Originally Posted by
Tasha
Yes well, I read what mDawg wrote and he is saying that he plays HI LIMIT TABLES and PRIVATE BLACKJACK TABLES and you wouldn't know about those anyway, would you? He is saying that the penetration is different at those tables, better. And maybe even the rules. You know nothing about high end play you said you play low limit tables only, so this is just another example of where you think you know what is going on but maybe you don't. ....
Tasha, I don't think I know what is going on,
I know what is going on. While I have been playing much higher stakes (for me) this summer on the strip, $100 tables spreading just shy of $2000, my opinions are only based partly on my experiences. This is my business....it is what I do for a living and I make it my business to know as much about as I can about conditions and what is tolerated, where and when. I network with numerous other players, some playing much higher stakes that I do and I am friends with 2 different people that work the pits, one a high level pit manager at a strip casino, who so happens was at my homes yesterday to watch football.
This idea that Las Vegas doesn't care about card counters that Mdawg has stated several times in the last few days is
NUTS! Players that play many destinations will all tell you that in general, Las Vegas is one of the sweatier places as far as card counting
and especially the double deck games Mdawg is talking about. Las Vegas is super paranoid about card counting....period! The only way a player can achieve longevity in this town is to do their homework and learn and understand exactly what is tolerated, and when and where.
Mdawg is trying to tell us that at higher limits, Las Vegas just relaxes all this paranoia and say "
yeah it is fine, spread as much as you like". It is just more nonsense and not the way Las Vegas works. My pit friend who works the strip says at the limits being described, even the tiniest spread is scrutinized to be sure a player is
randomly varying bets and in no way spreading with the count. What Mdawg is describing is just not going to be tolerated in Las Vegas.
I even had my pit friend read some of Mdawgs posts yesterday and in regards to private tables, he said, yes a very high limit player can get a private table and negotiate some better rules, which I think we all knew. But, and his exact words were,
"only after casino personnel are 100% positive the player is not moving money with the count or playing with another advantage".
This directly contradicts what Mdawg claims that he is blatantly counting and
"no one seems to care". This crap is the same kind of nonsense that he claimed a while ago when he said
"his blackjack bans for card counting were overturned". Once a casino is convinced a player is card counting, it is extremely rare they overturn a ban. Maybe if the player, (or players spouse) were losing much more money playing other games (like baccarat), than the small amount the won card counting, but other than something like that, it just doesn't happen.
The thing about all Mdawgs stories and claims is either they are all made up or,
and this may very well be...he is leaving out key parts like the losing. If there was significant losing that he wasn't telling about, it would explain most of his things that are unexplainable, like why the casinos comp him for months at a time and why they lifted a blackjack ban. But as he tells these stories and makes these claims, they are not true. It is NOT how Las Vegas works.