Playing: Making Use of Dealer Tallies
On shoe games in virtually all casinos, the dealer tallies up and at nounces the total of each player’s hand as the player draws more cards. Not many people who think they can play blackjack know this. Make use of this audible while feigning disinterest in cards other than your own whenever possible. If you see or hear that a player has a total of 14 , and then after asking for a card the dealer announces that the player new total is 19, you know a 5 must have been dealt. A crafty one is a situation in which you notice another player has a total of 12. If the player draws a card and the dealer almost immediately collects the cards and the bet, you know without even looking that the last card dealt had to be a 10. Add to your running count as appropriate. Anytime in Blackjack tournaments you can establish lack of interest in other players’ cards while still maintaining a correct count—especially in front of a boss—is a golden opportunity that should never be passed up.
