alwayssplitaces
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Spent a week in Vegas on a room comp from Harrahs. The first day I was there was the only day I generated action at Harrahs with my card. I mostly played blackjack downtown.
At a notorious sweatshop that offers the best blackjack rules at low limits in Vegas, I acted like an idiot in the first hour, playing and betting like a maniac only when the pit boss was watching my play. And I convinced him I was an idiot. I played there for 6 more hours overnight, and had a nice win. I always moved to empty tables whenever someone joined my table since the place was mostly empty. I ratholed away my wins and kept buying in all night so they thought I was losing. Left in the morning when the sun rose and the ploppies arrived in droves. I returned to that place 2 nights later when the same pit boss was working, and he recognized me and "knew" I was an idiot. At the end of that session he offered me a room comp for my next visit. I don't plan on using that comp because I may get backed off there.
I spread my play at the double decks in Fremont, California, and the single deck at Binions (D10 H17 NDAS $5 min) till they got full late in the morning. I found a nice $15 DD at Treasure Island with H17 DAS DA2 and ~70% pen. I had it heads up for hours and had a $400 swing in the session, ending up with a small profit. I left when the pit boss was watching me play since I felt a little heat.
Evenings are the best time to play poker and consequently the worst time to play blackjack. There were plenty of drunk fish at O'Sheas. I estimate over 50% of the players saw the flop even with bad hands like 10-2 offsuited. My favorite moment was winning someone's entire stack with A-K suited that hit a full house on the flop. Someone else who I observed playing loose all night had A-4 offsuit and was raising me to the river, thinking his 3 aces with a 4 kicker was gold.
Casino Royale has this promotional machine that gives out free $5 match play to anyone (smart enough to stop when they receive the match play offer and not continue on to win the worthless $50 free slot play). They did not observe me hitting that machine 10 times in an hour. The match play yielded a $70 profit. It was even money bets only, so I bet a coupon on almost every game they offered. It sucked that the match play portion of my blackjack bet did not pay 6-5 on blackjack, but only even money, a bigger rip off than 6-5. But having the coupon was like getting better than 2-1 on blackjack and 2-1 on any winning hand.
I tried to keep a majority of my blackjack bets in odd numbers ($5, $21, $25, etc) so I would receive a 50 cent coin with each blackjack. I kept all the 50 cent pieces. Assuming I got a blackjack every 20 hands and I had 120 50 cent coins, I played at least 2400 hands on my trip, and most definitely played more hands. Plus I love spending those 50 cent coins since they're rarely seen.
At a notorious sweatshop that offers the best blackjack rules at low limits in Vegas, I acted like an idiot in the first hour, playing and betting like a maniac only when the pit boss was watching my play. And I convinced him I was an idiot. I played there for 6 more hours overnight, and had a nice win. I always moved to empty tables whenever someone joined my table since the place was mostly empty. I ratholed away my wins and kept buying in all night so they thought I was losing. Left in the morning when the sun rose and the ploppies arrived in droves. I returned to that place 2 nights later when the same pit boss was working, and he recognized me and "knew" I was an idiot. At the end of that session he offered me a room comp for my next visit. I don't plan on using that comp because I may get backed off there.
I spread my play at the double decks in Fremont, California, and the single deck at Binions (D10 H17 NDAS $5 min) till they got full late in the morning. I found a nice $15 DD at Treasure Island with H17 DAS DA2 and ~70% pen. I had it heads up for hours and had a $400 swing in the session, ending up with a small profit. I left when the pit boss was watching me play since I felt a little heat.
Evenings are the best time to play poker and consequently the worst time to play blackjack. There were plenty of drunk fish at O'Sheas. I estimate over 50% of the players saw the flop even with bad hands like 10-2 offsuited. My favorite moment was winning someone's entire stack with A-K suited that hit a full house on the flop. Someone else who I observed playing loose all night had A-4 offsuit and was raising me to the river, thinking his 3 aces with a 4 kicker was gold.
Casino Royale has this promotional machine that gives out free $5 match play to anyone (smart enough to stop when they receive the match play offer and not continue on to win the worthless $50 free slot play). They did not observe me hitting that machine 10 times in an hour. The match play yielded a $70 profit. It was even money bets only, so I bet a coupon on almost every game they offered. It sucked that the match play portion of my blackjack bet did not pay 6-5 on blackjack, but only even money, a bigger rip off than 6-5. But having the coupon was like getting better than 2-1 on blackjack and 2-1 on any winning hand.
I tried to keep a majority of my blackjack bets in odd numbers ($5, $21, $25, etc) so I would receive a 50 cent coin with each blackjack. I kept all the 50 cent pieces. Assuming I got a blackjack every 20 hands and I had 120 50 cent coins, I played at least 2400 hands on my trip, and most definitely played more hands. Plus I love spending those 50 cent coins since they're rarely seen.
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