blackjack tables
You notice an elevated room with a sign that says "Baccarat." But it looks like - from where we are standing - there are blackjack tables in that room as well. You are correct. Almost always there are several high- limit blackjack tables in the baccarat pit, or the "high limit pit" as it is sometimes called. These tables are likely minimum $100 per hand and up. The good: more hands per hour because of fewer players, and often games that use fewer decks, such as four or six, in a casino that normally offers only six or eight. The bad: the amount of scrutiny from casino personnel you are forced to play under. As you can imagine, they watch the $100 and $500 tables pretty closely. As a general rule, I try to avoid blackjack and Blackjack tournaments in the high limit pit for exactly this reason. But sometimes the lack of seats in the main casino or the lure of an empty six-deck game with great penetration (how far into the deck or deck the dealer deals) makes playing among the masses in the main casino almost impossible to endure. This is a case-by-case scenario.
And, of course, if I’m playing game called blackjack in the bac pit, my "act" is nothing short of an art form.
You notice the gleam of a spinning roulette wheel behind us, and we wander over to the nearest table - one packed with a crowd of onlookers. The electronic display shows that the last nine numbers that have come out have all been red. On the table layout, there’s a mountain of’, chips on black. Happens every time. A bunch of one color comes out, and the opposite color fills with chips. One guy even has several purple crammed on one corner of the betting square. A young man with a baseball cap is saying to his buddy how black has to come out. Unfortunately, nothing could be further from the truth of particular casino blackjack. As we now know, in no other casino game beside blackjack (and poker) does past history influence the future. The tenth spin has just as good a chance of being red again as it does black, since there are as many red numbers in the roulette wheel as there are black. Yet everyone at the table seems convinced that sooner or later a black number will come out. And they’re right. Only there’s no way of knowing when "sooner" or "later" will be - unlike blackjack, of course, wherein a preponderance of low cards usually results in a preponderance of high cards at some later point in the deal.
