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A personal opionion in relation to this thread and another. Is it possible the reported losses are linked to a lack of proper and disiplined wonging out ? My buddy and I have said to each other time and again, it is no good to be a counter if the count is always (exagerating) negative. So you...

*laughs* Yeah, it was a good time. My loss wasnt a bad one, I have had worse. I just was not winning the big bets, I won more on lower Tc's, just that kind of night. The big winner did by drinks and grub: much to my delight. Anytime we hop in my stang and look for (new to us) action, it is...

-situation- My buddy and I are scoping out establisments in our area to see how accurate their ads for "liberal blackjack rules" are. After driving by a few that looked "too" shady for us to want to go in, we see a place to our right, and pull my mustang in via 'powerslide'. (it came up fast...

All the profiling articles I have read state the white, bearded, under-dressed, studious looking male are the big red suv in the sea of white geos. So I would say dress a part... Business, pimpish, or possibly something more extreme if necessary. Normal people dont go gambling dressed like its...

Peace and Goodwill to all

I went over your calculations and have a question. How do we factor in then the number of Decks. In a Six Deck shoe it is obvious that it is more likely to catch a card of the same suit after the first card, because there is no longer just 4 suits there are 6 times of each suit. So then instead...

Re: A Real Quick Rough Calculation Wow, so the half a bet unit payoff change for (any first two cards suited) makes a tremendous difference ! I would have thought the greater payoff on Royal Match and the additional payoff on suited naturals would have more than compensated for the half unit...

I posted a little while ago on this topic, but i did some more research and thought a "bump" was in order. In Wong's book he describes the Royal Match Side Bet. With 1D you are at a severe disadvantage like -3%, this bet then sucks. He then says in 6D you have an advantage of 1.3%. This...

Thanks for the response LTC. I keep forgetting to bring the Wong book that has the exact number for Royal Match 6D with me when I use this computer. But I am fairly confident that the bet Wong described had a top payoff of 3:1 and he said it thus had a slight advantage as you said, even without...

I have spent the last month or so reading and re-reading the Wong trilogy (Basic Bj, Pro Bj, and Bj Secrets =P )I ran into a paragraph in one book that was repeated in another that said Royal Match bet in a Six Deck game with 2 to 1 Suited and 3 to 1 Royal was a good bet. My local Card Room (15...

Re: 2K Lay it out for me Rob ! I follow what your saying. I am not as quick with numbers as I would like to be but I have read enough to know that if I played with an average bet of 12$ with an average advantage of 1.25%, 50 hands an hour, 5-60$ bet spread, with a 3k bankroll I would make like...

Amazing... Maybe you could send that dealer my way... ? =P Except I think I would have to say, "Plus five ?? what does that mean ?"

Going on the topic of Progessionisms, and other lines of falicy (not phalicy). I had a dealer tonight at my local card room suggest that I use a progression system, and actually *boggle* took time to try and explain and convince me to do it. I have found that very few dealers around here know...

Sadly Mayor this game is the most common in my area. Actually I have not yet seen another. There might have been like a 4 deck game at the EQC but it had a $25 min. which is beyound my game/bankroll at this point. Ah well, Next week I am going to d/l that CBJN and find out where I will need to...

Re: IBM Thanks again for the responses. Rob I will get back to you in about 6 months re: joining your team, Unless you give me a good reason why not to wait. From what I have seen I would need to wager between 1,500 - 2,500 to cash out these bonuses. At this point I am not ready to do that in...