I've had my own run with the casinos out here - but strangely enough no barrings or backoffs that you refer (you'll probably figure out why later on). I do have some friends that come with when I play but oddly enough - none of them want to practice any form of card counting. Its frustrating to search for just a partner in such a simple experiment and to be stymied by something that plagues us all - greed, loss of concentration, loss of respect for money and other things already mentioned.
To give you a run down on my history - I'm not really counting cards through the entire time I'm playing - I find I'm losing concentration after about 4 hands in. Though I am only playing double deck and the opportunity seems to knock the most at the beginning of the deck (strange?)
I've played most of my time at a smaller casino with smaller bet limits, 4 decks and 6 decks, and ended up losing about 19k. I switched to a larger casino with larger limits and played almost exclusively the double deck. I am now up 101k in 2 months and after reviewing my wins/losses log wonder if i don't need a long vacation from playing. My initial streak started around 12 winning streaks with wins ranging from 3k-15k. the next 9 sessions after I've had wins as high as 30k and losses as high as 42k. This would seem to suggest I need to re-look at how I'm playing and assess how I am approaching the money that I so earnestly hunted for. Really this is me reaching out to a community online because of the stigma associated with blackjack players out in the regular world. I'm guessing I really just needed to type out these thoughts to better grasps the inner workings of my own turmoil.
As a side note - pit bosses were trying to encourage me to play only $500 after I had hit my goal of 100k which I knew was just a bait, but the urge to play was still there. In the end I was still able to walk out without playing more- but sometimes I have to wonder if the next time I won't.
To give you a run down on my history - I'm not really counting cards through the entire time I'm playing - I find I'm losing concentration after about 4 hands in. Though I am only playing double deck and the opportunity seems to knock the most at the beginning of the deck (strange?)
I've played most of my time at a smaller casino with smaller bet limits, 4 decks and 6 decks, and ended up losing about 19k. I switched to a larger casino with larger limits and played almost exclusively the double deck. I am now up 101k in 2 months and after reviewing my wins/losses log wonder if i don't need a long vacation from playing. My initial streak started around 12 winning streaks with wins ranging from 3k-15k. the next 9 sessions after I've had wins as high as 30k and losses as high as 42k. This would seem to suggest I need to re-look at how I'm playing and assess how I am approaching the money that I so earnestly hunted for. Really this is me reaching out to a community online because of the stigma associated with blackjack players out in the regular world. I'm guessing I really just needed to type out these thoughts to better grasps the inner workings of my own turmoil.
As a side note - pit bosses were trying to encourage me to play only $500 after I had hit my goal of 100k which I knew was just a bait, but the urge to play was still there. In the end I was still able to walk out without playing more- but sometimes I have to wonder if the next time I won't.
Is it possible for a human being to run a mile in 2 minutes? Hasn't been done that we know of, but does that mean it is impossible? What about travel to the moon? In the 19th century surely that would have been thought as impossible. So I am not one to say what is possible and/or impossible. With that in mind, the answer to your question is NO, not possible. :laugh: