Recent content by dacium

I have intestine disorder and eat very little which has made be age slowly apparently. Anyway I still get carded in australia (which is 18) and I am now 29....

I believe that the chance of loosing any single hand of blackjack is up around 66%, its the doubles,splits and blackjacks that bring this back down to near the 50% figure. At 66% 15 in a row is only 1 in 500.... you can see that big streaks are really common. The difference between using the...

I can't believe how quickly it went down hill. In 2009 I was still finding $5 min $500max tables that were 6 deck with 5.5 cut in and you could wong all you wanted without the table getting packed. Then for some reason it really got busy and you couldn't wong anymore because you could never...

Just becareful, its a criminal offense for a "partnership" to collude to bet more than the table maximum - reguardless of if its across hands. So make sure the sum of your bets for all of your group betting when spreading is less than table max. Thats the only law they use to get counters.

years ago at monday morning at about 4am to 5am shift they used to have a $5 min $500max shoes running while they trained. It was a good excuse to hide spreading by saying you were doing 'silly' things. I wonder if they are still around?

5,15,45,150? I mean it doesn't even make sense as martingale. Secondly why don't these morons do this sort of thing on line, or on a computer for fun and see what will happen? Are they really that stupid? I knew one guy who would play on a computer until he got a bad streak and lost...

I was in a silly tournament where you went through based on how many chips you had left, only thing was there were less places than there were tables, so there were like 500 people battling for 7 places. I unfortuently drew the first game. By the last hand I had turned 1,000 in chips to 13,000...

I take so much heat when I hit soft 18. The dealers are always "are you sure? are you sure? Its 18 sir, are you sure?" and the whole table groans like I am some sort of moron and all this always draws the bit bosses over. A player hitting soft 18 been playing for 5 hours and is winning? Might as...

I find that staggeringly unbelievable. If you follow the two basic rules: -Hit hard hands to 17 when deal is 7 or above. -Dont hit hard hands when dealer is 6 or below. The house edge in most games is about 2.5%. 99% of ploppies do not even play that well, and their splitting and...

im always amazed how often the "basic stategy" pops up for plays that are completely wrong. Or one lady knew it was BS to split 8's but then stood hit hard with a dealer 6 up...

i sat in at one game at 11am and before i knew it it was 4am the next morning. Not once did any staff say anything, i had no eaten at all. As i walked out I brought a hotdog at the stand, started eating it as i walked to the car and threw it up everywhere. Drove home on the back streets at about...

I just saw a ploppie doing the rediculous - hitting hard 17 and 18s. The first time he did he drew a 2, so he kept doing it and it ended badly for him... People will do anything in front of their drunken mates.

I think some are beatable. The cards are also put into the top of each carrasel position, and each position usually has the same number of cards, which means the cards being put into the machine tend to have the same number of cards infront of them until they re-appear. So cards have a high...

The treasury do have $10 shoe games. They are tucked away in a room on the south west corner. I don't know why they are hidden away like this, but they attract all the superstitious poppies. I was able to wong all night with no problem.

I have always had similair niggling feelings. But simulations don't lie. Luckily for me I am a programmer, so I have programmed my own simulators and calculators, even for 7 table games. The house edge is real and it is beaten by counting. I believe the reason why counters do so poorly is that...