I've been playing a a local Indian casino with a good 6D game (h17, LS, DAS, RSA) where most dealers cut off 1-1.5 decks of the shoe so you're getting at least 75% pen, sometimes 80%. Once in a while a dealer will cut off more than 1.5 decks and I find another table.

I play the nickel tables mostly, and as far as I can tell, this casino is not at all concerned with counters. I blatantly back-count and aggressively wong, move my bet directly with my advantage, etc. and no one seems to care.

Last night I back-counted a shoe until there were only 3 rounds to go. I jumped in over the objections of a superstitious ploppy, played table minimum for a hand, won, jumped directly to my high bet (only 3X table minimum) for the next two hands, winning 10 units on 3 rounds before the cut card came out.

When the dealer placed the cut card in the next shoe, he cut off a full 2 decks! Terrible pen for this casino. I wasted no time in leaving the table to find a better game.

I don't know if this was heat directly from a dealer, if he always gives poor pen, or if he was just seeing whether it would make me leave the table.

Normally I don't think dealers care much about APs, but it occurred to me this dealer was likely a member of the tribe who owns the casino - perhaps trying to preserve some of the casino's revenue?

Questions for you:

1) Anyone find that, at Indian casinos, tribe member employees are less friendly to counters than non-tribe members?
2) What should I have done in this situation? Played through the next shoe just to make it look good? Left the casino? Not read so much into it?