The Pit Boss
While playing on the tables in Vegas you will always see one of those nasty pit bosses keeping an eye on the play at each table. When I say nasty there really only doing their job. Whilst playing blackjack at Broadwalk next to the Monte Carlo we were playing at a $5.00 table with around 2 other people playing. The others were just playing $5.00 a hand and looked as if they had lost a bit. After around 15 minutes I was up around $90.00 which was good for me, I turned around and this guy had joined the table and put $100 down on the table playing one hand. He won and doubled his money, he then placed the $200 on the table and won again this time with a blackjack. Meanwhile I was putting down $15 a hand and winning as well.
The guy then changed his chips and joined us at the table and carried on winning. As soon as this started happening the pit boss was over and was giving us all dirty looks, at this time the guy next to me who had started with $100 had $1200 next to him I was up around $200. I had all these $5 chips at the table and I was starting to play $25 a hand so I thought it would be a good idea to change the chips into $25 to make it easer for me to know how much I had. I asked the dealer if she could change my chips into $25, the bit boss butted in and said you want to leave the table, I replied no just want to change these to $25 , he replied you want to change these and leave? I was not allowed to change my chips they wanted me off the table and they wanted the guy next to me off. I kept on playing for a bit lost around $50 of my winning and then left. My advise to you is If you go in broadwalk casino is not to play. Their bad losers, what’s a few hundred bucks to a casino anyway? Go to the Monte Carlo during the week and play at there $5 tables, the dealers and pit bosses are a lot friendlier.
December 13th, 2005 at 2:21 pm
I write about gambling material and can tell you why the pit boss was so unfriendly.
When Blackjack card counters play in teams they will station players at tables throughout the casino. They count cards while making minimal bets. When the deck gets very positive they then use some sort of hand signal to notify another player (called a “big player”). This new player will walk up to the table and usually make a large bet. When they win they frequently continue the large bets until the deck goes negative. If the deck stays good they may stay awhile.
The gent who sat near you appeared to be a “big player” and the pit boss obviously thought you were his accomplice.
They treat card counters very aggressively as they can no longer have them arrested but have lost huge sums of money to them in the past.