If you are on your first trip to Vegas, or have the POV coupons, you can make the casinos pay for their greediness. At several places, they offer new club signees a 2:1 blackjack coupon (i.e., they pay the first BJ at 2:1). Other coupons pay 3:1 for the first BJ, or give an hour at 2:1 payouts.

Take these coupons and plant yourself at the 6:5 SD game. Spread with abandon, since they don't expect counters at these games. When I was doing this, I even got the dealer to shuffle early if most of the aces came out! I also explained to other players that this was a carnival game that offered terrible odds, and I was only playing because I had the coupon. The pit boss agreed and quietly pointed some ploppies to the better shoe game.

My friend and I cleared a combined 20 units from one place with this strategy. It was the best BJ we played in LV: SD, DA2, DAS, 2:1 BJ. Make 'em pay for offering this terrible game.

Note that most of these coupons are limited to a fairly low dollar amount, so unless you are a red chipper like me, you might not bother.

Cheers,

RC