When you drop 60 bucks in less than 3 minutes playing Blackjack, it's time for a strategic withdrawal and a re-evaluation of your personal risk-reward paradigm. So I cashed in and decided to write it off with a blog post, thus making it a tax-deductible learning opportunity. Don't you wish you could write off your gambling losses like that? I stopped at the tables at the Bonanza, in North Reno, just after lunch, and got fleeced. I'm not saying I got cheated or anything, the dealer was just hot that's all. No big deal, this kind of thing sometimes happens. Some of you might think that I walked away too early, that only spending three minutes (six hands) at the table is not enough to determine how things are going to go. To that I call bullshit. I have a hard and fast rule that if at any point during your session you lose 5 Hands in a row, you should move to another table or quit. Since there was only one table open I opted for quitting. Losing six hands in a row...
A 25 year casino surveillance veteran will peel back the curtain of "the eye in the sky". I will let you know what they look for, what they don't and how you can use my knowledge to help you win more, and more often at your next trip to Vegas or Reno.