Another bad session, running out of money, over 200 hours in

Nightshifter

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#41
Playallin said:
How many times do the decks have to be run through the machine to be random? If ever.
Playallin… how you doing :) Depends on what method is being employed. If the table has sensors under the beating spots, then it's just up to machine according to the program … you just have to be observant... if a 6 deck shoe suddenly goes from normal distribution to hills and valleys of high and low cards just from one shuffle through... something is off... you can try that and you'll never see a deck put in this order of extreme just after one shuffle through from a game that's was going along from what would considered to be within the norm. Now if it's set up in the block of cards (6 or 8 decks) because the knowledge of how the shuffler shuffles as to perpetuate clumps that create a wipe out game for unsuspecting players... then you have to wait for to get through what the house (unknown to most players) calls the soaking cycle. It'll go through a peak that's so bad you'll lose almost every hand in the shoe... then it'll just break up in to normal distribution like a clump orgasm... that's the time to sit down and play. What I'm saying falls outside the bell curve... and when it falls out to often to be dismissed as random... something isn't right ;) But from an average... about 20-24 units per shoe... so if they're using 2 6 Deck trays... that 40-48 unit drop to get out of that soaking cycle... now that's if both of the 6 Decks are being manipulated... sometimes they're not... it's just one. Observation and experience is the key to all of this... Card Counting, money management and shrewd play absolutely works if implemented with zero error (well maybe one or 2 here and there and there's a lot of technique to be employed which is nothing new to most advanced players here...) but will not work when the cards have been manipulated out of their natural context of events.

Again this is just an average of from my experience being a dealer and mileage will vary ;) I started out doing private events and actually had people offer me money on the side (later after the ordeal was over) if I could make them win so they could get the grand prize... like a new computer system. So don't think some form of cheating doesn't go on … money is a very good persuader :p
 
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Playallin

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#42
One thing that I have noticed that card clumping happens more often in the morning when fresh decks are in play rather than in the evening when the cards have run through the shuffler. This is what I have seen happening for about the last 8 years. I have been playing BJ for 20 years and never seen it happen so much. I have counted 300 shoes and about 100 of them I consider to be excessive in clumping. In one shoe I saw 19 face cards in a row and not one ace. Don't know if it means anything but it sure will make you think.
 

Rebecca C

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#43
Playallin said:
One thing that I have noticed that card clumping happens more often in the morning when fresh decks are in play rather than in the evening when the cards have run through the shuffler. This is what I have seen happening for about the last 8 years. I have been playing BJ for 20 years and never seen it happen so much. I have counted 300 shoes and about 100 of them I consider to be excessive in clumping. In one shoe I saw 19 face cards in a row and not one ace. Don't know if it means anything but it sure will make you think.
Do you ever find "card clumping" by suit? I mean clubs, hearts, etc, not a casino suit. If it exists on a royal match game, PM me and go clobber it.
 

Playallin

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#44
Rebecca C said:
Do you ever find "card clumping" by suit? I mean clubs, hearts, etc, not a casino suit. If it exists on a royal match game, PM me and go clobber it.
At one time they had royal match but no more. The card clumping I noticed where all different suits.
 
#45
Anyone have a link to the interview Munchkin did not that long ago talking about how when he started he just could not win and almost threw in the towel? That was a good, relatable interview, worth listening to if anyone has the link...?
 
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