kewlJ

[redietz]

my partner and I played another low limit place, Jerry's Nugget every Tuesday. Actually played the CSM. 30 minutes play each week would result in a mailer containing weekly $50 match play and $50 free bet.

This is the first time I recall you admitting to having played blackjack as a rated player.

Have you mentioned this before, and were there other casinos where you played blackjack as a rated player, such that you provided your true identity to the casino?

Wouldn't that also expose your identity to the casinos where you played anonymously?

Since you asked a reasonable question, in a respectful manner, I will answer. (and probably regret doing so).

Playing anonymously (unrated) depends on the play. Sometimes you do....sometimes you dont.

With straight counting, I rarely played rated. No reason too. It identifies you and makes it easier for casinos to string together results and see what you are doing. Additionally, casinos just don't give you much for table play anymore.

But other plays, like the above-mentioned Jerry's nugget play or several other plays, especially promo type play, you HAVE to play rated. There is no play unless you are playing rated.

Additionally, all of our machine VP play was done playing rated. Had to be to get the mailers which made the play +EV.

I did need to be careful at casinos where I played blackjack unrated (card counting) and also played rated on machines. I always assumed that surveillance would follow me and piece it together, so I never went from one directly to the other. If I played rated and unrated at different activities on the same trip, it would be seperated by lunch or something.

That was very clever. Were you wearing a mask for the first session, the later session, or did you wear a mask for lunch and then a different mask for the later session?

This reminds me very much of the "when does a session end and another begin?" stop-loss argument. You play unrated, then tag lunch-time, then play rated going forward. Since surveillance is both blind and retarded, it works every time.

It's an odd storyline. About 95% of the time when making a wager, I didn't care if management knew who I was or whatever, but the 5% of the time I cared, it would never have occurred to me to make one wager clandestinely, stay in the same casino, then make another wager while announcing my identity an hour later.

I'm not saying the KewlJ(s) didn't do this. I'm saying it is a bizarre and potentially self-sabotaging way to operate. I can't say it would even occur to me; it's so bizarre.

Why would anyone even do this? Why operate this way? It's Russian roulette. It's only a matter of time and circumstance until you are nailed. I gotta ask Munchkin about the sanity of this; this storyline sticks out like the proverbial thumb you just hit with a narrative hammer.