betting all 7 spots if allowed

[The Seer]

New guy here. Nice forum

I read a book that related a story of a man who acted drunk and bought many hundreds of black chips. It was a single deck game. He bet wildly. He put one chip on first base, 2 on the next and so on and 7 on third base. He would order drinks and talk loudly. He would split his first, second or third base hand if possible vs anything, even dealer ten.

What he was doing, I guess was seeing the max cards on the one unit hands and then playing carefully on the bigger hands. He won many thousands and did not color up. On a bathroom trip, he left with his chips.

Is this just a story or could it have happened?

[Sonny]

From the details you’ve given, it is either just a story or he was very lucky. This type of depth charging isn't very profitable, and the bad decisions made on the early hands would wipe out any advantage you would get on the later hands.

-Sonny-

[The Seer]

thank you.

[chichow]

I've seen a guy at the Wynn play all spots on DD.

They wouldn't let him play by himself, so he had his friend sit down and he basically told his friend to play with his money with his instructions.

Eastern European / Russian something...

also lost like 35,000 in 1/2 hour.

[zengrifter]

Originally Posted by Sonny

From the details you’ve given, it is either just a story or he was very lucky. This type of depth charging isn't very profitable, and the bad decisions made on the early hands would wipe out any advantage you would get on the later hands.

I think its a legitimate form of depth-charging, though not the best form.
Its definatley a form of DP when you are limited to one-round of 1D. zg

[EasyRhino]

The story is from Ian Anderson's Burning the Tables in Las Vegas, I think.

I haven't studied up much on depth charging, but I'd be worried about the advantage gained on the last, 7 unit hand, compared with the cost of the 25 units played on the other spots.

[jack,jackson]

What if you played Min on the first 5 hands, and perhaps the Max on the 6th and 7th hand's. That might give you an edge in a (-.19) or lower house edge game. Yes and no?

[shadroch]

Originally Posted by jack,jackson

What if you played Min on the first 5 hands, and perhaps the Max on the 6th and 7th hand's. That might give you an edge in a (-.19) or lower house edge game. Yes and no?

Don't most houses say two hands,double the minimum on each hand.

[EasyRhino]

I've seen some allow three hands, with the min being a very large multiple of table min.

[moo321]

If the rules were good, this could be slightly profitable. But why would you do it?