Originally Posted by BoSox View Post
KewlJ, the one point that we have all heard a thousand times and I canno't fully grasp is the extreme small amount of barrings you have experienced in 15 years of playing in Vegas. We all know the story of you playing short sessions with a rather large rotation of casinos. You often enter and leave without buy in's and cash outs as well as playing for the most part unrated.

When you have often told various forums that you are often recognized by someone in the pit, but that you know you will be allowed to play because that employee knows full well that you will be leaving shortly and is not worth the trouble of barring you, in my mind that is beyond comprehension, especially when fifteen years are involved. I am asking everyone on the board does KJ's story stands the test of credibility?
One more thing BoSox. You learn to read people.

A little story from years ago just after I moved to Vegas. I fell in love with The M resort. They had good blackjack games at the time, table were not crowded during weekdays, had a nice buffet (at the time). I just really liked that place. And unfortunately over-played it.

They were tolerant of me and I sort of became a regular. Several times a week and worst of all usually the same time of day, late morning/early afternoon on weekdays so I could hit that buffet. And I saw the same dealers and pit. Like I said they were tolerant of me, more than I would have expected. One pit guy in particular seemed to really like me. He had an Irish last name and was clearly of Irish decent as I am. He also had a Philadelphia connection although he had been in Vegas for a long time and at that times I regularly wore hats and shirts with Philly sports team logos. I have gotten away from that as it became too identifying.

So like I said the guy was just super friendly every time I saw him. Nice warm :good morning: and always lots a small talk chit chat about almost anything under the sun. So one day I come in, buy in and start playing. He comes over and I say good morning so and so. I get a very cold "Morning" back from him. 10 minutes later I was backed off with a rather weird incident of a guy in a suit following me around the casinos as I ate and did other things. I mean I knew that backoff was coming as soon as I got that cold "morning" from my pit "buddy".

That was sort of my first experience with reading someone. And I have gotten far, far better in the last 8-9 years. I am almost never surprised by a back off anymore. I almost always know when one might be coming. Rarely am I caught by surprise. And that means I am able to avoid most of them. Even new pit folks that I encounter, you can read them and just get a feel for them almost immediately. I don't think this a special gift or talent, just experience at play. So this is a big part of why I experience relatively few backoffs now a days. To get one, it is almost like I have had to have read someone wrong and/or been surprised by them.