TakingTheHouse
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I was going to blog about it on my blog (Archive copy), but I figured I'd get more of a response here.
I just read through the first half of Blackjack Bluebook II, just got done with the chapter on the A/10 count. I read it over once and did no practicing, and didn't plan on putting it to use tonight when I went to the casino (just wanted to go play BS with my friend for a bit and have some fun).
We walked around the tables for 25 minutes at Fallsview in Ontario, and waited behind some for 10-15 minutes and couldn't find an opening anywhere. Finally we get an opening at a table that was just starting a brand new shoe (they use automatic shufflers and rotate 2 shoes). So I sit down and thought "New shoe...all I have to do is count the 10's and Aces in the first 2 decks. I know if it's under 35 it's going to be pretty good, and over 35 probably not that good. I don't know the exact betting scheme, but we'll just at least see what the count is."
The table is a $25 min and I bought in for $500. The first 8 hands in a row I lose which really sucked, but didn't phase me at all because I only counted ELEVEN 10's/Aces in the first 2 decks. My eyes lit up and I started betting $50. The cards still seemed crappy and I kept losing over and over. I lost 14 of the first 15 hands. I have about $150 left and when all was said and done, there were 8 ACES on the board at ONE TIME. One guy drew 5 aces! I of course didn't get any, I almost always started with a 13 or 14. The couple times I snagged a 20, I'd push. The deck started soooo cold, and it was weird that it just never seemed to heat up at one point at all. Everybody was losing almost every hand.
I ran out of money just as the shoe ended. I won 2 hands the entire shoe after only 11 A/10's came out of the first 2 decks.
Bad beats suck! /end rant
I just read through the first half of Blackjack Bluebook II, just got done with the chapter on the A/10 count. I read it over once and did no practicing, and didn't plan on putting it to use tonight when I went to the casino (just wanted to go play BS with my friend for a bit and have some fun).
We walked around the tables for 25 minutes at Fallsview in Ontario, and waited behind some for 10-15 minutes and couldn't find an opening anywhere. Finally we get an opening at a table that was just starting a brand new shoe (they use automatic shufflers and rotate 2 shoes). So I sit down and thought "New shoe...all I have to do is count the 10's and Aces in the first 2 decks. I know if it's under 35 it's going to be pretty good, and over 35 probably not that good. I don't know the exact betting scheme, but we'll just at least see what the count is."
The table is a $25 min and I bought in for $500. The first 8 hands in a row I lose which really sucked, but didn't phase me at all because I only counted ELEVEN 10's/Aces in the first 2 decks. My eyes lit up and I started betting $50. The cards still seemed crappy and I kept losing over and over. I lost 14 of the first 15 hands. I have about $150 left and when all was said and done, there were 8 ACES on the board at ONE TIME. One guy drew 5 aces! I of course didn't get any, I almost always started with a 13 or 14. The couple times I snagged a 20, I'd push. The deck started soooo cold, and it was weird that it just never seemed to heat up at one point at all. Everybody was losing almost every hand.
I ran out of money just as the shoe ended. I won 2 hands the entire shoe after only 11 A/10's came out of the first 2 decks.
Bad beats suck! /end rant
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