Click, what a sound!
Ok, here it is, imagine this:
A light bulb turning on, a sharp Click sound, the sound of a penny dropping on the ground.
Yes it finally happend, it just seemed to happen, without thinking about it.....
Gosh i cant believe it, i was just doing it, its been such hard work, but for the first time, it just seemed to feel right. and the result showed.
+60 units , ive never held a $500 chip in my life before, but when i got it, and looked at it, studied it, i had the most incredible feeling, it is really beyond words.
now lets go back in time a bit.
Ok so i basically tapped out my noob bankroll last week, which was $500 so i basically decided that if i really wanted to be half decent and watching my ROR i need a decent bankroll, so ive given myself $2500 and ill be honest if i lose that, i think it well be the end of my card counting career.
Now with $500 from my new bankroll in hand, i venture down to the local haunt, having taken the day off work i was in at a time when im normally not there, and they have about half the tables open that they normally do, and they are running this interesting scam of a side bet of pairs. total crap, but what it does do, is slows down the deal enough for me to be 100% right on the inital flopcount whicle he collects others chips, a good 10-15 seconds.
A large group of (i think chinese guys - hell of a nice lot of guys, they were all having so much fun.) were going crazy over the pairs rubbish, so it really was good for me, also they were placing all sorts of rubbish bets and in huge chip quantities, really masking what i was doing. Anyways, the count in the first couple of shows hovers pretty much around neutral, and so did my bank, until about an hour and a half in the count went ballistic near the end of the shoe, it was TC +6 one of the first times it has ever gotten this high for me, and for the first time i was betting 50 and 60 dollars a hand, which for me was a big thing, i won a couple and lost one, but the last hand i got a pair of nines (the commotion in chinese champ, how i got a pair of nines and they didnt, was the most brilliant cover i could ask for, as i looked at them quizzically trying to say, hey its not my fault) verses a dealer 7, split them and got pictures on both, with 60 on each, and the dealer pictures, for a win to me of like 120 bucks in a single hand, a new PB for me!
anyways, it was time for a lunch break, i took the comped meal and sat back for a while, then played again for about an hour or so, and whilst the count was OKish +2 and +3 it never got to what it was like before, but i pulled a good few 20's and was doing well. Anyways i then cashed out, and i got this purple chip, which as a total noob gave me the biggest thrill, i thought, YES! this is what its about!
So basically im now +600 with my bankroll at $3100 having written of my 500 noob start.
When i got back to my car i was literally shaking, thinking holy sh*t i cant believe it. Now looking back analytically, several good things happend.
1. The cover, with the Chinese fun party going on, and like all eyes on them, i didnt need to worry about cover.
2. The side betting game on the table helped my counting immensly.
3. The larger bankroll means i could afford to bet larger spreads, which i wouldnt have risked with my noob start.
4. Practising, its actually really starting to help a lot, i can count pairs easy now, and know the whole cancel each other out thing
So guys, im on cloud nine right now, and i wont go back unitl early next week at this stage, but man im so happy, not for the money, which is the scorecard, but the fact that all the practising im doing actually is working.
I can only imagine what its like for you guys who have decent BJ games to play on, not the rubbish i am forced to play on.
as always thanks for all your help and advice
