You people are using way too much cover

[T-Hopper]

According to the poll: 56% 0 backoffs; 16% 1-2 backoffs. Come on play more aggressively!

 

[learning to count]

You have a point T hopper. But then maybe we all have small BR"S and we cant bet big. I have noticed a high toleration to under black betting. Even 5 or six greens stacked gets a little look nothing more. So maybe we are all low rollers! Something to ponder I guess. LTC

 

[Sonny]

If I can't get barred for a 1-40 spread at the Western, what else should I try? Of course, I think the fact that it was literally a $1-$40 spread may have helped.

Maybe I'll hit the Barbary Coast next. I'll tell 'em "T-Hopper sent me!"

-Sonny-

P.S.-I agree, save your camouflage for the war!

P.P.S.-Nice to see you again T-Hopper. I was just asking about you at the CCCafe. You've been busy working on your new systems, huh?

 

[SammyBoy]

No Cover Here

I've been playing a single deck game spreading 1 to 5, sometimes as high as 7 if I lose a max bet and the count is still high. No heat whatsoever. I too am a red chipper, but most of the games I play have a minimum above $5.

 

[hammer]

The idea is not to go to extremes

-that will only get the casinos to make their policies even
bolder,is that what we want.
If everyone went to extremes then the overall play/conditions would
be even worse.
Read burning the tables by one of the greatest Ian Anderson,who has never
got tossed once.

 

[T-Hopper]

Ian Andersen has been barred many times

 

[BlackJackHack]

Re: Ian Andersen has been barred many times

I think the reason that 56% have never been backed off is that most of them are red chip. You would have to work pretty hard at it to get backed off playing red. A player with profit potential of $15/hour simply is not worth paying much attention to.

As a green chip player, I would agree that if you NEVER get backed off, you are either (1) not playing aggressively enough, or (2) the house (correctly) thinks you're not a threat. You probably can play without heat at many Strip joints spreading 1-5 or 1-6 at green, but you make the REAL money on those 8x and 10x unit bets.

 

[T-Hopper]

Re: reed chip barrings

There are plenty of casinos in Vegas and especially in Reno that back off red chippers. In many cases, these are the same places where red chippers should be playing - not at a mega-deck grind joints like the MGM.

 

[Adam N. Subtractum]

this is true...

Do a search of recent posts at many of the forums, there have been several reports of red chip barrings downtown and of course Reno recently. Now as for "reed" chips, I dunno, I never had the pleasure to play at that level. ;-)

ANS

 

[Alexander Mundy]

I had the most barrings in that survey...

50+ and that didn't even count being chased out of a joint by a 300 lb goon and the pit supervisor Friday night. Since thay never gat the chance to actually tell me...it doesn't count.