This is funOriginally Posted by moses
Put the gun down Chester. Slowly step away from the table.
Unless you are playing high limit. Most Blackjack games in Pennsylvania are eight deck shoe games. The SCORE for an eight deck shoe is lower compare to six deck game. There are good six deck shoe games in low limit but not a lot.
8 deck games can give great opportunities if you can play uncrowded. Imagine almost 2 decks more advantage bets at each opportunity. You spend about the same time assessing that a shoe is not worth continued play but a little more getting to big edges. The heat will be a little less. After all what AP would play an 8 deck game when a 6 deck game is right next to it? They figure an incompetent AP would. I have a little saying, If it is something no AP would do you should probably figure how to do it at an additional advantage or little cost. You don't want to fit the stereotype of an AP. That is half the battle. That is the most important thing about sliding under the radar. Before they have anything else they have the AP stereotype to consider. They may think you are not an AP or just an inept AP if you don't fit the stereotype of what all AP's do. Just understand why AP's all do something and figure out how to do it with little to no cost or maybe even with an additional advantage. Eventually they either decide you are incompetent or a threat worthy of a back off. Almost everywhere eventually you win enough to be the latter but the longer you can have them consider you the former the better off you are.
I'm just so jealous of you guys in the US. Being able to Wong, table hop, take comps, promotions and so on. Please shed a tear for us poor souls in the UK with about 8% of shops offering shoe dealt games and most of them having only one to three tables. It makes me cry.....
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There was a guest on GWAE last year who had a great story about playing with a huge spread at El Cortez. He and his partner went in and first played some craps. The negative EV on the craps wasn't much, but he laid down some good cover, being loud and "drunk". He pounded a few drinks in front of the PB and after a little while at the craps table said "Saaaay, do you guys have any blackjack?" He explained that he and his partner had practiced playing while drinking and were confident they could play without errors. So when they went to play BJ they were able to spread huge and they win big, and when they left the pit was begging them to stay.
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I used to know a large black cat who would probably vote Michigan? One of the Dakota's?? Somewhere in the great white North.... members feel free to correct
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