Not since early February has Freightman graced the floor of his local or any casino. Buoyed by decent local reports on sanitizing procedures, Freightman tested the local waters by going to stores on different days.

Receiving a 10 year ban for cumulative win, Freightman, with bans reduced for good behaviour, arrived at Casino A. Only 1 familiar dealer was noted with all other pit staff unknown to me. With a desire to shed any ring rust at potential low cost, I played a $5 - $200 (only shoe BJ table open). Playing 1 spot, $10 off the top, reducing to $5 at true -1.5, I spread to max upper ramp bet of 2x$150, and a max lower ramp of 2x$90 and $100. I only had a few minutes of heads up, 0laying most of the 2.5 hours with 1 or 2 other people.

I had 2 - $200 buy ins, when I hit the last hand Of a relatively deep cut shoe, with 2 x $150 on the felt. Holding A7 and 99 v dealer 6, I bought in for an additional $200 doubling hand 1 and splitting hand 2. Dealer cooperated by having the good grace to bust, leaving for the first time, an operating profit. Played another shoe or 2, finishing with an $800 profit.

Not having given my name, having not graced the premise for probably 7-8 years, critter says - Goodnight Freightman, thanks for playing. Hmmm.

Arriving at Casino B, the only local casino never to have booted me (they went to CSM) I learned prior to Covid, that they opened 2 shoe games One with a $10 min, the other $25 min to be opened only by request. Almost every face in the joint was familiar. Despite Lousy dealers and slow play, I played for about 1.25 hours. Regardless, no cards came my way and I lost $500. I was quite annoyed by 2 horrendously bad calls, which I note below for comment.

Numb nuts to my right, buying in for $500 to $1000 every 5 or 10 minutes, was in for several thousand dollars. Douchebag to his right passed his A8, with dealer hitting his spot. Numb nuts to keep his losing streak active, tells Douchebag to hit again and that he would pay the loss. I of course commented behind plexiglass that they can’t do that. Of course, the critter listens to a Numb nuts - what a fuckup. I chewed out the critter later - I’ve known him for years. Anyways, about 15 minutes later (a slow fucking shoe) same dealer, with my max bet out, deals herself the cut card with each player getting their second card. Naturally, I got blackjack. Different critter burns the hand despite protestations. I’m thinking of complaining to Gaming. Anyways, time to leave this shit show.

With virtually any trace of ring rust gone, I graced the premise of Casino C. They booted me some years back on cumulative win. Anyways, I recognized no critters or servers, only a couple of dealers, one of them being at one time , a first rate counter himself.

I played my first $25 min table. Quite uneventful with nothing spectacular., though ended with a $1200 profit.

My wife gave me some good advice - essentially not to beat them up to bad or hit their premises with any great frequency. I plan to follow that advice. Less for the advice, and more because she’s cute - I gave her a bonus referred to as the house vig.

All spots separated by plexiglass, most positions with 2 spots. Depending on table dimension, 3 or 4 play spots per table. Good sanitizing procedures at 2 of the 3 stores.