and baseball caps have?

 

[Tom]

Casino ignorance.

On my side of the table(not yours)I have found Asians to be the worst gamblers...casinos favorite customer. They often believe in ying-yang theory,progressive betting and superstitions,pick your poison. Your pitboss probably backed off a big ploppy,not a card counter. Something else I find humorous is a pitboss thinking anyone who looks smart and wears glasses is a card counter,this is total nonsense. Yet again,casino ignorance.

Currious of why you lurk here sense you're not a card counter,but a casino employee. What are your intentions?

 

[Victoria]

women can not count!!!!!!!!!!! especially Latinas

Now that that is said, lets move on to the next subject. We must not kill any money making stereotypes.
Victoria

 

[Brillo]

I count as well...

I don't play the game often because I hate it and I wouldn't consider myself to be a great counter but I will play sometimes to earn a little extra money.

If you are speaking of your typical Asian baccarat player you might have a point, scribbling on those sheets and analyzing every single bet to death as if it really made a difference in the outcome of the next hand.

Oh, and I just saw a picture of a lady who was just caught. She was wearing dark sunglasses, a baseball cap and was all hunched over, trying a bit too hard. She stuck out like a sore thumb, didn't look like your typical loud-mouth lady snapper player.

 

[Brillo]

Oh....

some of these guys have huge bankrolls. They'll buy in for a small amount then start pulling huge wads of hundreds out of their pockets and are not interested in being rated. That's sends up a red flag when you consider the average gambler seems to get more pissed over not getting a cafe or cigarette comp than they are over losing $500.

 

[Tom]

Not only baccarat.

I'm talking about the typical asian gambler. What makes you think they only use their systematic voodoo beliefs at baccarat and nothing else? They use this ying-yang theory event at virtually every gambling game.

Oh,by the way, is there a Casino employee forum where I can lurk and post once and a while? Just give them some of their own medicine back. Also just because you see a picture of somebody hanging in the pit does not mean they're a card counter,they can be anything.

Something else I might add since you work for a casino...Take a good look in the Griffin book(if your casino uses Griffin)and you will see card counters as a small minority,most of the book consist of ,crooks,slot cheats,rip-offs,mobsters,scamsters,etc.

Tom

 

[suicyco maniac]

I have only seen....

2 PROFICEINT female counters and was surprised both times...Female counters are definatly rare...SM

 

[learning to count]

Victoria, eres latina?????

 

[Sonny]

A place to lurk for Tom

> Oh,by the way, is there a Casino employee forum where I can lurk and post
> once and a while?

Sarcasm aside, check out the message boards here:

(Dead link: http://www.casinodealers.net/)

You will find plenty of floormen and dealers complaining about their jobs and bitching at each other. It's almost as entertaining as watching people fight here!

-Sonny-

 

[john]

You call this fighting ? You ain't seen nothing

I meant to use incorrect grammar. Hopefully, I have brushed off nearly all of my redneck roots.

Go admit to being a newbie on a C++ programming messageboard and ask a question that they think is really easy to answer. Watch out because those guys will nail you.

 

[suicyco maniac]

Funny site Sonny

 

[Victoria]

mostly/sort of

Dad is Puerto Rican, my mother's family is well kind of different. Cuban, Italian from Sardinia, Italian from Southern Italy and Jewish (from both Italy and Germany) It is from mom's family where I became a third generation card counter. Or you could say I am just a typical X New Yorker.

Any real oldtimers out there who knew a Meyer B in AC, who was called Mr M in Vegas and was an X table game manager in Cuba?