Black Jack Ettiquete: Am I rude?

[snakekilla88]

I am about to play a poker tournament that will start in 5 minutes. I get a 5 dollar match play, sit down and plan on only playing 1 hand. Guy at the table is putting 75-100 on 1 hand. I am reading off a black jack strategy card. I get scolded by other players at the table for reading off my card and playing a 5 dollar hand while other players are spending lots more. I tell the guy to relax and leave the table.

[Photoc]

It's your money, and eventually the casino will get it all. Do whatever you want. It's not a team game and these morons that believe you mess up some mystical order of shoe, when it's random to begin with, will always talk [censored] unless they get a blackjack. Then they get pissed because they dropped to table minimum because you screwed up their cards and they got a blackjack. I hate bj players more than anything else. They're all too superstitious for their own good. Now if any of them actually knew there was mathwork involved in every decision, they'd probably never play the game again.

[Gotmilk]

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I am about to play a poker tournament that will start in 5 minutes. I get a 5 dollar match play, sit down and plan on only playing 1 hand. Guy at the table is putting 75-100 on 1 hand. I am reading off a black jack strategy card. I get scolded by other players at the table for reading off my card and playing a 5 dollar hand while other players are spending lots more. I tell the guy to relax and leave the table.

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Yeah you are sort of being a douchebag, but everyone has to be a douchebag sometimes. Just be polite and get out of there as soon as possible. It's one of those things where they are stupid for caring, but they do care and there isn't a whole lot of reason to at least respect that they care.

[Howard Beale]

Many large-bet regular BJ players will consider entering mid-shoe to make a small bet to be rude. It's stupid because your play doesn't affect them but that's the way it is. Next time find an empty table, a table with small bettors or wait until after the tourney when you can find these conditions if you can't find them right away.

Or you can just think 'To heck with them! I'll never see them again, anyway!' That works also.

[JasonR55]

My favourite play is making a small bet and hitting on something stupid like 18 or 19 and busting then watching the people who have big bets down get so upset because they think it makes a difference.. What can I say, I'm an ass

[hyde]

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I am about to play a poker tournament that will start in 5 minutes. I get a 5 dollar match play, sit down and plan on only playing 1 hand. Guy at the table is putting 75-100 on 1 hand. I am reading off a black jack strategy card. I get scolded by other players at the table for reading off my card and playing a 5 dollar hand while other players are spending lots more. I tell the guy to relax and leave the table.

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Yeah you are sort of being a douchebag, but everyone has to be a douchebag sometimes. Just be polite and get out of there as soon as possible. It's one of those things where they are stupid for caring, but they do care and there isn't a whole lot of reason to at least respect that they care.

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I've got a different read. THEY are all being sort of douchebags. What you are doing is harmless.
They are stupid for caring. There is no reason to respect their stupidity or their douchebaggieness.
Black Jack players are whacked. I think it is inherent.

[wegs the wegs]

Blackjack players have there things just like poker players do. I mean when playing live, the dealer makes a mistake and misdeals for whatever reason. How many players look to see what they have, then get upset when they see AA and have to turn them back in? It's the same thing in my mind.

[fluff]

If you're slowing down the game because you're reading the strategy card, then yeah, you are being at the very least an inconvenience.

[Witzo]

I'd much rather have someone playing by the book off a strat card then doing stupid crap like staying on 15 and 16 with a face card showing.
The mid-shoe entry thing is a touch subject. I always ask first before I do and it doesn't bother me to wait if people care. However whenever anyone asks me I dont care at all since the cards are all random. Even if your counting it doesn't matter, the count is still the same.

[octop]

How do you say this:

I'd much rather have someone playing by the book off a strat card then doing stupid crap like staying on 15 and 16 with a face card showing.

and then this?
I dont care at all since the cards are all random