Was yesterday "Bring a ploppy to the casino" day?

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21forme

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Just got back from AC. I have never seen more BAD players than I saw yesterday. Splitting 6's against a dealer 10, hitting 14 against a dealer 6, etc. It was unbelievable!

The funniest one:
I'm at a table playing with 2 others. One guy doing the stupidest things imaginable. The other guy (Asian) going nuts about it, ranting and raving about bad players. Count is going negative, Asian guy announces "I can't play any more until this guy leaves." I used the opportunity to say "me neither." After about 3 more hands the guy leaves as the count starts looking a bit better. Both of us sit back down. Mr. Proper Play has A2. Dealer has a 2 showing. What does he do? He doubles! Good thing I didn't have an beverage in my mouth at the time :laugh:
 
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BlackChipBlackJack

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last time i was at the casino , this one hand the dealer had a 8 up, i had 12 and the chinese guy to my right had 16. so the guy to my right says hit me, he gets an A for 17, what does he say? 1 MORE CARD! he hits a 7 and busts, the 7 that woulda gave me 19, instead i hit the 10 that woulda busted the dealer (dealer had 4 or 5 under) instead dealer made a hand. we heckled the guy til he left.... cost me 30 bucks that hand....

i was backcounting at another table and this one guy doubled a 13 against a 6 and busted lol
 
EasyRhino

EasyRhino

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Remember, the donk to the right or left of you is just as likely to help you as hurt you. You can act aggravated if it will let you modify your play in a profitable way, but inside, stay Zen Master about it.

Dealer told me recently about a player that was doubling all his hard 14s. He was even winning while doing it.
 
Doofus

Doofus

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EasyRhino said:
Remember, the donk to the right or left of you is just as likely to help you as hurt you. You can act aggravated if it will let you modify your play in a profitable way, but inside, stay Zen Master about it.
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This is true - the only downside to it, and it's a real downside, is that paying attention to the stupidity of others can take you off your own game.
 
ihate17

ihate17

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Whose the ploppy?

BlackChipBlackJack said:
last time i was at the casino , this one hand the dealer had a 8 up, i had 12 and the chinese guy to my right had 16. so the guy to my right says hit me, he gets an A for 17, what does he say? 1 MORE CARD! he hits a 7 and busts, the 7 that woulda gave me 19, instead i hit the 10 that woulda busted the dealer (dealer had 4 or 5 under) instead dealer made a hand. we heckled the guy til he left.... cost me 30 bucks that hand....

i was backcounting at another table and this one guy doubled a 13 against a 6 and busted lol
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BlackChip

Would you be posting here if that 10 you hit would have been the first card and the seven the guy took the second? Then the guy with 17 gets the 10 instead of you and you land up with the 7. The chance of that happening was exactly the same as what actually happened. Not understanding this makes you just as much a ploppy as him in my opinion. Perhaps moreso, since you are complaining and in certain counts there are indices for hitting a hard 17.

ihate17
 
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BlackChipBlackJack

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ihate17 said:
BlackChip

Would you be posting here if that 10 you hit would have been the first card and the seven the guy took the second? Then the guy with 17 gets the 10 instead of you and you land up with the 7. The chance of that happening was exactly the same as what actually happened. Not understanding this makes you just as much a ploppy as him in my opinion. Perhaps moreso, since you are complaining and in certain counts there are indices for hitting a hard 17.

ihate17
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the count was positive and thats why i had a bigger bet out. and i do understand what youre saying, i was just addin somethin. the guy hit a hard 16 and was lucky to catch an ace, and decided he wanted another card
 
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Preston

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BlackChipBlackJack said:
last time i was at the casino , this one hand the dealer had a 8 up, i had 12 and the chinese guy to my right had 16. so the guy to my right says hit me, he gets an A for 17, what does he say? 1 MORE CARD! he hits a 7 and busts, the 7 that woulda gave me 19, instead i hit the 10 that woulda busted the dealer (dealer had 4 or 5 under) instead dealer made a hand. we heckled the guy til he left.... cost me 30 bucks that hand....
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Actually I'm guessing it cost you $60 since had he not down that you would have kept your $30 bet and would have won another $30.

Other players at the table DO NOT AFFECT YOUR GAME. Yeah, sometimes their stupid stuff messes up a hand or two, but on the flipside I'm sure there are other 'bonehead' plays that have ended up in your favor.

I really hate people who like to quarterback hands after they're over.

In fact, I almost got into a fist fight a couple weeks ago at a double deck pitch game.

Count was -12 toward the end of the 'shoe' and I got dealt K2 (12) against a dealer 4. This is an easy index to hit. So I do and I pull an 8. Ploppy to my right (betting two hands at $200 a piece, I was betting green) starts going off how "the dealer's got 14 and that 8 would've bust him) I said 'dealer probably doesn't have a 10 in the hole)

But the dealer did.. has 14..draws a 7 to take us both out. He starts bitching at me and I said "WTF are you bitching about? I just lost with 20."
This was the start of him telling me how to play my hands and stuff, to which I ignored him.

A funny thing was though, he was betting black and he finally has the nerve to say "as soon as you play the stakes I do you can play the way you want to"

The count at this point was +30

So I said "oh yeah? and I pushed a purple into the circle."

I got dealt a blackjack and it really set him off.

For the rest of my session (about another 45 min or so) he kept doing weird plays to "put the cards back in the order they should be" since he thought I messed them up. He'd split 99 against a 10 and stuff like that. He (obviously) kept losing and I kept winning since I played MY hands and not HIS hands.

I ended up having a sizeable win and I thanked HIM for the money at the end of my session.
 
Doofus

Doofus

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Preston said:
Actually I'm guessing it cost you $60 since had he not down that you would have kept your $30 bet and would have won another $30.

Other players at the table DO NOT AFFECT YOUR GAME. Yeah, sometimes their stupid stuff messes up a hand or two, but on the flipside I'm sure there are other 'bonehead' plays that have ended up in your favor.

I really hate people who like to quarterback hands after they're over.

In fact, I almost got into a fist fight a couple weeks ago at a double deck pitch game.

Count was -12 toward the end of the 'shoe' and I got dealt K2 (12) against a dealer 4. This is an easy index to hit. So I do and I pull an 8. Ploppy to my right (betting two hands at $200 a piece, I was betting green) starts going off how "the dealer's got 14 and that 8 would've bust him) I said 'dealer probably doesn't have a 10 in the hole)

But the dealer did.. has 14..draws a 7 to take us both out. He starts bitching at me and I said "WTF are you bitching about? I just lost with 20."
This was the start of him telling me how to play my hands and stuff, to which I ignored him.

A funny thing was though, he was betting black and he finally has the nerve to say "as soon as you play the stakes I do you can play the way you want to"

The count at this point was +30

So I said "oh yeah? and I pushed a purple into the circle."

I got dealt a blackjack and it really set him off.

For the rest of my session (about another 45 min or so) he kept doing weird plays to "put the cards back in the order they should be" since he thought I messed them up. He'd split 99 against a 10 and stuff like that. He (obviously) kept losing and I kept winning since I played MY hands and not HIS hands.

I ended up having a sizeable win and I thanked HIM for the money at the end of my session.
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GREAT story! :cool2:
 
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Kasi

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BlackChipBlackJack said:
the guy hit a hard 16 and was lucky to catch an ace, and decided he wanted another card
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Reminded me of the guy who had a 17, couldn't decide to hit or not for at least a minute and a half. Everyone told him he had a 17 and not to hit it. Finally he waived off another card.

The guy next to him got the next card, a 3, and he said "I knew I should have hit" and promptly left the table in a rage :)
 
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