Boomerang of an anti-counter tactic
You might have forgot reason #102
102. shufflemaster at every table?
or
103. 3 decks dealt out of 8?
SOTSOG, You're right. I could not remember to mention #103 a few nights ago. Because of your mentioning of #103, now I remember a similar anti-counter tactic used by Tropicana & like to tell you the story.
An anti-counter tactic had backfired in Tropicana's face. So you think 3 decks dealt out of 8 was bad? Consider how bad 1 round dealt of 8 would be (tongue-in-cheek)! Whenever "Counters Roger & Jane (CRJ)" played in the house, Tropicana would deal one round from a shoe of 8 and shuffled against CRJ. The above situation was not interesting & shocking except for the following:
1) CRJ betted $5 for the dealer every round to keep her happy. (It's true pain in the butt for the dealer to shuffle by hand every round.)
2) "Jane" was the one who always sat low during shuffling & did the inserting of the yellow card very slowly & precisely. (It appears that she knows where the "good cards" are located.)
3) CRJ were permitted to play multiple hands. (Tropicana ususally restricts 1 hand per counter, but it's not in this case because Trop doesn't think a counter can beat the game with 1-round-then-shuffle-tactic. Oh boy, how wrong it was.)
4) CRJ filled the 6 betting squares with a yellow chip each, totalling $6,000 a round.
5) CRJ had been winning for months before Tropicana refused to take CRJ's actions. Trop just told CRJ that they could not play BJ in Tropicana any more. (A question to CCC: unless CRJ are on the Exclusion List, what gives AC Tropicana the right to bar CRJ to play BJ in its house?)
I hope the above story will encourage readers to find a way to beat casinos' anti-counter tactics. See you guys in Borgata.
