I am using basic strategy, Counting with hi-lo, 6D H17 DAS DOA NS
I take insurance at a TC of +3, but I don't know the I-18 well enough to feel comfortable using it, so i am still sticking to basic strategy so I don't make mistakes. I think its better to play a solid game-plan that you know than make mistakes on a more complicated game-plan you don't know that well.
in the 3 hours that I played the TC never went below -2,
my bet spreading was
10, 10, 20, 30, 50, 2x60 (TC 0,1,2,3,4,5)
one shoe that I was playing the Running count rose really quickly to +10 by the 3rd hand and the TC was at +4 by the 4th hand, before I knew it the Running count was at 26 with 4 decks remaining (TC around 6.5) and since my betting spread doesn't really know what to do for this because it rarely ever happens, I raised my bets to 2x100,
dispite the fact that the TC was really high, I lost 2x100 units 4 times in a row, then I lost 2x60 units twice. and it was time to shuffle (thats a loss of 92 units in 6 hands)
But i know this game has a lot of variance so I kept playing (I brought 130 units with me) and in the next shoe the TC bounced back and forth between 2 and 3 a bit, but I still managed to loose 8 units, (now down to -100 units for the session, in a span of 2 shoes)
I kept playing through 2 more shoes (the count stayed between 0 and -2 pretty consistently for thoes 2 shoes) and I lost my remaining $300 (30 units)
overall I think I spent 3 hours playing, after the first hour and a half I was about break-even and then in the next hour and a half I had my horrible streak of bad luck.
How oftain do you guys (other AP's) loose your entire chip-stack when you play? is this sorta loss very common in a 3 hour game? if I was using the I18 would this not have happened?
i'm very discouraged, Ive never had a loss anywhere near this bad before and it doesn't feel good, I understand probability and I know I just got unlucky but it stings a lot, I lost all the profit that I had made since I started counting 3 weeks ago (64 units) and then I turned it into a loss of 66 units.
I take insurance at a TC of +3, but I don't know the I-18 well enough to feel comfortable using it, so i am still sticking to basic strategy so I don't make mistakes. I think its better to play a solid game-plan that you know than make mistakes on a more complicated game-plan you don't know that well.
in the 3 hours that I played the TC never went below -2,
my bet spreading was
10, 10, 20, 30, 50, 2x60 (TC 0,1,2,3,4,5)
one shoe that I was playing the Running count rose really quickly to +10 by the 3rd hand and the TC was at +4 by the 4th hand, before I knew it the Running count was at 26 with 4 decks remaining (TC around 6.5) and since my betting spread doesn't really know what to do for this because it rarely ever happens, I raised my bets to 2x100,
dispite the fact that the TC was really high, I lost 2x100 units 4 times in a row, then I lost 2x60 units twice. and it was time to shuffle (thats a loss of 92 units in 6 hands)
But i know this game has a lot of variance so I kept playing (I brought 130 units with me) and in the next shoe the TC bounced back and forth between 2 and 3 a bit, but I still managed to loose 8 units, (now down to -100 units for the session, in a span of 2 shoes)
I kept playing through 2 more shoes (the count stayed between 0 and -2 pretty consistently for thoes 2 shoes) and I lost my remaining $300 (30 units)
overall I think I spent 3 hours playing, after the first hour and a half I was about break-even and then in the next hour and a half I had my horrible streak of bad luck.
How oftain do you guys (other AP's) loose your entire chip-stack when you play? is this sorta loss very common in a 3 hour game? if I was using the I18 would this not have happened?
i'm very discouraged, Ive never had a loss anywhere near this bad before and it doesn't feel good, I understand probability and I know I just got unlucky but it stings a lot, I lost all the profit that I had made since I started counting 3 weeks ago (64 units) and then I turned it into a loss of 66 units.