when it's heat, & when it's not

[illustrious bakedbean]

during a few recent sessions, the pit bosses have been staring at my table rather consistently, before i have done anything that could give me away.

other times, i've been at chatty tables and the pit bosses have decided to join the conversation, sticking around for lengthy periods of time.

still other times, i've been at the only open table, and the pit boss naturally keeps an eye on the table.

so my question: is all scrutiny actually heat? my sense is "definitely not."

so the next question: WHEN is it heat, and how can you tell?

what sort of pb activity makes you guys nervous, and what do you write off as natural?

and lastly, is it an iron-clad no-no to spread (say 1-4 or 1-5 on sd) when a pb is paying attention, but you're pretty sure he's not suspicious?

 

[learning to count]

Heat: When the casino is suspicious of why you are kicking their arses.

If you bet big and win consistantly the casino will notice. Beyond Counting by Grossjean is what you should read about heat. The one thing that brings on heat is black chips filling your pockets or if the casino knows you are a counter. If you are a red chipper then I would not worry. Green chipper and building stacks of over 150 will get noticed. Real heat will be there when you hit the 100 to 10,000 min/max table. Heat comes when you win, raise bets and win, stay too long at a table while winning, midshoe entry and winning, splitting tens and winning, just plain winning will get you heat whether you are counting or not! Face it the Casinos are there to take your money. They dont even want to allow real "gambling". They just want to take your money while they masterbate your ego.

If you are playing and the critters start to watch your play stay calm. If you are getting attention because of any of the above its heat. Other wise the critter is bored and is just watching. what you may interpret as heat may be nothing. I onced stashed 400 plus in green in my pocket. The critter saw that my mountain had left the building and was visibly upset. He kept asking "did he lose it, what happened to the chips, whats this guy up to"? I was scared I though he thought that I was counting. Later I found out that the count was comming up and he was light on green and black chips. I colored them up so he would be healthy in green. Who knows what lerks in the minds of pit critters any way. Life goes on. Keep on counting and dont fret the small stuff.

 

[Running Count]

LTC wrote:

> [the casinos] just want to take your money while they masterbate your ego...

If the casinos do it to players, shouldn't this be "give your ego a handjob"? Of course the PCs could, and do, masterbate their OWN egos.

Just a stickler for proper use of sexual terms,

RC

 

[wong out]

Heat is when the 4 suits watching your action follow you to the next table. Or when the phone rings in the pit as you approach it or when you are being read the tresspass act. Anything less is just the "onset of heat" and to be ignored...