I'd never tried it before on my single decks before today. Not even in test runs. However after just fooling around with it for part of a couple hours today and last night am beginning to see the advantages.
Or: 3-6 as +1; 7,8,9 and ace as 0 with 10s as -1.
Gives me more certainty about where the aces are. Put my right foot in it's regular place at the beginning of the deck. Moved it in to 6 O'clock when first ace played, 9 O'clock second ace, 12 noon third etc. The only conditioning was remembering to not count the deuce. Or subtract for the ace.
Results: In test runs I could lower my bet spread and still pull off comparably decent earnings. Even in some neutral or even slightly negative counts I felt comfortable about putting a bigger unit down when the deck was loaded with aces. Sure enough, was getting blackjacks at those times more often.
This is interesting because by knowing when an ace is more likely to get pulled I can create some cover camouflage by betting a little bigger at neutral counts. And it's another chance to spread a little higher at a time i normally would have waited for the count to go higher.
Camouflage plays might be moot points at the joints I play as they let me get away with some huge spreads. Even playing heads up though I will ramp my bets up and down with the nickel red. So the powers that be can't be paying that much attention. Not yet anyway.
Don't suppose many use this in shoe play. Would require some extra foot action to account for the 24 aces in a six deck shoe. Doable but perhaps cumbersome. Least ways I've never heard of anyone doing this.
Wonder if anyone has pulled this off in double deck games.
Or: 3-6 as +1; 7,8,9 and ace as 0 with 10s as -1.
Gives me more certainty about where the aces are. Put my right foot in it's regular place at the beginning of the deck. Moved it in to 6 O'clock when first ace played, 9 O'clock second ace, 12 noon third etc. The only conditioning was remembering to not count the deuce. Or subtract for the ace.
Results: In test runs I could lower my bet spread and still pull off comparably decent earnings. Even in some neutral or even slightly negative counts I felt comfortable about putting a bigger unit down when the deck was loaded with aces. Sure enough, was getting blackjacks at those times more often.
This is interesting because by knowing when an ace is more likely to get pulled I can create some cover camouflage by betting a little bigger at neutral counts. And it's another chance to spread a little higher at a time i normally would have waited for the count to go higher.
Camouflage plays might be moot points at the joints I play as they let me get away with some huge spreads. Even playing heads up though I will ramp my bets up and down with the nickel red. So the powers that be can't be paying that much attention. Not yet anyway.
Don't suppose many use this in shoe play. Would require some extra foot action to account for the 24 aces in a six deck shoe. Doable but perhaps cumbersome. Least ways I've never heard of anyone doing this.
Wonder if anyone has pulled this off in double deck games.
