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Memorising the card sequence in a stack of 54 decks is a remarkable feat but quite different to card counting in Blackjack. There are tricks to memorising sequences based on cross referencing. He took a long time to memorise the stack and quite a long time to recall it. That's because he had to...

Aussiecounter, I don't disagree with you. I would also find it very unnsatisfactory quitting with only a £5 profit. My point is that a £60 BR is too small for £5 or £10 bets. By all means go for bigger win targets but start with a BR big enough to give you a realistic chance of achieving it...

2deal2, I sounds to me like you must be over-betting for the size of your pot and settting yourself too high a goal. With a pot of only £60 you should not make bets more than £1 or £2 or you will not be able to sustain the inevitable down swings. Trying to get from £60 to £100 with only £1...

2deal2, It really depends on your risk threshold. The higher your win target the higher the risk because Blackjack is steaky and you won't achieve a win target in a straight line. You will go up and down and you might nearly reach the target on many occasions before being sent down on another...

2deal2, I haven't used private rooms but I think the only difference is that you can be selective about about your co-players in a private room or private game. You might want to pre-arrange a game with friends or colleagues and keep out strangers or riff-raff. The actual game and odds...

Can anybody explain why Pharaoh's Blackjack tips advise standing on 12 against a dealers 3 for both the single and six deck games? I thought the general basic stategy was to hit. Do the rules for their games change the usual basic strategy?

2deal2, Why haven't you quit when you are £100-£120 ahead each session? 100+% profit is good and much more than probability would predict. Do you really expect to be able to keep winning and beat the casino? You are certain to lose eventually if you keep playing. The longer you keep playing...

As I have posted elsewhere on this board, I believe internet casino software is rigged to generate unrealistic loosing runs in order to trigger players' stop losses. It probably is balanced in the long term by less steep favourable runs to satisfy audits of the so called random number generator...

Mike, I think streaks mostly favouring the dealer is in the nature of the game of blackjack. It is certainly my experience. Streaks should be expected with real cards due to clumping and changes in the concentrations of tens and aces. That after all is the basis of card counting. When cards...

Mikebear, As you might guess from my user name, hit & run is my preferred option but I am prepared for an extended siege if things don't go to plan early on. Everyone to their own thing I say. I don't think I could last an 8 hour stint.

Mikeaber, Yes, there are several casinos near to where I live in the UK Midlands. Gambling, including internet gambling, is totally tax free in the UK at the current time. Casinos are booming with many super casinos planned in most cities. I only used 50$ as an example. My point was that...

Liquid Chips - There is definitely something very fishy about the duration and frequency of losing streaks on internet blackjack games. I know some sites tell you that the 'so called' random number generator on real money games is different to the ones used for fun games. The number sequences...

Canceler - Thanks for replying. Actually I was posting tongue in cheek ;) . I wouldn't use on-line casinos for anything except fun and a bit of bonus 'abuse'. Using Aspinall's "play for fun" games I have detected that their software is reactive which I find alarming. For instance if you...

Leonshuffle, Thanks for your reply. Yes I can see that logically, assuming hands are randomised, it should make no difference whether I stay at one casino playing the same session or move on. Yet when I practice on free games using perfect BS I usually am able to get ahead at some point quite...

From my own experience (not much) and from what I have read there are three basic elements to playing blackjack: game-play management (basic strategy); betting management (card counting, progressive systems, etc); money management (setting stop losses, quitting while ahead, etc)...