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I was at Mystic Lake in Minnesota about 12 years ago playing 6-deck, at 2B. Both dealer cards were exposed by accident, and it was an 18. The kid at 3B had a 17 and he waved it off. The rest of us were adults, and we explained to the kid that he would lose for sure if he didn't hit it, and he said, 'But you are not supposed to hit a 17.' We finally talked him into hitting, and he got a 3. The kicker to the story: I was telling a group of people the story a few days later, and a woman said she wouldn't have hit it cuz it would have messed up the card flow. LOL, LOL, LOL.
Around the same time frame I was at Harrah's Prairie Band (Now Prairie Band, the Indians dropped their Harrah's affiliation) north of Topeka, KS. You know how when you have a 3 card hard 11, there is no decision to be made, and a kid had a 3 card hard 11 and the dealer dealt the next card (10, for a 21) without a signal from the kid. In all seriousness, the kid said, 'I didn't ask for a hit.' The dealer, of course, said, 'Would you like me to take it back?'
One time I couldn't talk a woman out of splitting tens. She ended up winning one, and losing the other, and said, 'See, I pushed'. Of course she would have won if she hadn't split.
The Crazy Al stories will have to wait until later.
The online magazine, Poker Pro (also Poker Pro Canada and Poker Pro Europe), featured an excerpt of my book called, “The Superstition Experiment” in its January 2013 issue. In the story, there is a fictional Jamaican woman named Anisha’keekwa taking part in various blackjack experiments. Question - I like to play casino blackjack - mostly Las Vegas, I've been using Hi Opt 1 counting without great success. In Casino Player Magazine Aug. 50 is a system comparison table. It claims that Uston APC, Halves Count, Revere APC, Advanced Omega 11, & Hi Opt II are the most profitable counting systems. Yes, you can count cards playing blackjack online. Although, most online casinos use software that shuffles the cards every time a new hand is dealt, making it a bit tricky. Players who are having success don’t want to get up and relieve themselves in the restroom, and the casino’s furniture is often the victim in these scenarios. One casino worker for the Mohegan Sun even said that the casino had to assemble an environmental services team to handle the chairs and make sure they got deep cleaned.
I was playing BJ a week ago and one gentlemen didn't want hit his soft 15. He waved it off and I really wanted to say 'Are you crazy?' Later that evening 2 kids joined the Table and made some really stupid plays like hitting a hard 17. Of course he lost the whole table sighed and they laughed. If only I could laugh when loosing money...
About eight or nine years ago, at the LV Hilton big tables, my s/o and I sat across from a couple who were tossing a coin to decide whether to bet Player or Banker. Everyone thought it was hilarious, with the dealers and other staff joking about taking action on the coin tosses. The best part was that the couple got on a serious streak, so everyone at that end of the table was betting on the coin tosses by the end of the shoe.
Playing at the LV Hilton about two or three years after that, sat down shortly after the shuffle at seat 5, Chinese gentleman in a suit at 3. I stupidly make a comment about how it's nice that I'll have an open spot next to me, saying the word 'four' out loud as I do so. Chinese gentleman gives me a look that sends chills down my spine. Any time he turns over a four for the rest of the evening, he hisses at me.
At the MGM a year or two later, seeing another Asian gentleman not just ripping up cards, but eating them. At the Hilton on the same trip, seeing an idiot sticking his Baccarat pen through winning cards and throwing it like a missile at the Caller, then requesting the pen back so that he could do it again on the next hand. Over and over again.
I read a news story very recently about somebody getting slapped with a fine for letting an idiot dance on the Baccarat table. NGC regarded the casino as having put the other players at risk.
My buddy likes to double hard 12.
Some of the, to be polite, non-standard plays, I can kind of see what the player might be thinking, but on this one there is no rationale whatever as far as I can tell. Have you recommended your buddy to quit doing this? Several years ago there was a player named Skip, from Oklahoma, who announced to the table in advance that he does this. I asked him why on earth would he do that, and his reply was that there was only one card that could hurt you. I explained to him that the whole concept of the game was based on the fact that there were 4 times as many of those as any other card, and he went, 'Gee, I didn't think of that.'
The dealer (who had just been promoted to supervisor) told a player that his favorite hand to double. The reason: There was only a 9 value card made the hand worse. I explained that, on a DOUBLE DOWN, a 10,J,Q,K,A,2,and 9 all meant the same thing; you needed the dealer to bust. He said, 'If you get an A, you have fourteen, that's better than 13.' Again, I explained on a double it didn't mean anything, since you couldn't pull another card, so a 14 at that point was the same as a 12. He got REALLY belligerent with me, getting other players involved to defend his awful logic.
I colored up my chips and left. While I don't play at that casino much now, if I saw him supervise or deal in the pit, I would move to another pit if I could.
I hunted around for it but didn't find it.
There was a story posted here some time ago. The gist was that a high roller made a rude remark to a $10 player, then behaved rudely throughout the game. At the last the high-roller asked to ride the $10 player's bet, whereupon the latter busted on purpose thus loosing the boor thousands.
I hunted around for it but didn't find it.
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It's here:
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In my own thread no less.
Thanks for finding it.