Ever been tipped by another player?

[21forme]

A few weeks ago, big player next to me with a 15. I'm at third base. I have a 12 and dealer has a 2 showing. Count is positive, so I stand. Dealer draws a ten and busts. Dealer starts next hand and first card out is an 8. Guy throws me a green chip and says thanks. At first, I'm thinking I should throw it back and then I think to myself WTF and keep it.

[ChefJJ]

A girl I dated years ago was when we were playing...a green chip here and a green chip there. Some creepy old dude with lots of cash, but works for me.

that's certainly a more common practice in craps, but I've rarely seen it at the blackjack table

[Jeff25]

Originally Posted by 21forme

A few weeks ago, big player next to me with a 15. I'm at third base. I have a 12 and dealer has a 2 showing. Count is positive, so I stand. Dealer draws a ten and busts. Dealer starts next hand and first card out is an 8. Guy throws me a green chip and says thanks. At first, I'm thinking I should throw it back and then I think to myself WTF and keep it.

I had almost the exact scenario happen to me a while back. I was sitting at 3rd bast with a soft 18. I end up hitting it a few times and busting. If I would have stood the dealer would have pulled the 21. The guy to the right of me with 2 large bets out, both winners, tosses me a green chip and thanks me.

[tedloc]

Originally Posted by 21forme

A few weeks ago, big player next to me with a 15. I'm at third base. I have a 12 and dealer has a 2 showing. Count is positive, so I stand. Dealer draws a ten and busts. Dealer starts next hand and first card out is an 8. Guy throws me a green chip and says thanks. At first, I'm thinking I should throw it back and then I think to myself WTF and keep it.

What do you think would have happened the next time, when you hit your 12 vs a dealer 2 and he lost? Be ready to give the chip back. Most people, would not know when you made a good play or not.

[EasyRhino]

While back, I timed a bathroom break during a negative count. When I get back, guy next to me had been winning like crazy, and thanked me for disrupting the flow of the cards, and tossed me a green chip.

While later at the same table, we had an especially unlikely win, due to that guy's play (good or bad, don't remember), so I gave him a commission of a couple of my red chips.

And last weekend, I was ten bucks short on a double down, and asked if anyone wanted to go in on it with me. When I paid the slightly drunk guy back his $20 after winning, he was surprised, saying "oh, I thought it was just a loan to a good friend!". I love drunk guys.

[blackchipjim]

I just had this conversation recently at a table I was playing. Awhile back I walked up to a table and sat down next to a guy that is a regular player. He promptly shook his head and mutterd this table sucks. Upon looking at his depleted chip pile then to the dealer, I asked the fellow if he believes in good luck charms where he said" kinda" I promptly told him I'm his good luck charm. The gentleman kept winning at a quite impressive rate and I was really just even overall. When I mentioned I should move to another table he started to feed my pile once in awhile with greens. I felt funny and kept them in a seperate pile and told him if he wants them back he can take them but he never did. blackchipjim

[tribute]

I was also at 3rd base on a full $5 table. The young guy at 2nd was winning several hands in a row. The whole table was high-fiving and yelling each time the dealer busted. I was just making proper basic strategy plays and of course, the ploppies blamed ME for their good fortunes. The 2nd base was now betting $300 per hand and tossing me greens. I even started asking him how HE wanted me to play my close hands. Things did finally cool down, but it was the most fun and memorable session I ever had!

[Automatic Monkey]

I have received a green toke from another player, for Basic Strategy advice. Thing is, once you take money from someone you are working for him, so it's a good idea to find another table shortly after that happens.

[Preston]

I got a $100 tip at Borgata in AC when I was playing next to a guy who had no concept of basic strategy. He had been betting $1k/hand and lost about 4 in a row. The count was climbing. He got dealt AA and went to hit I stopped the dealer and said "hang on... you aren't splitting those"

"I'm getting killed."

"I'll go 50/50 on it" (risking $500 plus the $100 I had riding on my hand (19))\

"You sure?"

"Yup."

He drew two 10's for 21. Dealer flips over a 10 for 19. He pushes me $1000 that I won.. then tosses me an another blackchip for "saving his ass"


Coincidentally... that same night...

Another table I was at $25 min and just flat betting until I lost a hand. getting ready to wong out. One other player at the table had won about 7 hands in a row and was pushing his luck. He tossed me a green chip to stay in for the rest of the shoe (we were about halfway through).

I ended up winning every single hand the rest of the shoe. :-)

He wasn't as lucky, but he still made some $$ on that shoe.

[dacium]

Some big better was betting on perfect pairs. Technically the rules were you couldn't bet on it unless you had a bet in the box. So he asked if I would put it on my box for him (Since i wasn't playing). I said sure why not. He got 3 perfect pairs paying 30:1 with $50 out and each time he let me keep the original bet, not bad at all!