Recent content by BFC

I opened an ameritrade account cuz of all the free trades and promptly got hammered on DNDN..... whoops.

Thanks for that. I think that would help. I did do some of that in practice, but not enough. Probably my biggest problem was that I'd known zero about card counting prior to planning a vacation, which was two months before I left. It wasn;t enough time to get everything down cold with the...

you seem like a real barrel of laughs.

thanks!

sure have - candyflipping, we call it. i stopped taking lsd for a while because i had a couple not-so-great trips. (I thought they were "bad" until I saw some people that ~really~ had bad trips.) i found the MDMA is sort of like a nice insurance policy you can take out to avoid unpleasant...

exactly! I've probably got a long long time before I see a casino again anyhow.

My wife actively dislikes gambling, so I don't think anything would have impresed her. But it wasn't really about impressing anybody- I'm not sure my friends had any real idea what I was doing beyond playing blackjack. They're jokers and I didn't want them going "Hey - How's the card countinig...

like i said, it was also a vacation, and the bankroll i was using wasn't the rent. It wasn't smart, but i still had fun. Not sure the same could be said if I left my wife and friends for hours at a time while I wonged myself. i was only high once out of several attempts at playing. last...

yeah, it was def a flop for my first try. thanks for the sympathy..... I wasn't playing with money that was going to break the bank so some of the time i played i just tried to practice counting in a real environment. I even played on some $10 games that were either CSM or ASM with...

oh - that too. yeah i guess they weren't very good rules after all.

well i came back from my first trip to vegas (or any real casino for that matter) and my first stab at counting. All I can say is that I have a long way to go! I was kind of expecting the dealer to say "18" when my cards totalled 18, and hadn't really practiced the addition + counting, which...

1. No, Not on a CSM that shuffles every hand. On an autoshuffler that's used only after say 6 decks are dealt and then all are reshuffled, yes. 2. Yes. Good penetration is, from what i gather, at least 80% of cards. (which would be 6.5 decks, but 7 would be better.)

if you are 19 with a 30K bankroll, I'd just keep on doing whatever it was that got you 30K. When I was that age my bankroll wouldve been $30. :grin:

Fuk Nguyen? I dunno please tell.....

has anybody tried pretending they don't speak english to shut up any schmoes at the table? I speak French well enough and so do my friends. Could we talk about the count and betting strategies openly in french without dealers in LV picking that up? Or if we get caught speaking english later...