any game is 'beatable' over the short term, not the long term.

last trip to vegas i was playing plo@aria. i was loosing bigtime. prolly down 2500$ in one hour at 1$/3$ plo.

i had 300$ left in my pocket for the day and decided im too tilted to play this tupid small plo game for any longer and headed to the roulette table with the intention of going to my hotelroom if i loose this.

i told the dealer to give me 3 blacks and put them on 21,24,27 and it really hits 27.

was the craziest i ever witnessed i really hit it with 3 numbers playing haha 3700$ and i went of to my hotelroom at 4am.

Thanks now we can end this thread after this revelation,

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what about this guy

http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/n...cc4c03286.html

In Cincinnati last fall. I was there with a couple guys doing some drinking and brought 500 to play some bj. I quickly lost 200. I pulled out 200 more and over the course of a few hours that turned into 7000. I was hammered. I made two bets of 1k at the end and lost them both. That was a sign so I colored up and left the casino up about 4500. Good times. Now they send me offers every week.

New screen name but this was me above. Won 10.9K at PLO at Cherokee. Took $900 to the BJ table, now live cards, cashed this in 1 shoe.

I wear comfortable jeans (being a big guy) and am able to fit 40k in hundos in one front pocket (deep pockets though). A 10k bundle is pretty thin tbh... (No thinly veiled brag intended)...

I was in a training program early days working at a casino. My first day of training in the cage, a Tuesday night, I'm working the retail line when a very drunk man stumbled up to my window, reaches into his hoodie pockets, and just starts shoveling orange and yellow chips onto my counter. Uhm, Supervisor!

This guy had wandered into high limit two hours ago and bought in for $1k, cashed out for $117K. He was adamant that he did not want a check for his winnings, but rather wanted them in cash. He then refused any kind of offer for a container, rather wanting two stacks of 50K in hundreds (a stack of 50K is difficult to hold in one hand). He wanted to walk through the casino just carrying two bricks of cash. Finally his brother convinced him to accept two manila envelopes to at least put the money in. The brother also got him to let a security guard escort him back to his room. I heard he tipped the guard $100. $0 for the cashier though

[QUOTE=RedThunder;40007186]New screen name but this was me above. Won 10.9K at PLO at Cherokee. Took $900 to the BJ table, now live cards, cashed this in 1 shoe.

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You count or just purely off the streak and parlaying bets?

And who the hell tips the cashier? Swear to god, everyone gets a job and then believes in getting tipped for it. You're swapping chips for cash and takes 2 sec lol.

I tip the cashier if I have won and an extra chip is floating about, good kharma.

Put me in the "white chip for the cashier" camp. The only time I didn't do it was the time I got felted.

I really hope this awesome thread doesn't turn into a tipping thread, but I want to insert my two cents. I view a cage cashier as akin to a bank teller. And there's no way I'm tipping a bank teller.

While I'm here, a poker buddy of mine once bought a brand new Olds Cutlass in the early '90's from a blackjack win at Aladdin. He always buys in for $100-300 and starts at $25/hand, pressing his bets after a win. Towards the end of his run, he was up to $21,000 and was at $500/hand. He went on a small downswing and picked up $17,000 ahead. He's been trying to recreate that run for 20 years with no luck.

Back to black jack runs... I always wondered myself while at the table what I would allow my bets to go to. Same thing in craps.

Lets say at BJ I sit with $1,000 and I play 2 hands at $30-100 a hand (this is my standard). I try to double up and then play til I lose a few hands and I am done. If I get stuck, I rebuy and try to get even. This is a recipe for disaster and almost always guarantees a loss (why I dont play anymore).

If I did buy in for $1,000 and ran it to $3,000, I would consider that a great run and probably quit. But I will never take advantage of that huge once in a life upswing. I dont think I can let myself bet $1,000 a hand or more for many hands. If I bet $1,000 and won, I would make the next bet smaller, not larger. I guess I just dont have that in me. Im a nit!

