Re: questions to Billb

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Clams Canino
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> I'd think that in most houses dealers paying pushes would soon get written
> up. The eye in the sky misses little.
> 

  All play is video taped, but is often not reviewed.  Occasional pay of
  pushes happen, albeit rarely.  Consistent pay of pushes will get 
  noticed.

> >
> > 3.   I have not really become a good counter yet but I am working on
> > it.   As a dealer you see the tell-tale signs before anyone . .  what
> > does the casino expect you to do about it?  What do most dealers
> > actually do?
> 
> I expect they are supposed to signal the pit critters. I don't know if they
> actually do when the counter is tipping well.

  You are assuming that the dealer is question will know the tell-tales
  of a counter.  Despite some claims to the contrary, the casinos do 
  want dealers to understand card counting.  The most simple reason
  is that if dealers were knowledgable in card counting then there 
  would be a large group of relatively skilled counters in town.  A 
  dealer can't play in his/her casino, but she/he can play in all the
  others.  

> >
> > 4.   Is it safe to think that if I am playing a bet spread of 10-50
> > and my winning per session are under $1000 I will be too small a fish
> > to attract attention?
> 
> I would think that with any kind of "cover" you'd likely stay under most
> radars.  Paranoid houses not withstanding.

  The degree of cover required is getting rather large.  Flying "under
  the radar" was possible 5 yaers ago, but is almost impossible now.
  At least, it is rather difficult.

> >
> > 5.   What is the dealer thinking when he slides the shuffle card in -
> > why do some dealers routinely go only 65% while others go much deeper?
> 
> I expect the deeper ones are more sympathetic to counters - or just lazy and
> want to shuffle less.
>

  I doubt that dealers are sympathtic to counters.  Dealers, as a group,
  are sympathetic, at times, to good tippers.  Dealers are also often 
  lazy, or appear to be.   As a group, dealers would rather be doing 
  something else, so many just don't care.

-- 
Harvey J. Cohen, Ph. D.
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