Last Friday at 10:45 pm our 8-table blackjack pit blew up after one guest hit three naturals in five hands, and suddenly the rail is five deep, seat-hoppers are bouncing, and two side-bet disputes pop at once. How are you keeping ratings tight and comps fair in that moment — Bravo updating on the fly with a pit clerk shadowing, or do you let the hands run and circle back so you don’t ice the energy?
When we get a 10:45 pm-style surge, we flip to a 10-minute heat mode: dealer calls a rating check at shuffle, I tag seats in Bravo with a timestamp note and freeze ratings on any seat-hoppers until they buy back in — , those bounces wreck comps. On side-bet disputes, I lock the last average, do a quick rack glance, and only adjust that single hand after so the streak doesn’t juice the whole session. “Bravo updating on the fly” works, but if the rail’s five deep I let two shuffles run and circle back with the notes — do you cap it at one shoe?
GE’s J79 is usually credited as the first production engine with variable stator vanes in the late ’50s, with an overall pressure ratio around 12–13:1 versus today’s about 50:1 cores; some folks point to the J57, but that was IGVs + bleed rather than true VSVs. From chasing museum placards, I’ve learned to scan for “VSV” not just “IGV” to avoid that mix‑up — quick reference: General Electric J79 - Wikipedia.
But seat‑hoppers drive me nuts, so in a 10:45 pm blow‑up we do a quick “snapshot at shuffle” average, lock it for 20 minutes in Bravo, and only bump if the bet holds for two shuffles. I park a floor on disputes and put our clerk on Move Player so the rating follows a guest once — after that we freeze and time‑stamp “SH” so comps stay tied to time‑in‑seat, not the rail hype. @c_mitchell77 your timestamp idea’s solid; the caveat is don’t chase every hand — let the shoe run and circle back with the locked snapshot to keep comps fair.