Two ladies at a table in Vegas
JulieCA said:
I just got back from Palm Springs, playing a couple days at The Spa.
There's a woman who's a regular there who kept having a fit and telling me all about what "you never do!"
This included: never split 9s, never split 2s or 3s, never hit 12 against a dealer 2 or 3, never hit A7 against ANY card... and on it went.
I try and ignore this type of behavior as much as possible but there were a couple times I wanted to reach out and just smack her. I'm hoping she runs out of play money sometime soon.
Something so perfect I witnessed while watching another counter.
Sitting at first base is an excellent cardcounter with perhaps the perfect cover when the pit is male. She is tall, beautiful and was a college basketball player. Sitting at third base is a middle aged little lady who plays perfect basic strategy, does not count, is losing money and berates any player who does not play her way, yells at the dealers and has even complained about the pit to his boss.
The shoe is almost over and the count has gone to a horrid -5 but there is only one hand left. The counter at first base gets a total of 9, first base had a pat hand of 17 or 18 and the dealer is showing a 3. Playing a negative indice, first base does not double but takes a hit, gets a 3 and then hits a 9 for 21. Two other players stay as does third base. The dealer turns a 13 hits a 6 and takes everyone's money except first.
At that moment third base goes nuts. She is yelling at first base that if she had doubled, as she should have, the dealer would have busted and she cost her X and is an idiot of a player etc etc etc. And this goes on, the dealer is trying to quiet the woman and she turns on him and the pit is approaching the table. Very calmly, first base tells the woman, "give me your chips"! She answers with a loud "What!" Third base just smiles at her and tells her, "if you want me to play your way I certainly will but only with your money."
As the loud B word is being blasted by third as she storms away, the pit turns around laughing, the dealer is trying to hide his laugh and the guy next to third base tells her that he wished he had said that to the other woman earlier.
Now if it had been two guys there might have been fireworks in the parking lot, but the perfection and calmness of the response to me was just classic.
Did it bring attention to the counter one might ask? Probably but not in a way that would hurt her short term at that casino. She was a hero, she got a woman who was running off other players, and constantly complaining about the staff to leave.
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