An AP move I'm pretty proud of...

[Preston]

I'm kinda proud of this one.

So I'm playing a double deck pitch game. Cards are dealt face down.\

I'm playing one hand. Heads up with dealer.

Count drops big time. I'm just minimum betting my way trough it getting it over with.

Hell freezes over, and I get dealt a blackjack..dealer has a 5 showing so I know he has to draw...

I tuck my cards under my chips. Dealer proceeds to draw a 5 card 21 -- cut card comes out right before the last card.

He turns over my hand gets ready to take my bet but then realizes that I had a natural. I play a "whoops.. stupid me" move.

Figure saved me that last bet of the round. Floor wasn't too happy but just told the dealer to shuffle.


:-)

[jimbiggs]

nice one

[zengrifter]

Thats a cute little trick that I am going to use. Thanks! zg

[21forme]

I like it!

[suicyco maniac]

ZG I'm surprised you haven't used this trick before. I've used it several times and I don't even play many pitch games. From reading a lot of your posts over the years I had the impression you tended to play lots of SD and DD. I doubt the move will add much to anyones win rate but it is fun to see the look of disgust on the dealers face. Especially when the dealer is an ass that really wants to beat ya.

[shadroch]

I've played a lot of BJ(mostly DD) and read most of the good books out there,but this is a new move for me. Nicely done.

[Automatic Monkey]

Originally Posted by suicyco maniac

ZG I'm surprised you haven't used this trick before. I've used it several times and I don't even play many pitch games. From reading a lot of your posts over the years I had the impression you tended to play lots of SD and DD. I doubt the move will add much to anyones win rate but it is fun to see the look of disgust on the dealers face. Especially when the dealer is an ass that really wants to beat ya.

Yeah I did something that when I was showing off for some counters I met down in Biloxi, cut a bad hand out of a DD shoe.

But I didn't just keep a BJ face down, I busted and kept drawing cards. And drawing. And drawing. After I saw the cut card I just giggled and flopped my hand.

Now what would be really fun is to try and force a deeply dealt SD game down to the last card like that. You have a BP in the last seat betting table max and accomplices betting table min screwing with the deck, splitting anything and everything, overdrawing. Meanwhile each of the accomplices is sidecounting a rank or two for the BP. Who knows how the pit would react, but it would be fun to see.

[EasyRhino]

I like it to, the best I had done previously was to draw two additional 10s, and instead of flipping over my mathematically-inevitable busted hand, just tuck the cards. But this serves no purpose other than to antagonize the dealer.

[MAZ]

Originally Posted by Preston

I'm kinda proud of this one.

So I'm playing a double deck pitch game. Cards are dealt face down.\

I'm playing one hand. Heads up with dealer.

Count drops big time. I'm just minimum betting my way trough it getting it over with.

Hell freezes over, and I get dealt a blackjack..dealer has a 5 showing so I know he has to draw...

I tuck my cards under my chips. Dealer proceeds to draw a 5 card 21 -- cut card comes out right before the last card.

He turns over my hand gets ready to take my bet but then realizes that I had a natural. I play a "whoops.. stupid me" move.

Figure saved me that last bet of the round. Floor wasn't too happy but just told the dealer to shuffle.


:-)

You got lucky. You didn't know that the cut card was coming did you. So you claim ignorance and then the next shuffle proceed to play basic strategy perfectly proving to a pissed off dealer or pit that the only thing you're really ignorant about is how to play an advantage undetected. Here's a better idea, next time the count tanks, get the hell off the table or sit out the hands. Playing little "I didn't know any better tricks" while the other 99% of the time they know you do, will get you a place in the cheap seats just watching the games.....if you're lucky.

[MAZ]

Originally Posted by Automatic Monkey

Yeah I did something that when I was showing off for some counters I met down in Biloxi, cut a bad hand out of a DD shoe.

But I didn't just keep a BJ face down, I busted and kept drawing cards. And drawing. And drawing. After I saw the cut card I just giggled and flopped my hand.

Now what would be really fun is to try and force a deeply dealt SD game down to the last card like that. You have a BP in the last seat betting table max and accomplices betting table min screwing with the deck, splitting anything and everything, overdrawing. Meanwhile each of the accomplices is sidecounting a rank or two for the BP. Who knows how the pit would react, but it would be fun to see.

You are even worse. I have to say this is either bullsh*t, or you're just not very bright. Yeah, what a bright idea, pulling multiple cards over the bust mark and saying oops when you flop em. Again, if you play the rest of the time meticulously, and then pull stupid sh*t like that, you are inviting a look at your play. You can't turn stupid on and off, being able to know BS perfectly and then not knowing when to flip your cards. This is message board Ap not real world dude.