I'll open up on a recent experience I had at my favorite casino. It was a lower limit table and was counting as usual. It was toward the end of the shoe I estimated one deck before the cut card with one and a half decks behind. The count was really high then started to nose dive the entire last deck out. I attempted to nonchalantly follow the plug through the shuffle which was fairly easy since the dealer did a really poor job of shuffling. I was in luck they let me cut the deck and I did my best to cut the slug to the top. I geuss I was lucky because I took a risk and put a larger bet than normal out for the first four hands and made up the loss for previous hands. It was uncanny how the cards stayed clumped with a little variance you were almost able to tell when those plugs were coming. I did read in a little about in blackbelt anymore insites about actual expereinces. blackchipjim