Anyway im sitting down at the blackjack table's at Harrahs...

 

Just hanging out drinking free beers and playing.. This guy with a heavy... Russian accent comes over to the table, asking me if the dealer is any good, cause they just switched dealers as he walked over. I said yeah she was good the last time around.. anyway he sits down and starts playing for a little bit, then he gets a call on his cell phone. He takes the phone out of his pocket and begins to talk to someone, the dealer said "sir, you can't use that here at the table".. so he responds "what is this a concentration camp (laughs)" then says "what am I in a German Nazi Concentration camp, I cant use my phone here". The dealer responds in a low voice "well you are in Atlantic City", a few minutes later when he got off the phone he took his chips and left.

 

Just find it funny man, cause i've dealt with a lot of people fresh over here from another country. They aren't concerned at all about using freedom of speech, no matter how fucked up with what they are saying is. Meanwhile we as Americans feel it is our duty to be politically correct all the time, and when things are mentioned, can easily become offensive for no reason at all.

lol. typical russian jewish thing to say.... but come on, who is that offensive to?

 

Nazi's? =P

 

 

But I do think it is totally stupid to ask how the dealer is.... like they are fuggin doing anything. Gambling is a tax on the poor. Its a game , where long term, you are going to lose apx 2% of your money if you are playing proper statistics. When I used to go to AC, years ago, and would play BJ, I am more worried about people splitting 10's, and not hitting 15 or 16 because they have a hunch.

lol. typical russian jewish thing to say.... but come on, who is that offensive to?

 

Nazi's? =P

 

 

But I do think it is totally stupid to ask how the dealer is.... like they are fuggin doing anything. Gambling is a tax on the poor. Its a game , where long term, you are going to lose apx 2% of your money if you are playing proper statistics. When I used to go to AC, years ago, and would play BJ, I am more worried about people splitting 10's, and not hitting 15 or 16 because they have a hunch.

 

yeah splitting 10's is stupid, for the most part I make out about an extra 100 to 200 bucks when i go down, but I dont spend alot of money and im to afraid to play big when I go down there. I'll usually play the minimum unless the shoe is going well.

lol. typical russian jewish thing to say.... but come on, who is that offensive to?

 

Nazi's? =P

 

 

But I do think it is totally stupid to ask how the dealer is.... like they are fuggin doing anything. Gambling is a tax on the poor. Its a game , where long term, you are going to lose apx 2% of your money if you are playing proper statistics. When I used to go to AC, years ago, and would play BJ, I am more worried about people splitting 10's, and not hitting 15 or 16 because they have a hunch.

 

yeah splitting 10's is stupid, for the most part I make out about an extra 100 to 200 bucks when i go down, but I dont spend alot of money and im to afraid to play big when I go down there. I'll usually play the minimum unless the shoe is going well.

 

You only split 10's if the dealer shows a 2, 3,4,5.

lol. typical russian jewish thing to say.... but come on, who is that offensive to?

 

Nazi's? =P

 

 

But I do think it is totally stupid to ask how the dealer is.... like they are fuggin doing anything. Gambling is a tax on the poor. Its a game , where long term, you are going to lose apx 2% of your money if you are playing proper statistics. When I used to go to AC, years ago, and would play BJ, I am more worried about people splitting 10's, and not hitting 15 or 16 because they have a hunch.

 

yeah splitting 10's is stupid, for the most part I make out about an extra 100 to 200 bucks when i go down, but I dont spend alot of money and im to afraid to play big when I go down there. I'll usually play the minimum unless the shoe is going well.

 

You only split 10's if the dealer shows a 2, 3,4,5.

 

umm I dont think your supposed to split 10's at all.. according to the book anyway.

http://www.edcollins.com/blackjack/yahoo-bj-4.htm

 

Never Split 10's

 

Another big error I see all the time is the splitting of 10's. Once again, only if you are counting cards and only if the deck is very rich in 10's and even then only if the dealer has a very bad upcard should you even consider splitting 10's. 20 is a good hand!!! Why break it up??

 

Think about this for a moment... you don't get good hands all that often! When you do you certainly don't wish to make it any easier on the dealer by breaking up your good hand!

 

I asked a girl the other day why she did this and her answer was, "Because I have a chance to win more money." Hey, she's right! On one occasion she kept splitting her 10's, seven times on one hand alone, and therefore had $7,000 dollars riding on that particular hand! Obviously, she now has a greater chance to win $7,000 than she did if she had not split in the first place. (Her chances of winning $7,000 before she started splitting were zero, since she only had her $1,000 out there!) However what she fails to realize is her chance of losing $7,000 also increase! And with a bunch of bad hands out there now, her chances of losing are now greater than her chances of winning! In fact in this case, she was splitting 10's when the dealer had a 9 up which made it even worse!

 

As it turned out, she lost almost every hand when the dealer flipped over a 10 for a total of 19. Her original 20 would have been a winner. But hey, like she said, she "had a chance" to win more money.

 

Never split 10's. It's a sucker play. The people who you see do it almost always have a large negative total in front of them. Doesn't that alone tell you something?? I've accumulated $303,000 in the past couple of weeks playing blackjack at Yahoo! (I currently have $343,000 but about $40,000 of that was earned at the poker tables, before blackjack was available) and I have yet to split 10's!

yeah, you never split 10's.

 

You double down on a 10 if the dealer shows low cards.

You double down on a 10 if the dealer shows low cards.

 

 

Yep, anything 6 or lower.

 

Of course, you are still likely to leave with much less money than you came with anyhow.

 

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