The Worst Plops Ever

[johndoe]

Originally Posted by bj21abc

Let me explain this again... slowly....

I like ploppies who stand. On anything. 9 vs 6 is the example taken from the original post. They may not eat up many cards in neutral/low counts but that's a minor issue.

When the TC is high, and we see a lot of 10's coming out, ploppies who split and resplit 10's become a major hindrance, "using up" the high cards - and we get fewer +EV rounds.

Thank you for clarifying and writing more clearly; your other post really made it sound like you were the one standing.

[Pelerus]

Originally Posted by darco77

The only element that was remotely familiar to me was the overdressed fifty-something Viet guy standing behind the table, Monday-morning quarterbacking everyone in his native tongue (a staple at places like Cache Creek on Saturday nights).

I know that guy!

He must be a real degenerate or something, because he makes it all the way over to Connecticut regularly as well.

[Martin Gayle]

Originally Posted by toastblows

I have been kicked out of casinos for doing this....when i was dumb and ignorant to the whole entity of a casino (18 and dumb). "You want to stay on an 8?".....yep......"you win....wow you are good" followed by a couple backroomers asking for your ID and escorting you to the door for doing it 1 too many times.

Could you expand on this?

They booted you for being 18 I expect.

Why did you stay on an 8?

[Blue Efficacy]

Originally Posted by Martin Gayle

Could you expand on this?

They booted you for being 18 I expect.

Why did you stay on an 8?

Some locales allow 18 year olds to gamble.

The only reason I can think of for standing on 8 is ten steering, but I've heard him tell that story before and that particular store's shuffle isn't particularly prone to ace tracking or ten steering.

[somtum]

I was playing last night. Dealt an A-7 vs. 3 I go to make my double down and the ploppy next to me interrupts and says "that's not a good hand to double down." "I have my basic strategy card right here.. you can look at it". I say ok.. he shows me the card and of coarse it says to double A-7 vs. 3. I say to him.. "it says double down".. and then he still denies it after I told him what's on the card. He looks at the card and then tries to tell me that the card is wrong and he knows it's not a good double..


Again.. I have 3-3 vs 7. Make a move to split the hand. Same ploppy interrupts again. Says it's a bad split.. tell him to look at his card. Again, he tells me i'm wrong and basic strategy card doesn't call for splitting.. 2 minutes later he tells me it does say to split but his card must be wrong.