The Hit and Run!

[blackchipjim]

I would like to give some unsolicited advice to the new up and coming aps. Please do not camp out and play like you are not doing anything unusual and are doing it unoticed. Over this weekend I encountered a few youngsters that were so blantant about what you were doing the pb were joking about you. I heard the two taking about sweating you bad but laughing at you was more entertaining. If you are practicing your game great but don't try to act like your playing at a poker game with your homies, cuz u ain't. You are young and you fit the profile especially your ball cap which you have turned backwards most of the time except when you play bj. Keep your sessions short and try to blend in not out.

 

[Midwestern]

Over this weekend I encountered a few youngsters that were so blatant about what you were doing the pb were joking about you.

Jim -
if you saw me this weekend you shoulda said hi! :grin: just kidding.

Just curious though, id like to know how "blatant" exactly they were, and what they were doing that tipped you off so strongly.

Low-brim hat? Very quiet? Staring at the cards? Parked at a table for hours?
Starting off shoes with min bet after ending shoe with max bet? Talking about the count?

I really would like to know how obvious is obvious beacuse i think there are things that a counter picks up on (because he's actively trying NOT to do it), and then there are things that a PB picks up on because the wannabe-counter is so freaking bad.

Reason i ask is because I play at a casino that's close to a big college and there are plenty of kids who think they are card counters because they've seen the movie 21. for the most part, they're terrible counters and the PB's let them play along.

 

[blackchipjim]

Fine points

I would say if you are gonna where a b-ball cap always wear it the same direction the whole time you are in the joint. If your eyesight is that poor that you can see card values without ping ponging your head sit at one side of the table or the other not in the middle. It doesn't matter really at the lower limit tables but don't jump up and down with the count exactly as it happens give yourself some sort of leeway between counts. The last thing you want to do is move your lips while you count you look like you have a mental disorder. Don't set up camp at a table with your buddies in fact drop your buddies off somewhere else because they draw attention to your play.

 

[alwayssplitaces]

The exception to that is if your buddy is a whale and he threatens to leave if you're backed off.