This is the only flaw in my game and I'm not embarrassed to admit it. It's gotten so bad, I refuse to play and have refused to play a certain number of stores for the past year while I've been in vegas. Not to mention I could have also gone to Southern California and play, but I also don't trust Indian Casinos so I only went there once and never again. Some of these vegas and SoCal stores offer great backcounting opportunities as well so this paranoia has definitely been -EV for me if the games are indeed legit. It has cost me from getting more hours in and has just caused added stress. I just wish there was some way I could get some full transparency and just put this to rest once and for all. To name as few, here it goes. MGM, Caesars, Bellagio, Harrahs, Planet Hollywood, and Bally's. I just know these shady casinos make the rules in this town and run the courts, and we all know casinos are irrational, so the cheating is always in the back of my mind when it comes to the big time stores. Add in the fact, I do really well at pretty much every small store I've played at in my career or stores that are not in the MGM or Caesars chain.
If I could get this cheating stuff out of my head, I feel like my game would greatly improve as well as my results, but I just can't seem to get over it and I dont know why. Maybe this is starting to turn into an obsession because the more this lingers, the worse it's going to get for me. Blackjack would be so much more enjoyable if I just knew I was getting a fair game and can just let the math play itself out. As crazy as this thread sounds, it's really affecting me and hopefully someone has some ideas so I can just play a lot more relaxed and not think twice after a big loss or multiple big losses at the same stores. I've tried to think about it logically and went over different scenarios on why the game couldn't be rigged and that lasted for a while, but then the ASM clumping and ASM fixing B.S on these forums started getting into my head as well and I'm still not totally sold on my previous cheating theories. All of this is just adding unneeded stress and is making blackjack even more depressing to play. Being -1SD from EV is bad enough, this cheating stuff is just making it unhealthy at this point.
Lastly, this is all regarding SHOE GAMES since that is all I play.
If I could get this cheating stuff out of my head, I feel like my game would greatly improve as well as my results, but I just can't seem to get over it and I dont know why. Maybe this is starting to turn into an obsession because the more this lingers, the worse it's going to get for me. Blackjack would be so much more enjoyable if I just knew I was getting a fair game and can just let the math play itself out. As crazy as this thread sounds, it's really affecting me and hopefully someone has some ideas so I can just play a lot more relaxed and not think twice after a big loss or multiple big losses at the same stores. I've tried to think about it logically and went over different scenarios on why the game couldn't be rigged and that lasted for a while, but then the ASM clumping and ASM fixing B.S on these forums started getting into my head as well and I'm still not totally sold on my previous cheating theories. All of this is just adding unneeded stress and is making blackjack even more depressing to play. Being -1SD from EV is bad enough, this cheating stuff is just making it unhealthy at this point.
Lastly, this is all regarding SHOE GAMES since that is all I play.
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