ycming said:
I am thinking of changing the bet spread pattern to 1-10 with little wonging at £2/hands. Will also spread to 2 hands (150% of bet), as soon as is above TC 2+.
So you bet the table min of £2, and suddently you shift to two boxes of £8 or more each? And then after a hand or two perhaps go back to one bet of £2?
I hope you keep one eye on the location of the man/lady in the suit at all times. They are the floor supervisors and don't wear the standard Gala uniforms. Generally they run around filling in forms and supervising chip replenishments etc, but when they've nothing to do they'll just sit and watch people playing - I'm sure you've seen them. I've had one hovering over my shoulder in the past - I think just curious as to why the pile of chips in front of me was growing, when everyone else was losing all and leaving the table after they'd blown their score buy in (the card god was smiling on me that day).
I've also seen a floor sup sitting behind a screen looking at stills from the entrance camera - probably looking to ID someone for some reason. So although, in my experience, the dealers have little idea of how counting works (although one I met in a Gala knew exactly what I was doing), the supervisors and managers are not completely silly and will notice these things if you rub their noses in it. And they'll notice if you're playing a lot of hours there and regularly cashing out more than you cash in. They expect you to win some, lose some sure - but if they see you betting £2 table mins, spreading to two boxes for more for a few hands at a time, and then cashing out a couple hundred, they might just ask the dealer what you cashed in for (if they haven't already checked your Fortune points account first and you used it) - again out of curiosity. Then they'll put two and two together. And from then onwards you're a suspect as they say . . . .
It may be that they only worry about all of this stuff on the £25 table, but you may just run foul of some snotty young upstart looking to score a few brownie points in the first few weeks of their being given the sup's slot. There's always one (unfortunately).
Good luck with your £4K target.