Blackjack – Opposition Betting 4
About the only time I might be suspected of counting is when I make my jump from a nickel to a couple hundred bucks. Before and after that, I usually raise and lower my bets in reverse.
A lot of times I'll jump my bets around according to whether I'm winning or losing. Often, I mix up my colors and have reds, greens and black in the same stack. It drives dealers nuts.
Part of my method is to look like I just don't have much of a method. Sometimes I bet high off the top of the shoe. For the most part, I play nickels with low counts and greens and blacks with high counts. When I make my big jump, I wait until the time seems right for it. If the count is high and I've only got a nickel riding on the bet, I'm likely to split fours or fives, or maybe stand on a twelve against a ten. After a play like that, dealers love to see you start playing with real money. You see, they know I've got the greens and blacks. I'm sitting there with half a rack of them in front of me. I don't make foolish plays when I'm betting high, though.
I've watched dozens of counters get 86'd. Most of them are young. They always spread from one to four. They're so easy to spot it's laughable. Sometimes I think my best camouflage is that I'm old and bald. My second best camouflage might be that I've got a lot of money. Counters look hungry. There's probably not much a young guy can do about this. But still, he can change his one-to-four spread to something that looks less intelligent. All the books say spread from 1 to 4 or 1 to 8. There's not a pit boss in Vegas who hasn't read most of these books. When you play like the books say, you're advertising your smarts.
One time I was sitting with two counters for about half an hour. During the course of that half hour, I'd placed bets as low as a nickel and as high as seven or eight hundred bucks. They were both spreading quarters from one-to-four. They keep nudging each other when I'd make a stupid play. Once I insured my natural at a low count. I had two nickels on the table. Then the true count went up to about +9 or +10 real fast. I hit my four-card sixteen against the dealer's five and busted. I guess these guys got brave then because both of them raised their next bets to eight chips. Frankly, I was having a hard time not laughing, myself. Their bets had been so identical since they'd sat down, they were like the Bobbsey Twins.
The pit boss jumped in at that point. He went through the discards and politely told these two guys to hit the road. They were upset. One of them remarked that it should be illegal for casinos to only deal to stupid players. The remark was directed at me. They ended up getting barred.
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Blackjack – Opposition Betting 3
The purpose of opposition betting is to get a large spread. The following is an explanation of how one Vegas pro gets away with it; I've changed enough details to protect his identity:
I've been playing blackjack for thirty years. For about the first twenty, I didn't know anything about counting. At one point, I tried to read Thorp's book but the system was beyond me. Revere's book became my bible because his point count system was powerful and so much easier. I still use it. By the time I'd started counting, I was well known in the casinos as a high roller. I was comped most everywhere and still am. My basic method of camouflage, once I'd started counting, was simply to keep playing as much as possible the way I'd always played.
I buy in at the craps table and usually spend my first ten or fifteen minutes playing craps for nickels. I'll often get a whole rack of chips—half quarters, half nickels. I never hide chips, or pocket chips, or try to look like I'm losing. I never did that before I was a counter, so why should I start now? Whether you're counting or not, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. When I lose a lot, I sulk around. I make a lot of noise about it when I win big. The only time I pocket chips is when I cash out. I'll go south with one or two blacks, and play them or cash them out later.
When I hit the blackjack tables, I start betting with nickels—two or three at a time. If the count starts going down, I'll bet even bigger—four or five nickels. If it keeps going down, I might push six to eight of them out there. As the count goes up, I use the reverse strategy. I'll go down to a single nickel and keep betting this way until my edge is up around 2%. Sometimes I'll go through a couple of shoes till I get a count like this.
Sometimes it happens right away. But when it does go up that high, I'll raise my bet from a single nickel to a stack of quarters in one jump. I'll just throw eight of 'em on the table like that. By this time, I'm already pegged as a non-counter because of all my stupid bets before. And if they don't have me pegged this way, they will soon. My strategy with the quarters is pretty much the same as my nickel strategy. If the count goes up, I just let my stack of quarters ride. While the count is this high, I make sure I've got a couple hundred bucks on the table. It's important to me not to raise my bet if the count goes up even higher. You see, I start raising it when the count's coming back down.
Dealers always change colors on you when you bet stacks of chips. If I win with eight quarters, he'll pay me off with a couple of blacks. The next stack of chips I push out there will have those blacks on the bottom. They think they're jacking up my bets by coloring me up! By the time my edge is down to 1% or so, I'll be making bets of $500 to $600. I'd say my average high bet is about $250 to $350. My average low bet is probably about $15 to $20.
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