Backoffs and Hints

Some of the lines I've heard:

"So, where did you learn how to play blackjack?"
"I noticed when you get a blackjack you usually have a big bet out."
"Do you play any other games?"
"Would you like a cocktail, or do you need to concentrate?"
"The camera saw something,"

Heard any new ones lately?

1. Bryce C. BJ for Blood

2. That's called selective memory. I am only slightly more likely to get a BJ with a big bet out

3. Yeah, if i can get a minimum of 1.5% advantage

4. I will take a cocktail, and no i don't need to concentrate as i can probably do your job while counting down two six deckers and flirting with your scanky wife.

5. What did the camera see, Sherlock ?

"You think I don't know what you're doing."

"We're going to cut the shoe in half wherever you sit."

"This is the last shoe, then we're closing the table."

"If you spread your bets 20-1 again, we're going to ask you not to play."

"You look really hungry, how about a comp to the coffee shop?"

You want a comp? I think you should buy us lunch.

heck, i can't even get booted from the Barbary.

Usually 2 security guards grab me and throw me out the door head first.

Some years ago, I was told : "The way you play Blackjack, it's no longer a game of chance!" Some months later they introduced CSMs in Austria and I was admitted again.

Francis Salmon

After taking insurance with a max. bet out, "What are you trying to do, ward off evil spirits?"

I look like Clint Eastwood and they are so jelous of my good looks they can't keep their eyes off of me.

--Mayor

happened after playing an 8-deck A.C. shoe game which I had wonged on to just as everyone else at the table was bailing out.

" good job "--I know what you're up to.

" wink wink "--see if you can fool us again.

In a way, it's the subtle back-off which ends up being the most effective IMO, and the most skilled bosses understand the psychology of throwing the BJ role-player off his game in this regard.

The game is as much about fooling the pit as it is about getting the money, because if you fail to do the former you will not succeed at the latter. And make no mistake about it--you are a WANTED man.

If a boss can get into your head immediately--it's curtain call time, before even Act 1 has had a chance to lull the audience into relaxed submission.

And the " best " boss is like an appraised critic at a play who, with mere knitted brow, and down set chin, is enough to send chills up the spine of Sir Lawrence Olivier.

"Don't look at me - you're the one with the +6 count."

"Tsk, tsk - What would Lawrence Revere say?"

"Does the term, "flat-bet" mean anything to you?"

I have read your reports lately and find them quite amusing. It's obvious to me that your unskilled in BJ. Please tell me it aint true.