How many hands/hours per session?

[MH1]

How many hours/hands do you try to get in on one trip? Seems like with Wonging in at +1 and out at -1, I'm lucky if I get 100 hands in in one trip! One store that I go to uses cards with small print, so backcounting from a distance is impossible. I feel vulnerable just standing behind table after table waiting for a +1!

 

[Jack_Black]

Don't look at the index number, look at the pips. pips are much easier to see from a distance.

 

[Lonesome Gambler]

By "small print," I'm assuming he means jumbos, which makes it very difficult to read pips from a distance.

 

[Jack_Black]

you mean like Bicycle brand Jumbos? I've never seen something like that in a casino. even if they did, the pips might be smaller, but then the index numbers would be much bigger, making it not hard to read at all.

 

[FLASH1296]

The number of hands that you will get to play when "BackCounting" depends
on numerous factors, but you will probably see between 17 and 22 hands per hour.

 

[MH1]

17-22 hands/hr

that's not so good I guess. I suppose this is one of the drawbacks of back counting! Although variance is reduced while back counting, it will take longer to get to a level that could be considered "long term".

 

[Lonesome Gambler]

Not exactly. If you watch a shoe from the shuffle and observe 30 rounds before stepping and and playing 15 before the count drops, and then you step away while observing 2 more rounds, it's the same as playing 47 rounds—not 15. You're just betting 0 units during the 32 hands where you had no edge.

 

[MH1]

Ahh yes. I just feel vulnerable after awhile just standing around not playing until TC +1. But I am getting ZERO heat spreading $25-$150 when I do come in.

 

[blackjack avenger]

keep your hands to yourself

With 4 players you will see about 100 hands an hour and play about 25. At a full table it slows to about 50 and with 1 player you see about 200.

 

[Alvaro]

You are playing fewer hands, but those hands are quality hands.

While you can do that, I think is the best move.

The problem is crowded tables.

You wait to the positive shoe and, if the table is crowded you just play a couple of hands before the count drops.

Best setting is when you can back count and there are only two or three players.

All this regardless heat.