Abnormally large TC's

[xengrifter]

flip that ... making your money on a larger number of hands played at a smaller advantage, which deviates greatly from the normal card counter model. And at those rounds played at the larger player advantage, which are the rounds a casino might look at, you are at minimum wager.

Factoring in the much higher frequency of moderate-to-midsize counts, combined with infrequent/high volatility of the mega counts, I think a case can be made that for a player with a sufficient size BR the betting you propose can actually be more profitable, not less, and with lower, not greater variance.

 

[xengrifter]

And this coronavirus crisis may speed up such a movement, as chips are just a magnet for germs.

It would seem that this coronavirus conspiracy hoax statistical bamboozle serves many nefarious interests, and now this as well!

I still like handheld pitch, I want to touch the dirty cards! Bastards!

 

[xengrifter]

AccuZen!

Gesundheit!

 

[xengrifter]

There are some that believe that what happens at the moderate counts, counts with a player advantage of say .5 to 1.5 or 2% doesn't really matter that much. That is the basis for opposition betting.

They are mistaken, and the strategic and mathmatical efficacy of opposition betting has never been fully validated.

 

[Dog Hand]

<snip>... easy to knock it out, by using a simple RFD zapper on some of the chips, making a large bet look like a small bet to the algo alert protocol.

xengrifter,

Wouldn't "zapping" make that chip uncashable? The casinos that I have seen using RFID chips at the tables also tend to scan those chips at the cashier.

Dog Hand

 

[xengrifter]

Wouldn't "zapping" make that chip uncashable?

Maybe, but I think it would be relatively easy to avoid having to cash one.

 

[21forme]

Maybe, but I think it would be relatively easy to avoid having to cash one.

IIRC, Aria has an RFID chip in black and higher. Would be a real pain to cash only green or lower if you're playing any significant stakes, especially there where most tables are $50 and up min.

 

[JohnCrover]

So you are using Zen with side counts, less because you think it adds "power", but more because you believe it buys you cover over using Hi-Lo or vanilla Zen.

Here is why that logic is wrong. While I can't speak to your "local" casino specifically, most casinos now use computer analysis for their evaluations. And if your casino isn't it likely will sooner rather than later. Your assumption, seems to be that the computer default is set to Hi-Lo, so you need to move away from Hi-Lo or a count like Zen that is going to correlate closely with a Hi-Lo analysis.

But the computer evaluation is not set to Hi-lo. It is set to perfect value of each card. So the higher a count you use, the more side counts you use, is going to result in you correlating MORE with the computer not less. So cover is out the window, you are doing more harm than good.

I apologize if this is too personal so feel free not to answer.
How much $$$$$ are you pulling a year in LV?

 

[KewlJ]

I apologize if this is too personal so feel free not to answer.
How much $$$$$ are you pulling a year in LV?

I have shared that information for years, only because I wanted to show what kind of money a solo, mid-level player could make. But sharing that came with a lot of grief, so I have stopped. If this infomation is essential for you to determine my credibility (it shouldn't be), I don't think you will have to dig to hard to find it.

 

[xengrifter]

IIRC, Aria has an RFID chip in black and higher. Would be a real pain to cash only green or lower if you're playing any significant stakes, especially there where most tables are $50 and up min.

Avoidance of cashing out chips with
zapped RFIDs would not be difficult.

 

[JohnCrover]

I have shared that information for years, only because I wanted to show what kind of money a solo, mid-level player could make. But sharing that came with a lot of grief, so I have stopped. If this infomation is essential for you to determine my credibility (it shouldn't be), I don't think you will have to dig to hard to find it.

Thank you for your answer!