A girlfriend and I went to our local Indian Casino the other day. At this place I generally come out at $50 at the beginning of a shoe, go down to $25 if I am playing a negative and up my bet to as high as $250 if things are going well.
One thing that may never happen to the male members here is whenever I deviate from basic strategy because of the count, I get helpful suggestions from a ploppy or two. Helpful guys who want to teach this young lady the ins and outs of the game. These guys might actually be creating pretty good cover because the pit types hear a few comments when I deviate but perhaps if they ran a counter program on me it would be different. This time it was the guy to my right as I was at third base. I am up a bunch, he is loosing, the count is high and on my $200 bet I get a 16, the dealer a K. Since there is no surrender, I stick and he tells me that if I am going to bet that much I should read a book. I say I am scared of busting and the dealer turns a four, then a two (I know he wanted to say something about my getting 18 but there was no time) and then she pulled a seven. He shakes his head and I tell him about female intuition especially since the dealer would have hit 21 had I hit.
Later in bad shoe, TC-4, I have 9 against dealer 4 and just hit instead of doubling. He shakes his head as I get a 2 and then a 7, so I explain to him about Zen Blackjack and that you must become one with the shoe. It is never the flow, always the shoe.
Of course not every non BS move I made worked so he had his moments but after staying on another 16 and a 15 (lost one of them) he finally left the table and had the nerve to tell me that I was ruining the "flow of the cards" for everyone else. I know he lost and felt bad about that but I was up about 4,000 and just had to tell him that I was not playing for everyone else. In the real world I am an engineer so I believe in the math not the flow, but I like the image of being at one with the shoe.
One thing that may never happen to the male members here is whenever I deviate from basic strategy because of the count, I get helpful suggestions from a ploppy or two. Helpful guys who want to teach this young lady the ins and outs of the game. These guys might actually be creating pretty good cover because the pit types hear a few comments when I deviate but perhaps if they ran a counter program on me it would be different. This time it was the guy to my right as I was at third base. I am up a bunch, he is loosing, the count is high and on my $200 bet I get a 16, the dealer a K. Since there is no surrender, I stick and he tells me that if I am going to bet that much I should read a book. I say I am scared of busting and the dealer turns a four, then a two (I know he wanted to say something about my getting 18 but there was no time) and then she pulled a seven. He shakes his head and I tell him about female intuition especially since the dealer would have hit 21 had I hit.
Later in bad shoe, TC-4, I have 9 against dealer 4 and just hit instead of doubling. He shakes his head as I get a 2 and then a 7, so I explain to him about Zen Blackjack and that you must become one with the shoe. It is never the flow, always the shoe.
Of course not every non BS move I made worked so he had his moments but after staying on another 16 and a 15 (lost one of them) he finally left the table and had the nerve to tell me that I was ruining the "flow of the cards" for everyone else. I know he lost and felt bad about that but I was up about 4,000 and just had to tell him that I was not playing for everyone else. In the real world I am an engineer so I believe in the math not the flow, but I like the image of being at one with the shoe.
