if i'm counting correctly, Billy, you had 11 trips and a net loss.
no info provided how the money went by number of hands played, or hours played or even just by sessions. just curious did you ever get up on your money? did you ever take a break along the way and determine how things were going with respect to your expectations? did you ever ask your self just how proficient of a card counter am i and try and measure that degree against the most perfect player in the world (such as a computer or CP
)?
but your right i suppose, counting cards against blackjack as far as advantage play is like ExhibitCAA has mentioned pretty much analogous to evolution where a tadpole was squiggling in the mud and slime only to eventually grow some legs and hop onto some dry land. :laugh:
just guessing because i haven't seen where you provided info on how you was betting, but i'd guess if you had a sim or penciled out the numbers correctly you might have figured a more conservative betting spread that might have been a bit less painful.
never been to AC but from what i know of it, i'd say it's more a place where the 'big boys' might be able to work something as far as blackjack goes.
probably with my little bank roll if i ever wanted to play there i'd just flat bet as low as possible and hope for some positive standard deviation and quit if i hit some, lol. maybe not even play any bj there and see if there are any better opportunities for making money there.
but anyway, yeah counting cards, especially against games the likes of AC (unless your heavily banked and have a load of tricks up your sleeve) is quite a trick to make it 'work'.
better games and it might 'work' better for the little guys such as me.
