In reading posts here, I find many of us have a wide variation in just who we define as a "ploppy." For some, it is anyone who is not a proficient AP, for myself an amatuer, a tourist and a good basic strategy player may not necessarily be a ploppy and for others there are other requirements.
In my mind, to qualify for the esteemed position of ploppy, one must first of all of have a severe degree of "know it all" attitude combined with just enough knowledge and lack of understanding of the game, to sound like they know what they are talking about when they tell everyone what to do.
He is the, someone has to take a hit, you ruined a perfectly good 18 (works for both soft 18 and splitting 9's), the you took the dealers bust card and the you ruined the flow guy, besides tons of others.
He will let everyone know just how you messed up the table.
Somehow, he knew that that 10 was coming out before the 5 that made the dealers hand and it will cause the rest of the shoe to be bad for the *team.
*He is not only a team player but the self appointed leader of the team.
Though I played team sports in school, I never quite understood his team concept since no team member has shared my losses or asked to share my wins in the past.
Ploppys come it seems in all ages, sexes, races and financial groups. Female ploppys generally annoy me the most but male ones have one additional quality not found in female ploppys; that is by being born male they naturally know how to play blackjack better than any mere girl and will be there to consistantly tell me what I did wrong.
So, for me a ploppy is a know it all, non AP, who's greatest pleasure is telling everyone around him just how to play a game that he actually does not know how to play.
Victoria (who was once named by a ploppy as the "Queen of the anti-flow" Whatever the hell that is.
In my mind, to qualify for the esteemed position of ploppy, one must first of all of have a severe degree of "know it all" attitude combined with just enough knowledge and lack of understanding of the game, to sound like they know what they are talking about when they tell everyone what to do.
He is the, someone has to take a hit, you ruined a perfectly good 18 (works for both soft 18 and splitting 9's), the you took the dealers bust card and the you ruined the flow guy, besides tons of others.
He will let everyone know just how you messed up the table.
Somehow, he knew that that 10 was coming out before the 5 that made the dealers hand and it will cause the rest of the shoe to be bad for the *team.
*He is not only a team player but the self appointed leader of the team.
Though I played team sports in school, I never quite understood his team concept since no team member has shared my losses or asked to share my wins in the past.
Ploppys come it seems in all ages, sexes, races and financial groups. Female ploppys generally annoy me the most but male ones have one additional quality not found in female ploppys; that is by being born male they naturally know how to play blackjack better than any mere girl and will be there to consistantly tell me what I did wrong.
So, for me a ploppy is a know it all, non AP, who's greatest pleasure is telling everyone around him just how to play a game that he actually does not know how to play.
Victoria (who was once named by a ploppy as the "Queen of the anti-flow" Whatever the hell that is.
