Sonny's Shuffle Tracking!

[zengrifter]

Sonny posted his marvelous "ST for Dummies I-II" and no one even responded! Do NOT be intimidated by the subject - everyone is to review the subject. and respond accordingly! Mach shnell! zg
http://www.blackjackinfo.com/bb/showthread.php?t=1919

[E-town-guy]

I think I'm intimidated by shuffle tracking in general.

[Mikeaber]

Saw it. Read through it. Didn't have time to digest it. But I have saved it and will be giving it attention. I just can't right now....new Grand Baby is shuffling my priorities for the present!

[sagefr0g]

these are great articles. i read them a while back. they are what inspired me to think, hey i might actually be able to do this!
i wish Sonny would write another series about the actual observation techniques of how a shuffle tracker gets a handle on a slug as he follows it through the various grabs, riffles, strips and the plugging of the cut off cards into the discards.
i'm just starting out trying to learn ST. i believe it holds a solution to one of my biggest gripes with regards to ap counting of shoes. because of my limited bankroll i've got to wong out a lot and the joints i play are not very good for wonging in. so what i'm faced with is having to enter a lot of tables from the get go never knowing if the shoe is going to afford an advantageous count or is it going to be one that just drains my stake. it's occured to me that one could use ST as a form of wonging in that would not be so obvious as 'traditional' wonging in. one could stand back and count down a shoe determining a good plug and then one could tell if the next shoe was likely to be worth playing or not.
well i've been observing the shuffles that the joints i frequent use. my problem for now is getting a handle on following the slugs through the shuffle and determining where they end up once the shuffling and cutting is over.
best regards,
mr fr0g

[shadroch]

I read them,with great interest. But I need to work on my counting and finish polishing my BS before entering the advance phases. My thanks for those threads and all the help I've gotten so far.

[zengrifter]

I cant do the fancy stuff, but I have CUT-OFF tracking down. zg

[ScottH]

Learning to shuffle track (successfully) is a lot of work...

[zengrifter]

Cut-Off Tracking is relatively easy. zg

[ScottH]

Originally Posted by zengrifter

Cut-Off Tracking is relatively easy. zg

Can you explain what cut-off tracking is/how to do it? I read about it in Blackjack attack but I didn't understand it very well since I had passed over most of the shuffle tracking pages.

[zengrifter]

See ZG Interview page 12. You may paste the page-12 CUT-OFF tracking data in this thread for further discussion. zg