Recent content by KewlJ

Thanks G Man. No sense wasting a trip to "the shore" then.

So my time playing Atlantic City was 2004 until end of 2009, when I relocated to Las Vegas. Every year I make at least 1 trip back to eastern Pa to play the Pa rotation of games for 7-10 days. But I have only ventured back to AC 1 time for a day. The reason I don't get back to AC is because I...

Yeah, a lot of people feel that way. I have always sort of had a "thing" for the old Las Vegas that I missed out on. And with good rules and not getting the heat others talk about, it just became one of my favorites. There is a hallway in the middle of the casino that goes from the table...

Speaking of Bill Zender, I don't know him of course, seems like maybe you did Don? Or am I reading that wrong? But Zender's philosophy written in his book was that solo type card counters playing moderate stakes like max bet of mid black, were no REAL threat to casinos. Any countermeasures...

Thank you Don. I too have seen players backed off at EC spreading red $$10-50, or $10-60.....often at the same table. One guy in particular was backed of spreading $10-60 I think, while I was spreading $50-$300. He looked at me as if to say "what about him?". But he didn't. I also was...

My first time at El Cortez was summer of 2008. I was visiting Vegas for 4 weeks. Stayed cheap at a place called Ogden House Motel which was right out the back door of El Cortez and owned by El Cortez. It later was renovated into the Cabana Suites at El Cortez. I paid for the first week. It...

Ok, so here is my "tap" story. In my time in Vegas I have received probably 80 backoffs, 1 trespass, and several entries in a database. I was lucky enough to play during the time, that the most common countermeasure was the polite backoff. "Any other game but blackjack", "Your game is just...

I also wasn't aware that the $5-$50 limit card applying only to one player had been ruled illegal. But am not surprised. Like 21forme, 2009 was the year I left AC for good. But for the second half of 2008 into 2009, the $5-$50 bet limit card was the countermeasure I most often received. A...

Speaking of "the tap", I have an interesting one that happened recently. Still a little to fresh, so I will hold off for a bit before telling.

LOL @ the "lucky chair". Ploppies are great! Drawing a crowd is a tricky proposition. There are definitely times it can help you avoid a backoff that day and get through that shoe. But someone probably will review you play, if they didn't in real time and there could be trouble next time you...

TC -5, and -10? You are funning me right? What happened to Mr White Rabbit Don Schlesiger? :) But I do get your point.

It is funny, when I had this experience that I describe and became friends with the pit guy, he told me "I just can't allow you to play and have those kind of results anymore". I was completely ok with that and our arrangement, but I did try to tell him that what happened that day really had...

I'll tell you the perfect story of what I am talking about. It happened back in 2011, and I believe I told it on this forum back when it was different ownership. I call it the "perfect shoe". I will try to keep it short but probably will fail. It was the old Monte Carlo Casino on the strip...

Yes, I suppose that is true....either way, you are done for THAT day. But speaking from my own experience, and I have been playing Vegas for a living for 17 years now, I just feel like Las Vegas, using the model where they can back off and even ban/trespass players are actually a little more...

Ok, in Vegas this year, I haven't had any of the usual polite backoffs that I get here, but I have had 3 what I call heat incidents. Two of them my picture was sent around electronically to sister properties in the same chain. The workaround, just don't play the casinos involved for a few...