I am not your typical big gambler. You will find me at the $15-$25 dollar tables. I started getting into the counting card craze about 4 years ago. I was easily able to count at home at a pretty good success rate so I gave it a shot in a casino on my next Vegas trip. I was a terrible failure, with so much going on, waitresses, dealers and other people I couldn't keep track of the cards. I ended up losing more than I had ever lost. I knew counting worked so it was onto plan B which I devised on the plane ride home.
My girlfriend (GF) and I would go to the Conn. casinos (Foxwoods, Mohegan Sun) when they were at their busiest, Friday and Saturday nights. We would sit together, as the cards were dealt I would keep a running count of all the high cards(10-A) and her the low cards (2-6). when the shoe was about a little more than 2/3 gone she would tell me what number she was at. I would subtract that number from my number and figure out the true count and bet accordingly. Her telling me the number was not as hard as it would seem, it was busy so there was a lot of noise around the table and I would ask her a random question like what the temp suppose to be tomorrow or something that would require her to give a a mid-high double digit answer. I never increased my bets enough to draw attention, maybe from $25 to $50 -$75 and my GF would usually keep betting the table minimum. If the true count was really in our favor I had a way to signal that to her so she could also raise her bet (usually by asking her if she talked to Beth, a friend who was a pothead and always stoned aka High) . We no longer do it this way because I can count without a problem but it was a great alternative until I learned to perfect it. Even to this day if I find myself at times getting distracted I will use my chip stack to help me, whatever the count is I put that many chips in a stack.
I consider myself a student of card count practice all the time. The most we ever won was a 4 day trip to Vegas when we left winning a combined $3,100 betting at the min $10-$15 dollar tables and upper the bet to $75 and a few times $100 when the shoe called for it.
If I had the finincial resources to cover me I would bet more.
My girlfriend (GF) and I would go to the Conn. casinos (Foxwoods, Mohegan Sun) when they were at their busiest, Friday and Saturday nights. We would sit together, as the cards were dealt I would keep a running count of all the high cards(10-A) and her the low cards (2-6). when the shoe was about a little more than 2/3 gone she would tell me what number she was at. I would subtract that number from my number and figure out the true count and bet accordingly. Her telling me the number was not as hard as it would seem, it was busy so there was a lot of noise around the table and I would ask her a random question like what the temp suppose to be tomorrow or something that would require her to give a a mid-high double digit answer. I never increased my bets enough to draw attention, maybe from $25 to $50 -$75 and my GF would usually keep betting the table minimum. If the true count was really in our favor I had a way to signal that to her so she could also raise her bet (usually by asking her if she talked to Beth, a friend who was a pothead and always stoned aka High) . We no longer do it this way because I can count without a problem but it was a great alternative until I learned to perfect it. Even to this day if I find myself at times getting distracted I will use my chip stack to help me, whatever the count is I put that many chips in a stack.
I consider myself a student of card count practice all the time. The most we ever won was a 4 day trip to Vegas when we left winning a combined $3,100 betting at the min $10-$15 dollar tables and upper the bet to $75 and a few times $100 when the shoe called for it.
If I had the finincial resources to cover me I would bet more.
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