Same with craps, which I used to play a lot. I would bet the pass line and take 5x odds and then play 5-8-9 or whatever the inside numbers were. I would bet $80 inside ($25-5, $30-8, $25-9) and then I would press up to $35 or $42 and then $50 or $60 and then $70 or $72 and then $100 or $90 and then rarely get passed there. One time I got to a $900 9 and a $600 6 but I took my bets down but the shooter continued to roll for 20 min. I thought to myself every time a number hit how much I was losing out on and what I could have pressed to. But again, I am a nit.

You cant beat the house UNLESS you get that one hand or that one run and you arent afraid to ride it and press it to the max. Then never play again! Most people play to try and hit that run. I play to try to make a few bucks and/or get even. Its a different mindset.

Cap,

The last paragraph is so true. If I buyin for 500 I am happy with 2-3k. If I was drunk I would probably start increasing my bets until I got to 10k or 0. My thought process is that a 1500 win is great but not really that much money. But a 10k win is some serious money.

Pretty recently I was in Hollywood, Fl. I took 15k down there to play poker and my backer was there to put me into tourneys and bigger cash games. First day I lose 5k playing Baccarat. Next day I'm stuck 9k playing BJ and run it up to where I'm even for trip. Last night I was there I was leaving the casino and sit at a $25 min/$1000 max table with a 1k and run it to 5k in about 2 hours. Went to leave and stopped in high limit room (100 min bet, 5k max) and said I was only gonna lose 500 and leave. Ran the 500 to up over 100k. Everyone there said it was the sickest thing they'd ever seen.

But how? How can you justify large bets? I am saying bets of 5k+... it would seem hard to do after being stuck. I guess some people just have that mindset.

I think once i got to 10k i would walk away.

I was quite heavy on bj before I gave it up (local casino, csms, yeah) for poker and never hit / seen the likes you hear in this and the roulette thread. My best saw me up just over a hundo, worst was losing $100 in the matter of 10mins (while waiting for 1/2nl). I've read a lot of success, sad degen and just downright funny stories coming outta vegas though.

Press For Success!

ive done £400 into £10,000 into £0 twice, I didnt learn the first time

When i used to play on empire poker, sometime in 2005, i was working construction for $16/hour. I had around $2,000 in my poker account and started playing BJ on the $200 max bet tables on empire. I was using a martingale system with a $25 base bet. I ran my account up to around $12,000 in the span of 1 week. I though i would never lose.

Then i lost all $12k the next week and deposited another $2k and lost that. I wanted to crawl under a rock and die.

First time i was in vegas i played a $1500 WSOP event and min cashed for ~3,000.

I immediately took my winnings to the high stakes room at Flamingo, that sounds lame even as i type it now, and start playing $200 a hand. The real degen though was this older tourist looking guy in khaki shorts and a tommy bahama shirt acroos the room from me playing 2 spots at $5k a spot. He must of had `$250k on the table when i walked in.

So i am playing for no more then 10 minutes and all of a sudden the old guy punches his table so hard that my dealer jumps while she is pitching the card to me and flings the card 5 feet past the rail on my table. I instantly look over at the old dude and see him playing the same two spots but for only $500 a hand with no more than a rack of black chips behind. He walked out a couple minutes later with no chips while mumbling incoherently to himself.

I obv lost my $3k but probably did not feel as bad as that poor old bastard that just lost a ferrari....

S

funny story from last week at a local casino..
i'm playing with 4-5 other people at the table betting 100-200
the guy to my left who's at 3rd base is playing 25-100 and at this casino you can surrender only if your minimum bet is above 100, so he's not qualified to surrender..
anyway out of nowhere comes a gentlemen who asks the guy to my left if he can bet with him and he says sure and he puts down 3k underneath the guy's 50 dollar bet the table goes a little silent and the cards come out..
they get a hard 14 against a dealer's 10 and the guy betting little asks the guy who just bet 3k what to do and he says he doesn't care much but he's leaning towards a surrender.. he says ok but the dealer says they can't surrender since the bet that counts is the 50 dollar bet and floorman is called over
apparently the guy betting big is a regular and although they are not allowed to do it they honor his request and let them surrender.. what was the next card? a 7 lol

lmao...ouch.

Although the dealer would have pulled a 21, obviously.

Don't bet 3k if you're too scared to hit a 14 vs dealer 10