Automatic Monkey
Banned
This happened to me recently. I was playing a BJ variant (not going to say which one yet) in a store well known for incompetence and the dealer was making a serious mistake. He was dealing two of his up cards before I had to make a play decision! This is almost like Double Exposure but with regular BJ rules. Not quite the full 15% advantage for a full peek at the hole card, but about half that overall (yes, that game.)
So I quickly upped my bet until I had a bunch of black on the layout. Forced myself to remember proper holecard strategy, and had to remember to balance it with ordinary strategy and not make any crazy play like hitting 19 vs. 20 that would make the dealer stop and think. As I've learned the hard way, playing in these sitations can have huge advantage but also huge variance. But this game was deep into MonkeySpace now, and I ended up really raking it in. The PC was just watching too.
After a couple of shoes, the phone rang, and the PC ran over with a look on his face like someone with a severe peanut allergy who just bit into a Fluffernutter. Another PC came over, corrected the dealer, and I thought it would be best to get the hell out of there. Got them for close to $2K. It happened to be the last hand of the shoe when they ran over, and in my panic to leave apparently I picked up the cut card and took it with me, because I found it in my pocket a couple of hours later.
So now I have a cut card. I can practice my cut card mechanics with it at home. Any other tricks I can do with it at the table? They're not going to construe it as a cheating device are they?
So I quickly upped my bet until I had a bunch of black on the layout. Forced myself to remember proper holecard strategy, and had to remember to balance it with ordinary strategy and not make any crazy play like hitting 19 vs. 20 that would make the dealer stop and think. As I've learned the hard way, playing in these sitations can have huge advantage but also huge variance. But this game was deep into MonkeySpace now, and I ended up really raking it in. The PC was just watching too.
After a couple of shoes, the phone rang, and the PC ran over with a look on his face like someone with a severe peanut allergy who just bit into a Fluffernutter. Another PC came over, corrected the dealer, and I thought it would be best to get the hell out of there. Got them for close to $2K. It happened to be the last hand of the shoe when they ran over, and in my panic to leave apparently I picked up the cut card and took it with me, because I found it in my pocket a couple of hours later.
So now I have a cut card. I can practice my cut card mechanics with it at home. Any other tricks I can do with it at the table? They're not going to construe it as a cheating device are they?
