Recent content by jim davis

For the 8 deck shoe game, do you need at least a 1 to 8 bet spread to have any chance of profitability --- or can you get by with 1 to 4 ?

I'm not promoting this first base theory, I'm just trying to find out if anyone has used it. As far as to what has been posted : 1. The average dealer can not perform a perfect shuffle every time, maybe close to it, but not perfect, especially after they've been dealing for 6 hours in an...

The theory was that if someone was shuffling 6 decks, the shuffle would not be random since the way the dealer picks up the bust cards and places them in the discard tray, the 10's would clump together since most of the bust cards are 10's....and shuffling 6 decks by hand would make the 10's to...

Has anyone heard of any practical first base strategy ? I knew of one where if there was more than 50% ten value cards on the current hand and the last card dealt was also a 10, then bet maximum on the next hand on the assumption that you will be on first base and the first card dealt for the...