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| D |
thanks. It was the first time I used progressive betting and a couple of times with splits and doubles, I was betting more than I usually feel comfortable wiih, but my motto was "in for a penny, in for a pound." last night it worked. I love it when others at the table start asking me for advice. i have a homemade BS card with the splits and Ace combinations on it. |
2003-07-06 08:58:04 |
| D |
Deer Dog, Yes we ate at Greektown last night. But we go to Laikon Cafe next door to Hella's. It's less crowded and has great food and atmosphere also. OOOOPA! |
2003-07-06 08:54:36 |
| Deer Dog Deluxe |
hey, D, see you're on here: congrats on your nice win! |
2003-07-06 08:52:46 |
| D |
sld... I no longer will no longer talk to or about you. D |
2003-07-06 08:51:00 |
| Deer Dog Deluxe |
D: do you get to have dinner at Hellas when you go to Greektown to play? OOOMPA! |
2003-07-06 08:50:50 |
| D |
Desert Dog, Yes, in fact we walked through the Detroit casino just as they changed all the tables to $25 minimum and kept walking. We drove 10 minutes through the tunnel (which is difficult sometimes, post 9/11) and played all night at $15-$25 tables ( with currency exchange at 1.33%). I came home with 150% of my buy in and covered for my (intelligent and handsome) husband's losses. He wants to know the name of this site today. I wonder why??? D |
2003-07-06 08:50:22 |
| Deer Dog Deluxe |
Hey, Doc: no disrespect to anybody's body parts, but I wonder if cojones (yours, mine, anyone's) don't sometimes get in the way of success at the tables. You might find this too fanciful, but I experience the casino as a huge arena of constantly fluctuating numbers: the player walks into an arena that is brimming with possibility: what's required is to find the right spot at the right time that's gonna dump a pile o' cash into one's lap. The trick is to stay light on one's feet, patient, attentive. Sure, you use every "skill" you've got at your command to stay afloat. But when you find the perfect spot, you have to recognize it, and make hay. |
2003-07-06 08:47:11 |
| Mondello |
SLD's wittty grlfrnd- please help me, for I'm living in the past and cannot seem to get any "BJ's". |
2003-07-06 05:59:30 |
| sld007 witty "2" girlfriend |
sld007 right, I am a large girl with voluminous everything including tighs, hips, and an arm bigger than his waist. sld007 is a good man living back in the 50's who is getting his BJ's mixed up with his past - sorry, but I still love him. witty "2" |
2003-07-06 04:48:20 |
| Desert Dog |
D, hope you did well in downtown Detroit. Do you ever cross the river to the casino on the Canadian side? A $10 bet there would only be about $7 of our dollars. |
2003-07-05 18:49:16 |
| sld007 |
Sorry guys - I only go out with girls who (i) have monster titties (no typo!) and (ii) love to gamble. I teach em to play BJ the right way, through in my modified Dahl progression and they usually walk away winners. Which also means, coincedentally, that I don't sleep on the sofa! One girl, true story, won $2000 in 5 hours and said "Wow, all this cash and I didn't have to take my clothes off once!" (She blew me behind the bandstand at the Rick Springfield concert later, but that's another story). |
2003-07-05 16:02:50 |
| D |
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2003-07-05 15:55:48 |
| D |
Going to downtown Detroit tonight (Greektown), wish me luck (and good BS). i\If your there look for me, I'll be the quick witted one! |
2003-07-05 13:26:41 |
| Desert Dog |
Wow, we're all busy writing this Saturday afternoon. ronman -- don't split 10's again. You'll make Arizonans in Vegas look bad. Your odds of two successive high cards are a lot less than the near-sure win of the 20 in front of you, and we all know a dealer 6 is just a hopeful sign and not a guarantee s/he'll bust. You're right about splitting Aces being the most exciting play, and Doc's story illustrates why you must ALWAYS split them. (And also why you shouldn't just randomly bet big on a whim.) Doc -- I've had great streaks on CSM's and lousy win-lose-win-lose patterns on regular shoes from auto-shufflers, and then vice-versa. So I don't think there's any difference, except of course card counters can forget it with CSM's. One interesting fact I've read in several different sources is that all things being equal regarding the other rules, CSM's have the LOWEST house advantage. I haven't found out why, but my guess is that it's because BS is always going to be the absolutely correct move, while with a shoe that gets heavily skewed, it no longer is, and experienced counters adjust not just their betting but for some hands also their play. For example in some cases -- I think a high positive count -- splitting 10's actually becomes correct, but that would never be the case with a CSM. |
2003-07-05 12:37:44 |
| Desert Dog |
I'm glad to see you're still contributing, D, and hope deer dog deluxe does too. We all wish sld and his now-famous girlfriend a wonderful time in Shreveport. ronman -- I can leave after a quick visit because Casino Arizona at Indian Bend & 101 is more convenient for me than Starbucks, which is both a good and bad thing. Including those quick visits, I try to limit it to 2-4 times a month, and I probably won't go back until after my Vegas trip later this month. If Gila River is your closest local casino, they're not getting live blackjack until August. A word of warning: once it's that convenient, you have to discipline yourself. |
2003-07-05 12:06:00 |
| Doc |
Oops, not a CSM, an auto-shuffle, still haven't heard enough about the CSMs from the veterans to know if they are worth while and if any particular betting system seems to work better. I have heard that they are more 'regular' and less 'streaky' but don't know if thats true. |
2003-07-05 12:05:05 |
| ronman5000 |
to me, there is nothing as exciting as splitting aces. One of my split highlights was splitting 10's against a dealers 6...I know Iknow, not supposed to give up a 20...even the dealer tried to coax me not to...dealt a K and A, dealer busted....whew! |
2003-07-05 12:00:35 |
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