Wife Finally Sees My Game

I have played BJ for several years now, often reporting my play results to my wife, who has always been a bit skeptical. Well, on a recent trek to Vegas, I asked her to join me at the table, for the first time ever.

Well, the dealer won 8 hands in a row. We got up to go to another table, where that dealer won 5 hands in a row. I am now down 13 units without a single winning hand. Finally, we go to another table where I lost the first 2 bets. I quit at 15 consecutive losses.

She was not impressed....

Could it be psycological, at least in part?

I always do better when my wife is along. Perhaps her presence unconciously motivates me to play a tighter game.

IMO, the empirical evidence is that there is a psycological aspect to the presence/absence of better halves; and that this does have an effect on play, and therefore, results.

I usually do better when my wife is not there. I think I play too tight a game when she is there. She understands counting, and knows I on the average come out ahead (as every day we both start out with the same amount of money), whereas she with her love of video poker and let it ride usually comes out behind. When she is with me, she will sometimes increase her bet on high counts, and more often than not she looses on the higher bets.

when i expect to lose...once we were walking by a DD table at a strip property on the way to check in. I glanced down, did a quick count...hmmm...+5, this could work...jumped in at heavy green, count went to +8, went to two hands of black, finished the deck about oh 10 minutes later up one purple. She just stood there with her mouth hanging open, first time she ever saw me bet black. She thought I was the man!! Fortunately she wasnt there when I gave most of it back the next morning...

Tuesday of this week. Fortunately, the cards were with me and she was mildly impressed. I took her with me again on Thursday and again did well. My plan now is to never take her again. Twice was pushing it, if I bottomed out while she was there I would never hear the end of it. Sorry about your luck.

My wife was giving me alot of grief about spending time at the casinos so I taught her how to count and now we are a pretty effective team. It took a while for her to understand the concept of standard deviation, and we had some difficult discussions when our first few sessions were big losers, but now she is a great asset. She is actually more excited than I am about our upcoming trip to Vegas at the end of this month.

Try to play the same game with or with out the gal at your side.
I do well at Tama Iowa. I just always stick to my rules of play on the casino�s cash.

last week I did this as we eat the good low priced casino food on the way back from Des Moines. I had $6.00 left from change and went to BJ and ran the 6 bucks in to $600.00 in less than an hour!!

I was letting her have some chips and telling her what to do with them (she is novice) and was nice as she took home $400.00 bucks for her self!!

I do have my bad day's but I just set a stop limit low. Just take in small cash and never buy luck!!

I am an un-lucky person but lighting does strike!! grin!!

Play smart, and on the casino's cash!!
or pay just what you would for a stage show.

After all the Casino experience is "the greatest show on earth"