Originally Posted by
SweatyBurger
Went for my fifth session (-$300) and received my first pseudo-backoff. Definitely learned a valuable lesson, and got a fun story to go along with it:
After playing for about 2 hours on a DD game, an older dealer came in and very deliberately said, "let's make some money TOGETHER!" I didn't think anything of it at the time because it seems like a pretty standard thing to say, but I soon came to realize this was the first of quite a few hints. He gives me great pen and towards the end of the first couple decks, he says "you know you're being a little too obvious, right?" I was caught completely offguard and said something along the lines of "Hey I'm in the hole $3000, I'm out after this round." But he quickly gave me a new deck to cut when the deck ended, and he stuck the cut card WAY in the back. I let greed get the best of me so I said, "alright, one more." We get about halfway through again, the count gets good, and I put out a max bet. He pauses, grabs the discard pile, and says "you know I could break it right here." I completely misinterpreted this as a hint to not bet as much - I said "I can bet a little less," pulled back some money, still determined to ride the good penetration and bounce. Then he repeated himself: "Or I could just break it here." I didn't respond, he paused a little longer, dealt out the rest of the decks (I made back almost all my losses on the session here), and I asked him to color me up. As he was coloring me up, he said "word of advice, try to keep the dealers on your side next time." It finally clicked at that moment, he was gonna let me keep playing and giving me insane pen in exchange for tips. Tipping was never a part of my strategy going in so it didn't even occur to me at the time! Looking back it feels pretty obvious, although I think with that much heat it was probably good I left when I did.
Regardless, a good lesson about keeping the dealers on your side.
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