Dealer Number 2065

How many APs have lost money to the above dealer? He gives the best pen, yet there's hardly anyone who can make money from him. There's something unexplainable about him. For example, there are over 80 bj tables busy with customers on a Saturday night, yet frequently he gets zero player...nada, none. He gets EMPTY TABLE all by himself; no, it's not a $100 table, but $25! Most gamblers are headstrong in that casino, but that magician-dealer will make the headstrong gamblers humble. Go figure.

what you say harbors bad resentment with my experiences when they abruptly change dealers only to lose every single hand unless you toke. I usually quit after 15 hands, depending on my session roll.

That implies that the dealers are cheating and you must tip to win. Is that correct?

Frenchman

Dave wrote: "i don't agree with your reasoning, but

what you say harbors bad resentment with my experiences when they abruptly change dealers only to lose every single hand unless you toke. I usually quit after 15 hands, depending on my session roll.

French wrote: ""lose every single hand unless you toke"?

That implies that the dealers are cheating and you must tip to win. Is that correct?""

I don't think the dealers are cheating, but they may bend their house rules just a little bit. It has to do with how a dealer shuffle. A toked dealer may give a winning shuffle in favor of players, i.e., a nonrandom-shuffle. According to a bj guru, players can win at a rate of 28% against the casino if the fresh decks are not shuffled (especially a handsome win rate of 67% to a firstbaser!). Although we will never find some nonshuffled fresh decks of cards, but it follows that nonrandom shuffles are in favor of players, especially the firstbaser. A winning tip: Look for a tired dealer who has worked 2 shifts back to back in 2 casinos. The dealer is so tired & absent minded that he sometimes takes the cards from the tray right into the shoe without shuffling!

All this talk of non-random, �player favorable� and �winning shuffles� sounds a bit like the old Jerry Patterson gimmick. I�ll give you guys the benefit of the doubt, but perhaps you need a new plan for dealing with these situations. If you guys want to keep tipping every dealer that beats you and pray for player-biased shuffles then by all means don�t let me stop you. But if it were me then I would learn to track those shuffles so that I could recognize any dealers that �bend the rules.� That would also allow me to cut the shoe strategically and turn every shuffle into a �winning� one. That would even turn the �unexplainable�magician-dealer� into a beatable game.

-Sonny-

I was going to keep the tracking tip to myself. Oh well, sharing is good for KARMA, so lets' share our winnings (.000001%) with dealers and beat those casinos with trackable shuffles. Peace, good luck & good karma be with the guys with great commonsenses.