CHOOSING A SEAT

You are now ready to sit down and lay your money on the spot The final question in our casino-to-chair sequence is where to sit Go back and briefly review the illustration of a Blackjack table before reading on. Since the dealer gives the players cards fron his left to right (your right to left), first base is the seat farthesi to the right. First base plays first. The last position, seat 7, i; called third base and plays last.

Seat 7 should be avoided. Although it allows a little more time to think than the other seats, seat 7 has two disadvantages thav overshadow the value of the extra time. First, the line of vision i; poor from seat 7. You are right on the rope off to one side. If it i; a down game, there is little chance you will see anyone's hand a they tip their cards to look at them. Counting a hand as it is laic down and quickly picked up across the table is also more difficult Second, the dealer is more suspicious of a player in seat 7 than u any other position because it is the preferred seat of most cheater, and some counters. Remember the man who picked up the dealer's stack of tips at El Casino in Freeport? The dealer migh, never have seen him if he hadn't been watching seat 7 carefully.

Seat 1 has advantages and disadvantages. The greatest disad vantage is that seat 1 is under the gun. You are always somewho rushed because you must play first. However, some profession~ actually prefer seat 1 because the dealer is less suspicious p them. Seat 1 is also next to the dealing shoe so that you can actti ally see inside the shoe and cart get a very accurate estimaten the number of cards left there and how far the game will go be fore hitting the red cut marker.

Seat 1 is the best if you can count cards very quickly. An v game is ideal since you know every card that has been played i dealt (except the dealer's down card) when you must make yo decision. If you sit farther down the table, there are double doi cards you may not see. Fortunately, most of the casinos in 1 world (outside of Nevada) deal an up game.

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