Recent content by Persnickety1

During negative counts you bet small, therefore you lose small. You tend to not double-down as much, and you are not likely to bust as often. Shirts are not lost during horribly negative counts, the loss is pretty much negligible if you have a sound betting strategy and a decent bankroll...

I'm sure he meant to say "shoe" rather than "round". He appears to describe the kind of ASM the Ferret mentioned. None of the CSMs I ever saw have a lifting tray like that.

Thankfully I haven't seen any Mindplay or other fancy card scanning tables in my neck of the woods. I will agree with you that those should be avoided. Not because I believe the order of cards being spit out can be specified, but because the software analyzes each player's patterns taking into...

I do not agree with your logic regarding automatic shufflers (ASMs). What you witnessed was just coincidence. For a simple counter, it just doesn't matter for how long the decks are being shuffled, counting doesn't work that way. Yes, there are tables with sophisticated card scanning...

That depends on the game rules, on penetration, and on how good a person is at handling basic strategy and at thinking under pressure. Typically, at true count +2 the player begins to have a slight advantage. The shoe is still salvageable at that point. Think of that card as just one of the...

Yes, I am a counter, and I use Hi-Low. My betting strategy (True count): less than +2 - $ table minimum +2 - $20 +3 - $30 - 2 hands if available +4 - $40 - 2 hands if available +5 - $50 - 2 hands if...

How much EV am I losing if I were to use the "Dealer hits soft 17" basic strategy at a "Dealer stands on soft 17" table? Playing the correct S17 BS would gain .22 EV for my game. The rules of the game are: 6 Decks, Double Any 2 Cards, Double After Split, Late Surrender, Dealer Peeks...

Once in a while the dealer picks up a busted hand before I get the chance to see those cards. As long as that doesn't happen very often, I continue counting the rest of the hands as nothing happened. I write-off those uncounted cards, and accept the idea that the penetration just got a...

There are many good EV calculators available online where I can research what the house edge is given a set of table rules. Can anybody please point me to a web site, preferably freeware, with calculators or graphs that could help me adjust the EV of a game for a specific penetration...

I have a bankroll of $5000. My bet spread is $3-$50. I bet table minimum ($3) when true count is less than 2, $20 when TC=2, 2X$30 when TC=3, 2X$40 when TC=4, 2X$50 when TC equals or is greater than 5. I currently don't worry about camouflage. I play a 6 deck, H17, DAS, peek, no surrender...

When I compare apples against oranges, I'll pick oranges all the time. Because I like citrus better.

Did he ever provide a shred of evidence supporting that he might be a master hole carder, or are we supposed to believe he is the hole card guru simply because of the user ID he chose for himself? I don't want to check out his old posts and find the answer myself because too many obscenities...

Actually just about everyone in the country had the chance to see Ken Smith in action several times, on CBS, in primetime, on Ultimate Blackjack Tour. As for Zengrifter, I don't doubt his skills for a second, and anyone capable of milking stinky rich, greedy people out of some of their...

Let's not laugh at other people The actions of one player do affect the outcome of the game every time, it is a fact. Doesn't matter where the player is sitting, whether or not the player plays by Basic Strategy, whether or not the player likes to wong, the decision of one player affects...

Did they claim you were illegally parked? And how did they come up with $3000 in fees? I assume they didn't admit doing it out of spite.