Ok, here goes. Say I am playing with a $1000.00 BR [my stop point for the day, not total BR] and betting red tables with a $10.00 to $100.00 spread (1 unit to 10 units - I know that's a big spread on a small BR) and I find myself quickly (in about 10 minutes) up 13.5 units ($135.00). Statistics say I should just get up and walk right? I shouldn't have been able to make anymore than about $30.00 an hour like this right? So why keep playing.
Here's what I have been doing - I do get up and walk. I take the $135.00 and left pocket it, never to see the light of day again (until I am done with this session) and go to another pit, sometimes another store, and do it again using the original $1000.00 BR as a starting point. As soon as I get up $125.00 or so I do it again, which usually doesn't take long. If I can't get there in 15 minutes or so, I leave and move on. I don't keep flat betting and wait for the cards to turn. Most of the time I have been able to do this about two times per hour for around 3 to 4 hours which seems to make good $$.
Should I continue this or would I make more staying put a little longer here and there? It doesn't matter what the count is to me when I get up, I just do. In fact I have had other AP's look at me (yea, I see you too, lol) like I was nuts when I get up from a good + table and color up. Is this kind of wonging going to bite me in the rear later? I guess I can envision a nightmare where everywhere I sit I immediately get bad cards, and it never stops until my BR is gone, but I haven't run into that yet. I guess statistically if you are surrounded by twenty tables (combining close proximity stores) the odds of them all being bad to you at the same time aren't very good, and maybe that's why this has worked for me. For me it beats "waiting for the count to get better". In large shoe games, that may take all day or not happen at all.
I usually go back to the pit/store/area where I was playing earlier and sit down for a while that evening with a big shoe game just flat betting with occasional bet spreading (light 1-4 unit minimum bet stuff) and have some drinks, play BS and clear my head. I usually stay even or just one way or the other during these "mini session" of mainly BS. I don't know if this helps for camo or not but I seem to be on good terms with the dealers and pits. Haven't felt like I had eyes boring into the back of my head or anything yet. I've even split T's a time or two, albeit usually when the dealer had a 6 up and no one screamed at me.
Most of this kind of play has been at the higher end stores on their lower end tables. It seems they really don't care too much what goes on there as long as you watch the spread a little. I've gotten in the habit of not using many greens, just stacking reds up. Every time I get a green I drop it in my shirt pocket to "keep my wife from coming over from the slots and taking my chips". When it's color up time I may or may not color up the greens, sometimes I just wait until I go to the cashier. If I need more chips because my reds have turned to greens I don't cash them in, I pull out my wallet and change a couple of hundred. Dealer has never said, "What about those greens in your pocket?" It's not like I am leaving with a bunch of them every time anyway.
So, what do you guys think? I'm going to try it again next week and see how it goes. Any and all advice and comments is/are appreciated and respected. Thanks for the help!
Here's what I have been doing - I do get up and walk. I take the $135.00 and left pocket it, never to see the light of day again (until I am done with this session) and go to another pit, sometimes another store, and do it again using the original $1000.00 BR as a starting point. As soon as I get up $125.00 or so I do it again, which usually doesn't take long. If I can't get there in 15 minutes or so, I leave and move on. I don't keep flat betting and wait for the cards to turn. Most of the time I have been able to do this about two times per hour for around 3 to 4 hours which seems to make good $$.
Should I continue this or would I make more staying put a little longer here and there? It doesn't matter what the count is to me when I get up, I just do. In fact I have had other AP's look at me (yea, I see you too, lol) like I was nuts when I get up from a good + table and color up. Is this kind of wonging going to bite me in the rear later? I guess I can envision a nightmare where everywhere I sit I immediately get bad cards, and it never stops until my BR is gone, but I haven't run into that yet. I guess statistically if you are surrounded by twenty tables (combining close proximity stores) the odds of them all being bad to you at the same time aren't very good, and maybe that's why this has worked for me. For me it beats "waiting for the count to get better". In large shoe games, that may take all day or not happen at all.
I usually go back to the pit/store/area where I was playing earlier and sit down for a while that evening with a big shoe game just flat betting with occasional bet spreading (light 1-4 unit minimum bet stuff) and have some drinks, play BS and clear my head. I usually stay even or just one way or the other during these "mini session" of mainly BS. I don't know if this helps for camo or not but I seem to be on good terms with the dealers and pits. Haven't felt like I had eyes boring into the back of my head or anything yet. I've even split T's a time or two, albeit usually when the dealer had a 6 up and no one screamed at me.
Most of this kind of play has been at the higher end stores on their lower end tables. It seems they really don't care too much what goes on there as long as you watch the spread a little. I've gotten in the habit of not using many greens, just stacking reds up. Every time I get a green I drop it in my shirt pocket to "keep my wife from coming over from the slots and taking my chips". When it's color up time I may or may not color up the greens, sometimes I just wait until I go to the cashier. If I need more chips because my reds have turned to greens I don't cash them in, I pull out my wallet and change a couple of hundred. Dealer has never said, "What about those greens in your pocket?" It's not like I am leaving with a bunch of them every time anyway.
So, what do you guys think? I'm going to try it again next week and see how it goes. Any and all advice and comments is/are appreciated and respected. Thanks for the help!