What a weekend.
A regular poster on this forum who I correspond with quite a bit and who I met (out of a casino) recently invited me to share some nice comps earned largely by his wife's slot machine play, at Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville Connecticut. [She was a lucky 6 figure winner in 2008 apparently]
After I explained, that I felt there was no playable BJ there, and that I had avoided going there while playing 17 years at nearby Foxwoods Casino, just 5 miles away, I agreed to show up yesterday.
I decided that I would go and provide some free tutoring, while my wife would plunder the poker room.
We went. It was bizarre. This is what transpired:
I sat, without playing hardly a hand, for a total of over 13 hrs. My friend was amazed at my discipline, but I just said that I didn't want to gamble.
My friend and I counted down a LOT of 6 deck shoes (with Late Surrender); he using R.P.C. and I using ZEN.
We agreed that we NEVER saw T.C. +5. We once saw T.C. +4. We saw T.C. +3 several times. Most shoes went instantly negative and stayed there.
I make the game's e.v. -.33 off the top, so that we had miniscule edges at +2, and a still very small edge at +3.
I was able to toss in a ("honeybee") black chips on the rare occasions we hit (a floored) +3 -- so my spouse and I (combined) made almost $1,000.
I never fully realized that with such unreal penetration a really aggressive spread and a huge bankroll; are required. I never realized it because I rarely allow myself to play shoe games where the avergae dealer was cutting off fully 2 decks. Some were markedly worse. There were some that we agreeed were cutting anywhere from 1.8 to 1.9 decks; but on average the dealers were cutting off as close to 2 decks as they could.
Note: All cards are used for 3 days. When the tables are closed they put a random 52 cards in each box and put them away. When a table is opened they simply bring out a baf with 6 decks, remove the cards and count each boxful to see if there are 52 cards in it.
Shuffle is very slow and cumbersome. Dealers tend to be slow as well.
"Match the Dealer" has been added to at least most, if not all, tables to further slow down the game.
I know that if a casino wants to cheat the public by offering cold shoes there would be Aces and Faces missing. That would result in frequent high counts that would not regress toward toward the norm. That was not the case. High counts NEVER occurred.
I know better than to say that my friend was being cheated, but hmmm ? How many shoes did we play anyway ?
We saw no player win anything, but that is commonplace.
$25 and up tables were all "No Mid Entry" Shoes, but there were $15 tables this (Sunday) morning and they could be "wonged" at will, not that we saw any worthwhile True Counts.
A regular poster on this forum who I correspond with quite a bit and who I met (out of a casino) recently invited me to share some nice comps earned largely by his wife's slot machine play, at Mohegan Sun Casino in Uncasville Connecticut. [She was a lucky 6 figure winner in 2008 apparently]
After I explained, that I felt there was no playable BJ there, and that I had avoided going there while playing 17 years at nearby Foxwoods Casino, just 5 miles away, I agreed to show up yesterday.
I decided that I would go and provide some free tutoring, while my wife would plunder the poker room.
We went. It was bizarre. This is what transpired:
I sat, without playing hardly a hand, for a total of over 13 hrs. My friend was amazed at my discipline, but I just said that I didn't want to gamble.
My friend and I counted down a LOT of 6 deck shoes (with Late Surrender); he using R.P.C. and I using ZEN.
We agreed that we NEVER saw T.C. +5. We once saw T.C. +4. We saw T.C. +3 several times. Most shoes went instantly negative and stayed there.
I make the game's e.v. -.33 off the top, so that we had miniscule edges at +2, and a still very small edge at +3.
I was able to toss in a ("honeybee") black chips on the rare occasions we hit (a floored) +3 -- so my spouse and I (combined) made almost $1,000.
I never fully realized that with such unreal penetration a really aggressive spread and a huge bankroll; are required. I never realized it because I rarely allow myself to play shoe games where the avergae dealer was cutting off fully 2 decks. Some were markedly worse. There were some that we agreeed were cutting anywhere from 1.8 to 1.9 decks; but on average the dealers were cutting off as close to 2 decks as they could.
Note: All cards are used for 3 days. When the tables are closed they put a random 52 cards in each box and put them away. When a table is opened they simply bring out a baf with 6 decks, remove the cards and count each boxful to see if there are 52 cards in it.
Shuffle is very slow and cumbersome. Dealers tend to be slow as well.
"Match the Dealer" has been added to at least most, if not all, tables to further slow down the game.
I know that if a casino wants to cheat the public by offering cold shoes there would be Aces and Faces missing. That would result in frequent high counts that would not regress toward toward the norm. That was not the case. High counts NEVER occurred.
I know better than to say that my friend was being cheated, but hmmm ? How many shoes did we play anyway ?
We saw no player win anything, but that is commonplace.
$25 and up tables were all "No Mid Entry" Shoes, but there were $15 tables this (Sunday) morning and they could be "wonged" at will, not that we saw any worthwhile True Counts.
