Team Strategy

[TakingTheHouse]

I've been thinking about this as a team strategy idea. This could be used with a 2 player minimum.

I go in the casino with my friend. He plays the broke college student and I play the dropout internet dotcom guy (both of the stories are true anyways so it won't be hard to act, I'll just have to act a lot more ego-centric than I normally would). He bets the min until the deck gets hot, signals me in and I stumble over and he makes some remark about how he has no money left and needs Mr. Moneybags to step in. I'll take his seat and start betting big until the deck cools down and then I'll leave.

Does anything sound wrong with this strategy? I know some places say you shouldn't act like you know your team-mates, but would it work out in an instance like this?

I'm just vocalizing my thoughts here, I haven't even begun learning how to count yet (well, slightly). I'm just figuring out if it'll be more beneficial to use team-play or just going at it solo.

 

[rollem411]

I've been thinking about this as a team strategy idea. This could be used with a 2 player minimum.

I go in the casino with my friend. He plays the broke college student and I play the dropout internet dotcom guy (both of the stories are true anyways so it won't be hard to act, I'll just have to act a lot more ego-centric than I normally would). He bets the min until the deck gets hot, signals me in and I stumble over and he makes some remark about how he has no money left and needs Mr. Moneybags to step in. I'll take his seat and start betting big until the deck cools down and then I'll leave.

Does anything sound wrong with this strategy? I know some places say you shouldn't act like you know your team-mates, but would it work out in an instance like this?

I'm just vocalizing my thoughts here, I haven't even begun learning how to count yet (well, slightly). I'm just figuring out if it'll be more beneficial to use team-play or just going at it solo.

For a one time hit and run, ok. Anything after that, you may as well hold a sign above your head.

 

[SD Padres]

Yeah, it will work once...but then what? I suppose you would maybe get in 5-15 hands at a decent count. Not enough to do any damage unless you were playing purple.

You would be better off to both back-count tables and signal each other in when the count got high. It's one thing to be back-counting a table and jump in when the count gets high. That can get the attention of the pit real quick. But if you signal in another player, that would be way less noticable.
And, you are never playing at negative counts. Just an idea.