BJgenius007 said:
Hehe. If I truly believe no one is backed off, I would have spread 100 to 1 or play black chips. But I believe the back off stories are highly exaggerated by people who have agenda (APs don't want to share the pie. casino spread false information to scare new counters etc). Someone asked my winning units. I can say it is much higher than the average. I am definitely a threat if the casinos' concern is if anyone winning money. But I am not a threat to casinos' bottom line. I am using advance omega II with ace side count. Ace carries the same weight as ten when it is coming to betting, not just half weight like people using Zen or Hi Opt II. People may earn more units if they have higher spread ratio. But no one can beat me when he is restricted to 20 to 1 spread.
In short, it is better for newbie counters and red/green chippers to believe those back off stores are false.
Whoa, Nellie! I am the consummate scaredy-cat when it comes to back offs. I see surveillance breathing down my neck when there's no one there; I play as if the eye has nothing better to do than watch my puny game. I practice so many covers I can hardly catch myself counting.
So where did I get backed off? You guessed it, betting lightly, X4 or 5 in a little DD game in Vegas. I had been to every casino on the strip with nary a hint of heat and I play at this fairly new property and get pulled over for speeding. I was more threat to myself than the house, and was already $500 down, when I got the proverbial tap. At least it was reassuring that someone in the universe felt I was a risk.
Actually, I did pretty well that trip, but when it comes to heat evasion, I have more moves than Ex-lax. If I can get backed off entirely because I raised my bet 4 or 5 times in plus territory, anyone anywhere can get backed off with the styles they have depicted here in the forum. I like to play-all with wonging out as appropriate. I don't mind marathons. Up until this year, I have always played "RATED." Now I play unrated.
I seldom spread more than 1 to 10, but seriously, I have had discernible heat with my modest game, heat that was more than imagined. In the instance where I got backed off, I sensed the heat, but I disregarded it because I was playing such an innocuous game. My advice-- when you feel heat, believe it, even when you think, "How can this be?"