Recent content by throwaway

Yes, when things get this bad I have to start questioning absolutely everything. I just couldn't find any indications of cheating. The new cards are checking face up, and the dealer is not pulling the second card out of the shoe every time that I am watching. Again, I keep running sims, and...

Yes, I am steaming a lot! But as I learned from observing a very good player I met early on, I take it out on everything but my betting and playing decisions :) For example I will punch the table, stand up and kick my chair, and often berate the dealer endlessly. I have found that last...

Thanks for this. This is exactly the kind of stat I was looking for. Everything seems to point towards finding something better to do. I started with very low expectations, but even still it does not seem worth it anymore. I feel sorry for some of the other novices I have met along the way...

Yes it would have been nice to skip that little downswing. That was just the perfect storm of the count going through the roof on every shoe and me losing every hand. I wish I had been underfunded, then I could have quit this stupid game much earlier! I do use a better count than Hi-Lo, but...

~400 hours and my main game was a shoe with good rules: S17 LS etc.

I am a somewhat regular poster on these forums, but I am using a new account because I don't feel like discussing with my friends just yet. To sum things up, I have been losing consistently for 10 months straight. I finished 2010 down 138 times my max bet, and at one point I was down 173 max...