Recent content by chenlizhen

Ah. H17, no DAS, no RSA, no surrender, ~60% penetration, uncrowded even on a Sunday afternoon. I suspect they can take the losses but not the wins, as I got crushed there twice (>11k total) but got prematurely shuffled on by a young, fat, bald, Caucasian pit boss when I bumped my bet from $50...

I was at Soboba in January 2008. The shoe game is still hit soft 17, but I think they do have surrender and DAS and RSA. The penetration is about 65%, as their procedure, after the player cuts and the dealer moves the back chunk to the front, is to lop off anything past the width of one cut card.

Up about 600, then down about 1500, finally up about 80. Eh. Doh! ihate17, 1) playing beside a bigger player: good thought, but I'd opine that the Spa's penetration is so crummy that you need the place to be pretty dead. I guess I don't find it a great loss to be tossed from there. 2)...

somewhat PC rant I'm all for hot Asian chicks, but, man, can we for once see an Asian man get the hottie, Asian or otherwise? The best players on the team that Kevin Lewis was on were Asian or half-Asian. Man, I'm thinking of switching my cell phone to Verizon just because they have a...

The Spa in downtown Palm Springs just backed me off, but you may want to play there. - 2D, S17, DAS - sounds good, right? But... - 45% penetration (ignore the ~15 burn cards) That's horrible, but the place is dead, i.e. very few people are playing. I generally played with 0 or 1 other...