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Tips to Extend Your Card Counting Career
As a potential card counter there are ways to act and things you can do when you play that will help to keep you playing. After all, wouldn't it be foolish to spend hours a day for several months learning basic strategy and card counting techniques only to be barred from playing on your first casino visit?
Professional card counters have to be actors to survive. They must sell the pit crew on the fact that they are just regular players.
They do the things that normal players do. They cheer when they win a nice bet. They ask for comps, apply for comp cards if offered. They draw less attention to themselves. They tip the dealers. I will get arguments on tipping from many card counters. They say they are giving away their hard earned money for no reason. I disagree. Tipping makes up most of a dealers income and tips are appreciated. I've been tipping them my entire counting career and have never been barred. I have been counting cards for 31 years and feel that tipping the dealers has had something to do with that longevity.
As I see it, if the dealer has an idea that you are a card counter and you don't tip there is a good chance that he will report his or her suspicions. But, if you tip they more than likely will not. Ask yourself, why would the dealer take money away from his family by turning you in? Wouldn't he be killing the goose that lays the golden egg?
Another thing you can do to keep the heat off is to simply enjoy yourself, have a good time. Show a sense of humor, talk to other players , the dealer, the floor person, keep it light. if you stare intently at the cards and never acknowledge anyone else you may be branded as a counter. It is necessary to be able to hold a conversation at times, not every moment, while counting cards.
Keep your sessions short, two hours is an ideal session. You may be able to stretch it to four hours, depending on casino conditions. As soon as you make a mistake you should leave. You may be getting tired and tired people make mistakes and I'm sure that you know that mistakes cost you money. Now, two hours is an ideal time for more than one reason. You should be fresh and alert for two hours. Equally as important is that for an hour before the pit crew goes home until an hour after the next shift starts the pit crew is usually bogged down with paperwork and has little time to watch the games in progress. So, how can you work this to your advantage? Simple, all you need to do is discretely find out when the pit crew changes shifts. Then play your two hour session for one hour prior to the shift change to one hour after the shift change. Don't confuse the pit crew shift with the dealers shift, they may be different.
Another thing you should do is, when you are winning discretely take chips off of the table so it appears that you aren't winning as much as you are. The best time to do this is when the dealers change. There is no possible way that the dealers can keep track of your exact winnings and the less you are winning the less heat. A warning, don't get carried away with this though, one or two green chips every dealer change is plenty.
If possible, try to play at a table where you are not the biggest bettor. The biggest bettor will always get the most attention from the pit crew. Also, play with green and red chips if your big bet is $200 or less. The reason is that the dealer is required to announce to the pit crew when a player raises his bet by using black chips. You may have heard the dealer shout out "black in action". If you use green chips they don't announce it.
Use these tips and your card counting career should be long and fruitful.
As a potential card counter there are ways to act and things you can do when you play that will help to keep you playing. After all, wouldn't it be foolish to spend hours a day for several months learning basic strategy and card counting techniques only to be barred from playing on your first casino visit?
Professional card counters have to be actors to survive. They must sell the pit crew on the fact that they are just regular players.
They do the things that normal players do. They cheer when they win a nice bet. They ask for comps, apply for comp cards if offered. They draw less attention to themselves. They tip the dealers. I will get arguments on tipping from many card counters. They say they are giving away their hard earned money for no reason. I disagree. Tipping makes up most of a dealers income and tips are appreciated. I've been tipping them my entire counting career and have never been barred. I have been counting cards for 31 years and feel that tipping the dealers has had something to do with that longevity.
As I see it, if the dealer has an idea that you are a card counter and you don't tip there is a good chance that he will report his or her suspicions. But, if you tip they more than likely will not. Ask yourself, why would the dealer take money away from his family by turning you in? Wouldn't he be killing the goose that lays the golden egg?
Another thing you can do to keep the heat off is to simply enjoy yourself, have a good time. Show a sense of humor, talk to other players , the dealer, the floor person, keep it light. if you stare intently at the cards and never acknowledge anyone else you may be branded as a counter. It is necessary to be able to hold a conversation at times, not every moment, while counting cards.
Keep your sessions short, two hours is an ideal session. You may be able to stretch it to four hours, depending on casino conditions. As soon as you make a mistake you should leave. You may be getting tired and tired people make mistakes and I'm sure that you know that mistakes cost you money. Now, two hours is an ideal time for more than one reason. You should be fresh and alert for two hours. Equally as important is that for an hour before the pit crew goes home until an hour after the next shift starts the pit crew is usually bogged down with paperwork and has little time to watch the games in progress. So, how can you work this to your advantage? Simple, all you need to do is discretely find out when the pit crew changes shifts. Then play your two hour session for one hour prior to the shift change to one hour after the shift change. Don't confuse the pit crew shift with the dealers shift, they may be different.
Another thing you should do is, when you are winning discretely take chips off of the table so it appears that you aren't winning as much as you are. The best time to do this is when the dealers change. There is no possible way that the dealers can keep track of your exact winnings and the less you are winning the less heat. A warning, don't get carried away with this though, one or two green chips every dealer change is plenty.
If possible, try to play at a table where you are not the biggest bettor. The biggest bettor will always get the most attention from the pit crew. Also, play with green and red chips if your big bet is $200 or less. The reason is that the dealer is required to announce to the pit crew when a player raises his bet by using black chips. You may have heard the dealer shout out "black in action". If you use green chips they don't announce it.
Use these tips and your card counting career should be long and fruitful.
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