So I guess I'm not the smooth cat that I thought I was. Tonight I played my favorite joint, most PCs and dealers know me and greet me by my name, as well as security(I had gotten into an altercation with a ploppy that lead to the cops coming and arresting his stupid ass) I sat down at a table with a lady dealer that also greeted me by name with a nice smile and played the way I always do. DD game spread 1 to 2hands of 5 units. She's seen me usually play a 1-10 spread, 1 hand, so I figured I'm not in hostile territory. count goes from 0 to 2. She says to me that she can deal one more round, I put out 2 hands of 4 units, and then she changes her mind and says "actually, I'm gonna shuffle" She tells the PC, a nice guy, that she's gonna "wash the cards" and proceeds to pull out all the cards and spreads them around randomly all over the table. Then she goes ahead and shuffles normally. I get in the awkward position of pulling back my two hand, 4 unit bet back to a 1 hand, 1 unit bet.
My questions are, is this "washing excuse" a way of thwarting ace and shuffle trackers? And, does everyone else jump bets to the correct bet amount that correlates to the TC regardless of what you bet the prior round? Sometimes I would say ploppy stuff like, "gotta make up my losses by betting more" and "I'm not afraid of you!" But since this lady whom I thought was more player friendly than casino friendly, was suspicious of my bet jump, I ended up trying to slowly raise my bet regardless of how high the TC jumped tonight. didn't seem that any of my ploppy lines worked. does anyone advocate slowly raising your bet as cover?
My questions are, is this "washing excuse" a way of thwarting ace and shuffle trackers? And, does everyone else jump bets to the correct bet amount that correlates to the TC regardless of what you bet the prior round? Sometimes I would say ploppy stuff like, "gotta make up my losses by betting more" and "I'm not afraid of you!" But since this lady whom I thought was more player friendly than casino friendly, was suspicious of my bet jump, I ended up trying to slowly raise my bet regardless of how high the TC jumped tonight. didn't seem that any of my ploppy lines worked. does anyone advocate slowly raising your bet as cover?