Originally Posted by tableplay View Post
Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
Casinos never tell you why they are taking any action. If you ask why you are being backed off or 86ed, they will always say something like "management decision". They will never say something like, because you are counting cards. About the closest you will get is something like "your game is too strong" or "you are too good a player". So you are never going to get a precise reason for anything.
There's quite a spectrum when it comes to BJ back offs. A couple decades (and some change) back, at Caesars Tahoe, I was told I couldn't play 2 decks or less, but I was welcome to the shoe games. I left the property.
One of my favorite things is when a casino has a rule that if you spread to 2 hands you HAVE to bet double on each hand. If you spread to 3 hands you HAVE to bet triple on each hand. So spreading horizontally to 3 hands automatically meant a 1-9 spread by their rules. I used to do this at a double deck game at Eastside Cannery (now permanently closed). There was another place that I played early part of my Vegas existence that had that policy but I can't remember who it was.

My favorite part of the whole thing was the act that I employed. When the count was appropriate, I would just spread my 1 unit to 3 hands and wait for either the dealer or pit to tell me I had to triple my bet and then act unhappy that they were making me raise my bet 9 times in a positive count.