To many high cards?

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dacium

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I got a count of -19 with just over 1 deck left in a 6 deck shoe. I would guess the true count was at least 15 or 16. The cut was a fair way back, maybe 30-40 cards left. I bet my max and lost 5 hands in a row, the dealer got blackjack once, and 20 three times and soft twenty once. I kept getting low stiffs. Guess its just unlucky that I got the single low cards and the dealer didn't. Anyway the count dropped about 12 in one hand because 4 people sat down and all hit stiffs to bust with two ten cards in their hands.

I ended up walking about 0.5 units up after a earlier lucky streak of about 8 blackjacks. But still I can't help but get scared on the high counts. They have never turned out good for me, yet :-(
 
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Canceler

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Just keep pluggin' away...

Everybody's got a horror story about being destroyed during a high count. This is made up for when things do finally work out. Saturday I had a couple of shoes where the count went up early and stayed up. Had a record session win which was 1.5 times my old record. And I needed it, too!
 
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BBjoe

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dacium said:
I got a count of -19 with just over 1 deck left in a 6 deck shoe. I would guess the true count was at least 15 or 16.
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Excuse me for being naive but isn't a negative count of that size exactly the opposite of what you want or was that a typo? What am I not seeing here?
 
sagefr0g

sagefr0g

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Canceler said:
Everybody's got a horror story about being destroyed during a high count. This is made up for when things do finally work out. Saturday I had a couple of shoes where the count went up early and stayed up. Had a record session win which was 1.5 times my old record. And I needed it, too!
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yep this has happened to me also. it's like you are so happy to have a great true count after so many crappy ones and then you end up getting stiffs while every one else who isn't counting gets the sweet stuff :flame: .
but it's like you say you just got to keep plugging away. these are examples of experiencing negative fluctuation when you have the advantage.
i always take solace in the knowledge that this negative fluctuation should be countered by a larger positive result in the long run. but it is a hard pill to swallow.

best regards,
mr fr0g :D
 
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ortango

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The reason the high count scares folks is because they see 5% of their trip bank roll or more on the felt and its scary to think you will lose it, especially with splitting/doubling. But you know all of the reasons why you have to do it. Nothing sucks more than a bad losing streak on a huge count. Actually there is one thing, when the ploppy next to you who lowered his bet gets all the blackjacks you've been laying the big money for.
 
Sonny

Sonny

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BBjoe said:
Excuse me for being naive but isn't a negative count of that size exactly the opposite of what you want or was that a typo? What am I not seeing here?
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Nice catch!

I'm assuming it was a typo. I don't think the dealer would get a BJ and 3 twenties at a -19 TC.

-Sonny-
 
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