just wondering if they will permit you to buy your chips at the cashier's cage instead of at the tables? still a low roller and even for a 200 dollar buy in I tend to get some strange looks. I started buying in for 100 but when they raise the min to 10 dollars on the weekend that's pretty senseless if you use any type of decent spread, even with wonging.
> just wondering if they will permit you to buy your chips at
> the cashier's cage instead of at the tables?
I have tried it a few times without any luck. The cashiers gave me an attitude and insisted that I buy in at the tables. It is usually not worth waiting in line anyway.
-Sonny-
Ssshh! that's my secret place to get some blackchips before backlining, lol.
Go up to a an empty 6:5 or Mindplay table and buy-in with your entire trip bankroll. Request all black chips (assuming buy-in of $1K or more). Then place $200-$300 in the circle while the dealer starts to shuffle. Look over at the 6:5 sign or the Mindplay hole, pull back your bet and ask the pit boss what the hell is going on. After he gives you the company line, say that this is just cheating on the part of the casino and storm off angrily. Cash out most of the chips at the cashier and come back on another shift to play with the chips that you still have.
This way you get chips without buying in during the session and also get in a good dig against Mindplay / 6:5. Kills two birds with one stone.
...you get chips without buying in during the session...
What is the benefit in not buying chips at the table?
Thanks, at least for a few days... before casinos' memos hung in the pits, lol.
2 heads are better than 1. My old trick was to buy blackchips from the poker cashier window... before backlining at Foxwoods. You just threw me another goodie right into my bag of tricks. I personally prefer yours over mine. Hmmmm, I better start using your trick before our nemeses find out, lol.
Coming soon...
Nemeses' new signs on bj tables:
5% surcharge against the chiptappers' buy ins, i.e., a $50 surcharge for tapping a "pumpkin"
1. DH is right about wonging. Easier to walk up, plop down a bet, and then walk away. Of course you can do this with "money plays" just as easily.
2. Makes it harder for them to track your wins/losses since you never buy in where a pit critter records the amount.
I like the "buy in and walk away" idea for 6:5. Kills 2 birds with one stone. I've done that many times, but only to piss off the pit critters about the 6:5 crap, never thought about using it to also do a buy-in for wonging. Good idea...
Besides the immediate benefit of the pit seeing a "high roller" walk away because of 6:5 / Mindless Play, the hold on your buy-in is exactly 0%. This will lower the hold % for the table which is something that the bigger suits monitor.
I like your way of screwing that pit's hold%. In fact, I will try that tactic to screw up the un-player-friendly pitboss' "hold-report". Perhaps that pitboss can not be promoted into a shiftmanager because of the bad hold%. By the way, I hate a pitboss at Foxwoods because he starts a shift with 100% jump in table minimums. He just wants to show off and impresses his shiftmanager with his hold%. I wish I know your tactic long ago. lol.
guess this wasn't a stupid ? afterall. got more than I expected. really like the idea about the 6/5 table, and I hadn't thought about the difficulty of tracking win/losses, just needed to get IN and OUT without much fuss. (hmmmm, sounds like last friday evening)........ I've been tempted to stick the cut card 5 cards from the end when offered, but this is probably a little bold. we need to find a way to campaign/protest for better penetration.
balk at that cut. I do my best to avoid shoes if there are good SD/DD games around, but when I do play shoes, the dealer almost always admonishes someone at the table that they have to cut at _least_ one deck off the front or back. Never quite understood why unless it has something to do with possibly seeing the bottom card and cutting it to a place where you could reasonably expect to track it to the table...
