That was the best suggestion... so far! (nt)
I lit up a big fat stinky cigar, I was sitting in one of the middle seats. The first to leave were the people on either side of me followed by the rest of the table!
First of all, lose the name. I don't think you would use it at the airport so don't use it here. To get back to the topic; when I was playing hole card (first basing or indexing) back in the 80's, some times it was necessary to move people out of a certain chair. The best ways are:
a.) Tell them your sick and warn them that you may throw up at any time. Put a slot coin bucket in your lap. Then gag a little. Note: It also works good on Southwest Airlines flights. The only empty seat in the whole airplane will be next to you.
b.) Ask a player how to play each hand, while acting a little crazy. Once that person leaves, slide over to the next person and acted the same way.
c.) Play crazy. Try to hit two tens and question why you can't hit them since they equal zero. Explain you just learned how to play baccarat. Tell the dealer you don't know how to play BJ but since you learn Baccarat, BJ can't be that hard. Note: bet table minimum.
d.) When playing alone ask new player not to sit down at your table. Tell them your doing good and ask them not to sit and play untill you lose a couple hands. I even try to slip them a couple of dollar chips for their support.
Note: It's very important to tip the dealer when doing any of the above stunts. This way he will be reluctant to call the floor person over and run you off.
One time I actually bought a seat from a guy. I had a good first baser at Jerry's Nugget and this guy was homesteading in the first chair. The dealer was assigned that table and unless I got into that seat I wasn't getting the hole card. I asked the guy if I could have his seat and he said no, that it was lucky for him. I then asked how much he had won and he told me $20. I told him I would double his winning if he gave me his "lucky seat". We settled on $30. And as luck has it, I lost $250 dollars that night first basing a 90% reader in his "luck seat".
Zman
nt
You made tears flow on my cheeks... laughing! Thanks. Great humor.
ps: may be you really practice that? Do you?
I've used all and some several times. They work.
Zman
ps- Especially the air sickness bag on Southwest.
[properly] will drive them nuts.I've had people damn near attack me for doing it.Hitting 12 or the way you play A7 correctly will do it too.
Happened to me just this weekend. Dealer has 4 up, I split 9's. (I'm on 3rd base). I get a face on both of 'em, so I figure I'm in good shape. Dealer flips over 10 hole card, I figure I'm in really good shape, since count is high.
Of course, dealer draws what has to be the last 7 in the pack, and everyone at the table wants to kill me for splitting the 9's and drawing the two faces.
They didn't leave, though. :-)
A younger fellow at first did not split his nines against a three. After the elderly woman on third base loss her bet she proceeded to berate him up one side and down the other.
She did leave the table. However, as she was walking out she stopped for another moment or two at his sit to yell at him some more.
I think it's great that a game like blackjack can do so much to promote cross-generational communication.
A friend of mine was travelling with a 3 other guys, one of whom had had most of his intestine removed due to some medical condition. As a result, he could emit huge amounts of methane at will, just by eating stuff he shouldn't. They were in a casino and couldn't get a table together. "Wait a sec", he told his friends, then created an enormous silent fart behind a table. Within a minute, he had cleared the area and a table became free.
A little drastic, though.
