Andy Bloch

Cards were dealt.

I got a pair of 10s.

She got a pair of 10s.

These are, by the way, great hands.

You're trying to make 21, and we each had 20.

The dealer had one card down, and the card that was showing was a 5, one of the worst possible hands for the dealer.

Robin and I talked about what happened next on the bus ride home.

And then the dealer ended up dealing herself 21.

It was also a five.

So then she had 10 and then she dealt herself another card and it was an ace.

21.

We should have split our tens.

You would have gotten that ace.

Okay, non-Blackjack people, splitting tens is something that nobody would ever do except a card counter.

It's what gets the woman kicked out of the casino in Jack Hitt's story.

At Atlantic City, they don't kick you out, but if they spot you counting cards, they start shuffling the deck after every hand, or they come over and tell you that you can only bet the minimum bet at the table, which is basically telling you, go away.

But once Robin brought up this idea that we should have split our tens, it was hard to let it go.

I would have gotten the A's.

Yeah.

It would have stopped her from getting the A's.