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The guy who said that that was only a small bit of it was right, wasn't he? I mean, I'm of course ignoring the problem of talking about counting *in* the casino, but the REAL value from counting comes with a face-rich shoe that you get the opportunity to have splits and doubles while your bet is...

You have the purchased version of CV? 'Cause I believe the demo changes all 7s (or 5s or something) into Jacks. Also, and obviously, you are adding +1 for every red seven that you see go by, right?

ASM would solve everyone's problems! ;-)

Explain...

Convincing defense. Oh wait, no... it contained nothing of substance. In fact, it sounds like the defense of someone who realized he was wrong but can't admit it, so he just resorts to a condescending and unbelievably pointless response. Nice! EDIT: Whoops, I meant to reply to 21gunsalute...

. . . My initial reply to this was a bit long-winded and rude, so I am redoing it. Suffice to say... Uh... Do you know anything about the THEORY of card counting? Namely that more high cards left in the shoe and LESS low cards left in the show is statistically better for the player and worse...

It should just be the difference between making the front of the shoe slightly richer in high cards—allowing bigger bets from the top, allowing for better camouflage—and making later in the shoe (perhaps even further in than is penetrated) slightly richer in high cards. Seems like the obvious...

The other thing to remember, is that it could always stay negative. It might never become positive again. But if we view more hands, and the "viewframe" is zoomed out, even if it were to stay at -20 (or around there), it would start to look like it was "leveling out," just because more hands are...

Yeah, he must have misspoken. When shuffle-tracking, it's the portions where the count dropped fast that you want to cut to the front (meaning the big cards, not the small ones). It's a common mistake... we're so used to worshiping sections of the deck when the RC is high, but that is in...

On the one hand, you're taking more money from the big, bad, evil casino. Cool! On the other hand, the dealer has two options here... #1: He can continue to deal quickly, hopefully keeping the casino's earnings higher by keeping the game moving. THEN, you end up winning more, and the casino...

All I am saying is that if you are barred, then the long run means nothing because you can't win if you can't play. Altering a betting strategy that the casinos think is a guaranteed losing strategy to take into account the shoe's true count in order to make it a WINNING strategy (even if it is...

I am genuinely interested in why this method will fail. In my eyes, I see betting bigger when the count is high, and betting smaller when the count is low or negative. My layman mind is not as experienced in the world of blackjack as yours. As stated by previous posters, it isn't a question of...

Just a personal story, which, obviously, is ONE trial run and therefore not all that significant. HOWEVER, where heat is concerned, I think it is less math and more human vs. casino psychology that is involved, if you will... When I was in Costa Rica, and first started getting into counting...

Not enough! I've been down a couple times... most of my play experience was down in Costa Rica last summer, which is when I started learning advantage play strategies. I've been doing a whole bunch of research the last few months on various AP strategies, and I'd be interested in talking to you...

Hi, all... So, I have some ideas for team-play strategy that I'm not sure have been tried (or at least, discovered, yet), and I'm interested in putting together a small team and hitting up AC at some point. I go school for music and am, not surprisingly, having trouble finding people...