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    YaleMoto
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    YaleMoto: When BJ becomes craps

    One of the downsides of playng blackjack for a living is that you don't have much of a private work space. If your a lawyer, for example, you might have an office, desk, and personal photos where you work. But not when your in the BJ profession.

    I pocket chips when I play and periodically check my chip count. To maintain privacy, I enter the casino restroom to do my chip count. My work bench is typically the toilet cover container top lip where I stack my chips in rows of color. But ever once in a while a chip will fall off the toilet cover container and fall into the toilet - that's when BJ becomes craps.

    Where do you guys count your chips?

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    suicyco maniac
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    suicyco maniac: done that

    > But ever once in a
    > while a chip will fall off the toilet cover container
    > and fall into the toilet

    I had this happen once. It was a black chip. I decided just to let it go. Ever since then I have been extra careful.

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    AutomaticMonkey
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    AutomaticMonkey: You flushed a black???

    No way man I put up with too much crap already to win that black chip! Hell I'd go in for a green.

    But you are right, the toilet stall is the only safe place to handle cheques like that. Most places I've played have a flat top toilet paper dispenser that I can stack them up on. But make sure no one outside the stall sees what you are doing, or they can bang the wall from the other side hard enough to knock the cheques to the floor, pick up what they can and run.

    > I had this happen once. It was a black chip. I decided
    > just to let it go. Ever since then I have been extra
    > careful.

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    Trapper
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    Trapper: More Bacteria In Fast Food Ice Than Toilet Water


    At least according to this survey. Would you go after your black chip if it fell into your Big Gulp.



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    Francis Salmon
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    Francis Salmon: Where is the problem?

    > Where do you guys count your chips?

    During the shuffle, whenever I have too many chips lying in front of me,I count them in order to colour up and put the higher denomination chips either in my waistcoat or my jacket inside pocket.When I want to know where I stand,I check very discretly by feeling with my fingers.No need for an office.

    Francis Salmon

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    Samoht
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    Samoht: Chip story that arises from a casino toilet

    Speaking of toilet, I can not resist to tell you guys my story.

    I was 100 bucks richer before I relieved my urinary bladder. It was a freaky day for me. I was somewhat absent minded. I ran into a lady room by mistake. As I walked in, an old lady walked out. I thought she came to the wrong john. Then I mentally noted that there were no urinals. I still did not realize that I was in the wrong place. I ran into a stall, kicked up the toilet seat cover. Holy cow! there was a black chip jammed underneath & in between the cover & the toilet. The rest is history. I kid you guys not.

    > One of the downsides of playng blackjack for a living
    > is that you don't have much of a private work space.
    > If your a lawyer, for example, you might have an
    > office, desk, and personal photos where you work. But
    > not when your in the BJ profession.

    > I pocket chips when I play and periodically check my
    > chip count. To maintain privacy, I enter the casino
    > restroom to do my chip count. My work bench is
    > typically the toilet cover container top lip where I
    > stack my chips in rows of color. But ever once in a
    > while a chip will fall off the toilet cover container
    > and fall into the toilet - that's when BJ becomes
    > craps.

    > Where do you guys count your chips?

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    suicyco maniac
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    suicyco maniac: Re: You flushed a black???

    > No way man I put up with too much crap already to win
    > that black chip!

    Actually no. I couldn't bring myself to flush it so I left it in there for the next lucky ploppy.

    >Hell I'd go in for a green.

    F that!!! Theres no way in hell I'm going in for a green. Black was boderline. Purple I'm in!

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    Sonny
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    Sonny: Fishing for EV

    > F that!!! Theres no way in hell I'm going in for a
    > green. Black was boderline. Purple I'm in!

    Hell, I'd jump in there for a buffet comp! =)

    I will have to update my casino scouting procedure to include the restrooms. There may be higher EV in the stalls than at the tables!

    -Sonny-

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    Bettie
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    Bettie: I can just see that

    > I will have to update my casino scouting procedure to
    > include the restrooms. There may be higher EV in the
    > stalls than at the tables!

    I think this is the casino equivalent of checking the pay phones for quarters at the mall!

    Bettie

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    Samoht
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    Samoht: EV at pay phones of casinos

    > I think this is the casino equivalent of checking the
    > pay phones for quarters at the mall!

    > Bettie

    Speaking of coins from pay phones, I get another story for you guys. There's a devilish smart guy who makes a living at casinos by all kinds of tricks. One of his tricks is to stuff toilet tissues in the canal above the coin-return-box. All returned coins are stucked above the box in the canal. Only he knows the trick to collect the coins, get it?

    If you don't understand what he's doing, then just think of this: It's like a lobsterman who sets traps around his operation area, then later on, he will collect his catches. BTW, another one of his tricks is to collect coins at slots left by senile senior citizens.

    Hey, I'm sure he will seek out the lost chips in the stall if he reads this board, lol.

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    Bettie
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    Bettie: Nowadays

    > BTW, another one of his tricks is
    > to collect coins at slots left by senile senior
    > citizens.

    They collect all of the discarded 2- and 3-cent tickets that are laying around to make money! I can't bring myself to take those, of course (not even the ones left on the rim of trash cans that are so obviously not wanted), but my best find was a wadded up bill in a casino hallway (off the main casino floor). There was no one around it could have belonged to, so I shoved it in my pocket. When I finally looked at it, it was a $20, so not bad. I also once spotted a very dark chip under a closed table at Mirage, and when I grabbed it, I discovered it was one of their dark blue $1 chips, and not the $100 chip I had hoped for.

    Bettie
    (not ashamed to dumpster dive for the right price)

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    Samhot
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    Samhot: A $3,000 pickup in a white envelope

    > but my best find was a wadded
    > up bill in a casino hallway (off the main casino
    > floor). There was no one around it could have belonged
    > to, so I shoved it in my pocket. When I finally looked
    > at it, it was a $20, so not bad. I also once spotted a
    > very dark chip under a closed table at Mirage, and
    > when I grabbed it, I discovered it was one of their
    > dark blue $1 chips, and not the $100 chip I had hoped
    > for.

    > Bettie
    > (not ashamed to dumpster dive for the right price)

    Speaking of money on the floor, I get another story.

    This finder of money must be a Saint. From underneath her chair, an Asian lady at the anchor seat found a white envelope with $3,000 in it. She peeked in it, held up the envelope and asked who dropped it. The dealer said that envelope belonged to the previous high roller who just left the anchor seat a moment ago. The dealer explained that she saw him previously open that envelope & bought in $2,000 in chips. She called over the suit who took the envelope to the pitboss for safekeeping. Hey, it's nice to see a Saint once a while in a casino.

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