Recent content by DocSkyHawk

I voted 5-7 times per week. If it isn't on the floor it is at my desk. If not there at home playing hand over hand logging it into spreadsheets.

Do not take this in a bad way but if you have only been practicing for a week or so be careful on your bets. It takes a long time to be able to keep up with a live table. People I work with can count down a deck in under 20 seconds. I have been doing it for months and have yet to come under...

The casino doesn't really care what you do with the chips. The pit supervisors are always checking on tables to see how players are doing overall. Not so much how many chips are in front of them. Some players take their chips home and come back with them. Surveillance might also be watching...

Yes, this is close to the basic sheet that is used in a rundown. Of course this one is just some of the basic functions and doesn't give a score. If you were to randomly change your bets, the score would be just some random score. This type of betting is known as WAG. Wild A^^ Guessing...

Here is a basic spreadsheet that I made to practice at home. There are two tabs at the bottom. After dealing the cards and playing them as you see fit you enter the cards into the "Count" tab using numbers. 2-9 you use the face value. Eg. 5 if hearts is "5". 10-K = 0 A = 1 You enter...

Yes the rundown is when we use spreadsheets. After we enter all of their bets along with all of the cards/count we get a percentage on how many times they correctly varied their bets with the count. It is okay to change bets at any time without getting attention. As long as it isn't matching...

I can only talk about a few things but we are trained on everything. Counting is one of the first things that we cover as well as basic strategy. Most of us are able to watch tables and tell you what the running count is. This is useful to see if someone is counting without getting into a...

I am a casino Surveillance agent and deal with these things almost everyday. Chances of getting tossed for counting when betting low amounts like that are pretty low. We have known card counters that come in and play the $3-$10 tables but never bet over $50 a hand. One player is known by name...