1357111317 said:
I have a couple questions about what to expect for heat. If you start off the shoe and bet the table max for 5 hands then go back to the table min for the rest of the shoe does that generate any heat due to the wild bet spread? Or what about 5 for the first couple hands up to 50 for the next couple, down to 20 for the next couple then back to 50 for the rest of the shoe? Or do casinos just love this because they know you aren't card counting if you are betting the max bet within the first 5 hands of the shoe?
Well, if you are card counting its a bad idea, because big bets will always bring heat. So they will check out your game. Heat is not a problem if you don't count cards, or participate in some other well known form of advantage play..
If you are not using some readily Identifiable and known form of advantage play, you will have to win lots of money over many many sessions, and spend lots of time at one casino on one shift before they ever start to think of banning you, even then they will probably think you are lucky, will want to get you to join the players club and offer you comps because they will want to get their money back.
In short if you aren't counting cards or shuffle tracking, tracking aces etc, you don't have to worry about heat. But if you do have some real form of advantage play, even if it is unknown, don't ever join a players club because then they will track all of your bets, so they know how much of a comp to give you.
if you are on a $5 dollar table and you drop a $1,000 bet, the whole pit is gonna be staring at you solid until you leave the table, and if your bets follow the count at all, you will be banned.
in order to avoid heat your bets should be in chips the size of the minimum bet. ie, $5 min red chips, 25 min green chips, 100min black chips, if you are at $5 table and you want to bet $50 you would be better off using 10 red chips then 2 green chips, most pits require the dealer to alert the boss if there is an upward change in the color of the players chips. At most pits if you are betting red chips and you throw in a green chips, the dealer will call it out and the pit boss may or may not saunter over to the table and check out your play.