Hi everyone! First post here on this site. Glad to meet you all!
I'm new to serious blackjack study. Maybe I should post this in the
regular blackjack forum but the book I'm reading is the K-O book
on counting cards.
The last few years I've been caught up in the poker craze and bought
and read just about all the big books out there on the game. After spending
three hours in a $1.00 sit and go beating 30 people and only winning
$20.00 I realized it's not really worth the time. I guess I'm tired of the fad or something. lol. I never played high stakes poker tho.
Anyway, I've always wanted to learn the trick to counting cards and find
out how hard or easy it was. After doing a little research I found that the
K-O method is the most easy system to learn but also powerful. So I went
for that book and hey - only $20.00 or so dollars on amazon. So far the book
has been well worth the money and easy to read and follow.
I post on usenet and went to the blackjack groups but only found
spam. I punched in "blackjack discussion" on google and that led me to here.
I have only played blackjack once in a real casino - that was on a cruise ship. I did not know what I was doing except beat the dealer and don’t' bust. I can't remember how many decks but I think it was two. I did not touch the cards. I put down $20.00 I won like three our four bets in a row, ended up with $100.00, and grabbed my chips and ran! I went back a few days later to win more money and lost all the money I made! lol
As I said, the book I have is the K-O book. I'm about 2/3's the way thru
it. I have the basic strategy memorized. I have half the preferred matrix
memorized and will put the rest to memory. I don’t' have any of it down cold
tho. I can play blackjack with myself but it takes me a minute or so to run
the chart in my head and think what I should do. It does seem to be coming
to me faster the more I play. Seems like most the hands I'm dealt are hard hands, few soft hands, and fewer pairs.
One of the most fun things I like doing is counting thru a deck of cards. I can
count thru one deck in 27 seconds. However, I'm not 200% perfect yet. If I do it five times in a row I will be right three or four times. I have a problem of trying to count faster than my brain will allow me. I've only been doing
this for two weeks. The last few days counting under 35 seconds has become very easy.
I bought some flash cards and am practicing what I should do with certain hands. I'm also practicing some basic addition - instead of adding 12 + 9
in my head I'm trying to simply memorize it so I can recognize it instantly which will hopefully let me concentrate on the running count.
As for the running count - I have tried a few times to keep the running count
while playing blackjack with myself but with trying to do the right thing with the hands I lose count easily.
That's about it. I've been at this for about two weeks now. I want to hit a casino and count cards and make money!
I'm new to serious blackjack study. Maybe I should post this in the
regular blackjack forum but the book I'm reading is the K-O book
on counting cards.
The last few years I've been caught up in the poker craze and bought
and read just about all the big books out there on the game. After spending
three hours in a $1.00 sit and go beating 30 people and only winning
$20.00 I realized it's not really worth the time. I guess I'm tired of the fad or something. lol. I never played high stakes poker tho.
Anyway, I've always wanted to learn the trick to counting cards and find
out how hard or easy it was. After doing a little research I found that the
K-O method is the most easy system to learn but also powerful. So I went
for that book and hey - only $20.00 or so dollars on amazon. So far the book
has been well worth the money and easy to read and follow.
I post on usenet and went to the blackjack groups but only found
spam. I punched in "blackjack discussion" on google and that led me to here.
I have only played blackjack once in a real casino - that was on a cruise ship. I did not know what I was doing except beat the dealer and don’t' bust. I can't remember how many decks but I think it was two. I did not touch the cards. I put down $20.00 I won like three our four bets in a row, ended up with $100.00, and grabbed my chips and ran! I went back a few days later to win more money and lost all the money I made! lol
As I said, the book I have is the K-O book. I'm about 2/3's the way thru
it. I have the basic strategy memorized. I have half the preferred matrix
memorized and will put the rest to memory. I don’t' have any of it down cold
tho. I can play blackjack with myself but it takes me a minute or so to run
the chart in my head and think what I should do. It does seem to be coming
to me faster the more I play. Seems like most the hands I'm dealt are hard hands, few soft hands, and fewer pairs.
One of the most fun things I like doing is counting thru a deck of cards. I can
count thru one deck in 27 seconds. However, I'm not 200% perfect yet. If I do it five times in a row I will be right three or four times. I have a problem of trying to count faster than my brain will allow me. I've only been doing
this for two weeks. The last few days counting under 35 seconds has become very easy.
I bought some flash cards and am practicing what I should do with certain hands. I'm also practicing some basic addition - instead of adding 12 + 9
in my head I'm trying to simply memorize it so I can recognize it instantly which will hopefully let me concentrate on the running count.
As for the running count - I have tried a few times to keep the running count
while playing blackjack with myself but with trying to do the right thing with the hands I lose count easily.
That's about it. I've been at this for about two weeks now. I want to hit a casino and count cards and make money!
