natdm said:
What are your details? Starting bankroll, unit size, and what changed when you've been losing now?
Change? Change nothing--sometimes you just lose! Have you ever played roulette aftter turning 21 and won? I have. I won a few consecutive sessions and took three casinos for a couple hundred dollars. THEY HAD A FIVE PERCENT EDGE AGAINST ME AND I WON THREE SESSIONS IN A ROW! As a GOOD cardcounter, you have a one percent edge over them. That's it! To get anything more you need a BP team or proficiency with an advanced technique or become a really good comp whore, etc. AND EVEN THEN, YOU'RE STILL GOING TO HAVE HERENDOUS LOSING STREAKS IF YOU PLAY LONG ENOUGH!
My first weekend ever cardcounting, the AC Sands put me up in a suite (a real one) for the weekend because of all the roulette and blackjack losses that I had. I kissed roulette good bye that weekend. (Don't try this in your local casino--they don't like it when you put your mouth on their gambling devices.) I was playing red chips and it was the only trip I ever used Hi-Lo. I TURNED $300 INTO $3,600. Another story...
My first weekend as a green chip player (I've been a green chip player for years now.), I turned $3,000 into $7,800. I was using Halves for over a year at that point. Another story...
It was literally my first 30 minutes of my life at the tables in Vegas. I was armed with $12K for the trip. My maximum bet was $500 which I intended to use sparingly, only when the Halves TC was really high. The Venetian: they play six out of eight decks. After only two decks of my second shoe (I wonged out, partially through the first shoe.), the TC was already +4. That's right--the RC was in the 20's! The count held. At more than halfway, the count was fluctuating around +7 True. I was betting $500 per hand. until the cut card. The RC was +30 in the last hand. The TC was +15!!!!! All those high cards I was betting on were locked behind the shuffle point. I lost $4,000, my first half hour in Vegas. Another story...
I was shuffle-tracking a MGM casino. I bought in for $50. They were six decks. They were $25 minimums. Again, my buy-in was $50. I played three shoes. I counted the first shoe and watched as the count tanked into the netheregions of negativity on two seperate occassions. One other player was at the table, maybe even a cardcounter? He was betting black chips. I split a couple tens and stood on a soft-13 vs. the dealer 6. Needless to say, he got up pretty hastilly and notified the onlookers on what a wonderful guy I am. I got the cut card card and no one else sat down at the NMS, $25 table. I was up $25. By the end of that shoe, I was up to $1,500. I got the cut-card again and still, no one wanted to play with me? The next shoe wasn't so lucky. No matter. However, the segments that I was tracking weren't all that valuable. The count was hovering around 0. I cashed out with $1,050 after a $50 buy-in!
