I know, I was just bugging you. ;)
When I asked my local dealer about tips, he said everyone shares the tips which I thought sucks because if I tipped a good dealer, the jackass dealer on the other table would be getting my tip also.
for almost every casino in the world now. There are a few indian casinos or really small casinos where the dealer carries his own box, but with the way security is now, you can't trust anybody anymore, and for good reason. It would be so easy to slip extra chips in the box. So by pooling that temptation is gone. That is the real reason for the way it is. Also, I feel a little sorry for the Craps dealers. They put up with the most crap from players, work lightning fast consistantly and don't see nearly half the tips a BJ dealer would see, on average.
Your post suggests that 5% of the dealers know how to shuffle track. I doubt that 5% of card counters can shuffle track. Better than that, you can shuffle track while dealing!
You are truly amazing. When are you going to realize that someone with your talent could make much more money on the other side of the table?
Dr 21
troy,
Once when I was playing at one of my favored casinos, the dealer just kept getting Ace upcards. Sometimes the count was high enough to take insurance, while other times it was not, so I of course took appropriate action. Just after I had won my third or fourth insurance bet in a row, one of the ploppies looked at me and exclaimed, "How do you know when to take insurance?" As I was preparing to deliver Standard Response Number 6 ("phase of the moon"), the dealer made a fist to cover her mouth and coughed, "Counting!" The ploppy looked confused, the dealer smirked, and I said nothing.
To this day, I still play there with the same dealer.
Dog Hand
The other day I was playing local 6D and had two max bets out. Dealer gets three blackjacks in four hands! I insured them all, of course. No one else did. Count drops, so I skip the insurance the next time she showed an ace. The dealer asked the ploppy next to me (who got HAMMERED by the earlier dealer blackjacks) if he wanted insurance. Oblivious to my saving (winning) $900, he proudly states, "I'd NEVER take insurance!" (i.e., insinuating that I was a lucky moron, which certainly didn't bother me). The dealer glanced over at me with a smirk at that comment.
