Recent content by bigruss

I'm still at a loss here. We're trying to assume what the count is after we walked away from the table and stopped counting? After you get through with your bidness in the bathroom, walk around somewhere until the shoe is finished for goodness sakes. Why the heck would you want to play a shoe...

What does this mean then? "the frequency of splits and double down increase for them (APs)" The frequency does not increase with more tens in the deck. Splits won't happen as often because you are more likely to be going up against a dealer ten when you get them. And again, your chances...

Your chances of getting a double down are reduced if there are more tens in the deck. That's just common sense. Obviously, if you do get the double down combination in a high count situation, then your chances of getting the ten on top of it is greatly increased. As far as splits go. Other...

I'm totally confused here. Are we talking about walking away from a table, not knowing the count and then trying to guestimate the count based on the amount of cards remaining in the shoe? If so I think we should assume we don't know what the heck the count is, wait the shoe is done and the...

I think they've been banned. I got some heat spreading one to ten. Another guy I play with was spreading over into my box which is what caused the attention I think. I told him after the shoe not to do that any more. I think that's what caused it as those everyday guys were doing this...

Does anyone use acting "pissed off" because you're losing, "the dealer is too strong" rationale as an act to wong out. I've been doing that lately for cover. Just wondering if this would be effective in the states. I don't really need cover where I'm at but just do it for the heck of it.

Where is this at? Only casinos I've ever played have things like air conditioning, central heating and a roof. That generally keeps the temp. and humidity inside at a constant.

Am I the only one thinking "WTH?"

If I ever play in the states, I'm sure I will probably need to do a little something to give some cover, but the casino I play at just simply doesn't seem to care about the small tables, which is where I play. Sometimes I just watch the big tables, but haven't seen one AP at any of them that I...

If I was afraid of not winning big on "hot shoes" with negative counts, I'd just use some type of simple positive betting progression. This would give great cover and as I understand it, they generally don't perform much worse than flat betting in the long run for a straight Basic Strat...

I never regret not betting big on shoes like this. In fact, I feel very fortunate that I was able to win most of my minimum bets on such a shoe and just glad it gives me a little more to bet when the numbers get hot. I played a shoe just like that recently and a guy next to me kept telling...

it's a foreign only casino Only foreigners can go. You have to present your passport or national id card at the door. You can't get in if you are a Korean national. I'm American and they treat me no different than any other foreigner there. I've never seen an obvious counter at a big...

We'll see, I'm up six grand since I started counting in september. I'm not a big better and just don't have the bankroll to take huge risks. I generally buy in with a very high risk of ruin for that day. If I lose it I walk. May lose it in thirty minutes, but I get my rear out. Game just...

Penetration is dependent upon the dealer, they are suppose to cut a deck off, so generally speaking 83%. But I've seen some who cut a "thick" deck where you maybe don't get more than 80%. And there's a Korean/American kid I play with that uses "Zen" and he'll tell the dealer in Korean that a...

I play all if the majority of the table are counters. It just seems bad etiquette to go in and out and let someone else take the crap cards when they know what's going on. A guy that I know well that's a counter there, wongs in and out all the time and it really pisses off the other counters...