Recent content by maddencutter

Books about card counting?

The other five? Come on...;)

I seem to recall NDAS on the most positive EV game. I seem to recall pen was playable but nothing special.

OK. Say you're playing DD and side-counting aces. How exactly do you use the ace side count? I assume you would play all your indices exactly as you would normally and factor an ace as about twice as negative as a ten when it comes to your bet spread. Something like that? What if you...

Hey all. I've become fairly comfortable with Hi-Lo. I wouldn't say I'm a master, but I've got it down. I've been flirting with the idea of learning another step; a side count or something before my next trip, but I'm not quite sure where to start. I was considering the following. What...

I played around with it once or twice as a liaison between basic strategy and Hi-Lo. That's basically all it is. Not a way to make money.

FWIW, I was out there recently and I was shocked by the LACK of heat.

Sort of. I don't really have a good feel for how many hands I was getting in, or really even number of hours. I have a better idea now of my EV, but I didn't quite know it at the time. As I said, I play some "home-cooked" indices, so I don't know quite know how much that affects my bottom...

So I recently took my first playing trip, to a large city in Southern Nevada famous for having lots of casinos. I was exclusively confined to the Strip. I ended up exclusively playing one game, at a number of different casinos. (More than one deck, fewer than 6.) I didn't quite have this...

OK blackjack with no ante? Pray tell. :grin:

So I got to play today, and I was counting hand by hand. Only problem I had was when the dealer had blackjack, you gotta count em' all fast, and I ruined my entire count a couple times that way. Works great all the other times, count as people play.... Then I tried card by card. That is...

What have you found to work best as far as actually counting the cards? Do you count one by one as they are dealt? I am still mastering card counting, and I try to update my count after each entire hand is played. Where I have trouble on occasion is when playing my own hand, and I get a 5...

Bump. Anyone know if any casinos, particularly the far southern ones, have certain days/times where the stupid ante is waved? I live in the DFW area, and I don't want to drive all the way to Shreveport to play.

Hey guys. I'm new to this thing, just getting started. I have a couple questions to throw at ya'll. I'm learning to count Spanish 21 as well as BJ. In fact, I've just finished reading the primary book on the topic, by Katarina Walker. When published, the game was apparently easier to...