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redtop43
Another weird experience at Rampart. I played for about 2 1/2 hours, one person I know played, and I really don't have any "regular" dealers. Toward the end a clearly clueless woman sits down with her husband in tow; she's in seat 2 or 3 and I'm third base. She draws an A7 against a dealer T (might have been a 9) and she doesn't know what to do and the dealer suggests she stand. Now, when I started dealing I asked one of the floors "Is it OK to give advice" and he said "As long as it's accurate." Anyway, I took immediate exception and said loudly "No, the correct book play is to hit soft 18 against a ten." The dealer tells me that I'm wrong and I get really cheeky and offer to bet him a grand (of course he can't take it but obviously the offer was in good faith). So a few minutes later the same woman splits a pair of Aces. Rampart has different rules at the 6-deck table; surrender and resplitting Aces are allowed. The dealer deals her hits face down and again I object. I think I had said that I was a dealer in Pennsylvania, so when I say "She needs to see her cards to see if she should resplit" he says something to me (softly) like "Sir, this is Las Vegas" as though to imply that maybe in Pennsylvania they allow resplitting aces but not in Vegas. (The joint I worked at only even allowed resplits to 3 hands.) Anyway, I know I'm on firm ground, so I call the floor, and explain it to him, and he educates the dealer about different rules at different tables and somehow it's mentioned that he's new.
A few minutes later as the floor is walking by I tap him on the wrist (I'm on third base, remember) and say "I'm really not trying to be a pain in the ass."
I'm not saying these people at Rampart are evil or anything. Good help is very hard to find these days in Vegas.
Acting smart is not actually a smart move.People skill is very important for success in life . Anyone can count cards , but to win a decent amount of money is very difficult these days .
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