Raising After A Loss?

[frankied53]

i respectfully disagree with Ian Anderson on this one...

I read "Burning The Tables" from cover to cover some time ago, and use many of his techniques of cover play. This advice though, I don't happen to agree with. I always increase after a loss, if the TC has notched up appropriately. It looks like a quite natural ploppy play to chase after losses this way. The easisest way to do that is to spread to 2 spots. Since you just lost the hand , you want to 'change it up' by adding a spot (it's better if the entire table lost that round). Perfectly natural. Some casinos force you to double a minimum bet if you play 2 spots... which provides perfect cover to get even more onto the felt! So in a perfectly natural looking way you can go from 1 X $15 to 2 X $30 for example... I always try to have an empty spot to spread to beside me , for just this purpose.....

FrankD

 

[zengrifter]

The infamous Ian Andersen often stated in Burning The Tables that he never raised his bet after a loss under any circumstances (even for his Green gambit).

That said:

1. Do you raise your bet after a loss?

2. If so, how much do you raise your bet by (assume the TC just jumped from 0 or 1 to 3 or 4 and you've got just 1 or 2 units out there)?

3. How much do you feel you can safely raise by after a loss and just appear like everyone else: guessing a parlay is always OK?

4. Or do you never raise your bet after a loss (and agree with Andersen that doing so is suicide and a major red flag to the pit)?

Best regards,

FD

Many gamblers double up after a loss. zg

 

[zengrifter]

I think Blackjack for Blood is still a very valuable book for even today's decent single and double deck games.

As long as they understand that the betting strategies in the book
render the entire system ineffective for todays games, mostly. zg