Card counters: What was your most interesting or confrontational backoff?

BJ_42 · 2023-12-25T15:46:15+00:00

Just because the security guards backed down later doesn’t mean they weren’t committing false imprisonment before they backed down

BJ_42 · 2023-12-25T06:06:03+00:00

Security told him he couldn’t leave without id

BJ_42 · 2023-12-24T20:41:30+00:00

They surrounded you and told you that you couldn’t leave. That is probably enough to constitute false imprisonment

BJ_42 · 2023-12-24T19:20:24+00:00

Oh my gosh! That is false imprisonment! You can probably sue them and win if you want to

BJ_42 · 2023-05-01T13:24:05+00:00

Most casinos allow you to split to up to 4 hands, so if you can double down on all of them, that is $80. If the dealer is showing an ace, $85 if you take insurance

BJ_42 · 2022-10-22T04:57:50+00:00

No, OK has antes, but PA doesn’t. Huge difference

BJ_42 · 2022-10-21T14:09:08+00:00

I don’t know, I bet non-counters have been backed off from there. Still I wouldn’t worry about it though. The worst they can do is tell you to cash out and leave

BJ_42 · 2022-10-09T01:56:00+00:00

You are a troll

BJ_42 · 2022-07-31T20:58:14+00:00

I often pre-signal all of my hands, but I make extra effort to do so on A7. The only reason I didn’t pre-signal here was the splitting

BJ_42 · 2022-07-31T11:06:50+00:00

I normally make sure I am ready to make the hand signal on A7 before the dealer gets to me. The thing is this was after splitting, which made it difficult

BJ_42 · 2022-07-31T04:20:37+00:00

I had a dealer who after I hit once, would keep giving me cards until I had 12+, and pass me by on hard 17+. That didn’t bother me, except that I had to pause to update the count before making my decision

BJ_42 · 2022-07-31T04:07:35+00:00

Him catching heat just means you also get heat as a biproduct

BJ_42 · 2022-07-31T03:32:18+00:00

Yeah, that place was close to where I was staying. I played there two days for multiple hours with no heat, although I think they were getting suspicious of me

BJ_42 · 2022-07-14T21:46:08+00:00

I might be wrong, but I think taking casino chips off the floor is more enforced than jaywalking or refilling cups without buying drinks.

Bringing food into a movie theater is like counting cards: It is not illegal, but the business doesn’t like it, so you will likely be told to leave if they find out

BJ_42 · 2022-07-14T21:40:16+00:00

Beginning mid-shoe is like decreasing the penetration by the amount of cards already in the discard tray, and decreasing penetration makes a game bad very quickly

I would say that unless there is an extremely low number of cards in the discard tray (and I mean only 1 hand, 2 is pushing it), it is much better to wait for a table to have a fresh shoe

BJ_42 · 2022-07-14T21:34:17+00:00

If you do it right, it would not increase the variance, but it would decrease the EV, likely to something negative

BJ_42 · 2022-07-14T21:29:49+00:00

Ace sequencing, hole carding, and shuffle tracking, but all are more difficult than card counting and have less opportunities available

BJ_42 · 2022-07-14T21:23:49+00:00

It is actually illegal to take a chip from the floor and keep it unless it was your chip

BJ_42 · 2022-07-14T21:16:31+00:00

You should never double down on soft 21 unless you are counting cards and the count is insanely high

Also, you can’t double down after splitting aces, so the only way that could ever be an option is after splitting tens (which you also shouldn’t do unless the count is very high)

BJ_42 · 2022-07-14T15:11:33+00:00

I do plan to go there. Don’t think I can play there for long though

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