Please help...

Just for fun, I've been trying a simple strategy of increasing my bet $5 after every loss and decreasing $10 after every win. Using this method along with the Basic Strategy, I've made several hundred dollars every single time I've played on every different simulator and game I can find. Then, I finally tried using real money on a video blackjack game and lost $300 in about 15 minutes...

Did I just have a bad losing streak, or are the odds signifcantly different on real video machines vs. online simulators?

See - http://www.blackjackinfo.com/bb/showthread.php?t=1009

Thanks for the info, but that doesn't actually answer my question of whether or not the odds are that different in real video blackjack vs. trainer games or just blackjack games with fake money...

They should be the same odds, however some online casinos jack the odds in the players favor when they are first playing for free. The kind of swing-anomoly that you experienced is very common. zg

PS - Hey, I know - next time play the free video until you have had a big negative swing (so you're due for win) and then play for real!

I think you might have been joking about that ZG...but I always do that! <LOL>