card sequencing

[supercoolmancool]

I can memorize 26 cards as they go into the discard tray and their 26 card probable marriage partner by myself. I decided to purse this because I knew it had huge advantages, but I really don't know how to play optimally. Does anyone have any advice on how to play or how to perserve longevity?

[mdlbj]

If you can land an Ace and a 10 value card at that hot chicks spot and tell her she is gonna get blackjack before the cards are delt. Then you got it.

Let me be a little more specific. Card sequencing and shuffle tracking go hand in hand. Due to the different shuffle styles of any given dealer, you may want to use the best strategy for the given situation. Weather it be a straight up count, sequencing, tracking or hole carding. You have to do all when the opportunity is there. Practicing cutting to the aces, see if you can land them in your hand. BS, deviation and I18 come into play big time when your doing this however. Watch yourself.

[Automatic Monkey]

Wait a minute, that is usually not what people mean when they say sequencing. Sequencing means remembering the cards close to an ace or other auspicious card, and using the math associated with the mechanics of the shuffle to predict when you are going to get that ace relative to seeing the key card(s).

Remembering the value of a slug and the slug mated with it is more in the category of tracking than sequencing.

[RJT]

If you are talking about memorizing the precise order of a 26 card slug and not just the count of the slug (i.e. 2 of spades, 7 of hearts, 8 of spades, ect ect) i'm not convinced overall that it will be a whole lot of use to you. That slug would have to be mixed precisly with the other slug you've memorized and each time they riffle the two grabs together after the first time is going to break the sequence.
However if you can find a situation where this happens and the dealer is very accurate with his/her riffs and riffs the cards only twice, after seeing the first card you will know what the 5th card and the 9th card ect ect. After seeing the 2nd card you should have a good idea what the 6th card and the 10th card will be. This is where it all gets very complicated and you start to get bogged down with all the different parts of the two sequences that you'll have to pull out.
Overall the right situation is going to happen so infrequently and the technique is going to require so much mental endurance, i'm not convinced that using this technique solo is going to be worth it. Now a team, that's a different story.....

RJT.

[supercoolmancool]

Yah I guess I just need to find a one pass one riffle game.

[supercoolmancool]

Are there any other ways to profit from having a really good memory? Even outside of blackjack. Like there are no limitations to what I can remember.

[ScottH]

Originally Posted by RJT

Now a team, that's a different story.....

RJT.

Tell us about this story. Let's say there is a team of 2 players with an almost unlimited capacity for memory. What could they do?

[RJT]

Well there have been groups that have played hand held games with one person betting minimums putting, never hitting and returning the cards in as close to low/high order as possible. This give a very strong prediction of the next cardin certain situations.
Other than that, it's exactly what i described before. Being able to predict the next card with huge accuracy. 2 People doing this with a 1 riffle shuffle can do this with almost un-nerving accuracy. Just use your imagination. You'll come up with all sorts of techniques you could perform with this technique.

RJT.

[Automatic Monkey]

Originally Posted by supercoolmancool

Are there any other ways to profit from having a really good memory? Even outside of blackjack. Like there are no limitations to what I can remember.

How about double-key sequencing? You can beat the hell out of even 8D shoe games with that technique. Can you remember 20-30 ordered pairs of cards, suited? The pairs don't have to be in order, just the order of the two cards in each pair.

[mdlbj]

Originally Posted by ScottH

Tell us about this story. Let's say there is a team of 2 players with an almost unlimited capacity for memory. What could they do?

They would not be playing blackjack...Capote had a 98% retention rate yet he died from alcohol.