Tried a Couple New Cover Plays

[aslan]

Only AP can pay a hell of a lot better! :grin:

Not generally, IMHO.

Also, one of our generation's premiere APs, James Grosjean, is college educated. He began his blackjack career when he was a graduate student in mathematics.

My advice is to get a college education, then decide whether you want to pursue AP full-time. Also, in your education, avail yourself of coursework that will help you in AP. Then you will have a strong background for whichever life path you choose, and you will have something to fall back on.

Generally, I think it is easier for college educated professionals to move into six-figure annual incomes than non-college educated professionals. Of course , that is skewed by the fact that most college educated professionals are engineers, accountants or lawyers, etc., not APs.

 

[creeping panther]

Aslan

Sorry to see you are so down on things, but I dig your emoticons

Play to enjoy the "thang", whatever that is for you, and forget the pressure from others. Look around, many opportunities in the casino, a wide host of them to make money and have fun with.

It would have been nice to have met you in person, and maybe someday that will happen. As to BJ, alot of ways to attack that game and win, but you are not gonna read about them here, but you already may have them in your head and did not realize it.

CP

 

[MangoJ]

Your posts challenge them to do their job, which is to identify and back off counters. ***** Then the other side of me says to myself, KJ is smarter than anyone thinks. He is actually giving out false information to throw off those who follow his posts.

And one might anticipate, for good surveillance people it might be obvious that information given will be completely false, and will further look in a different direction. Which in turn makes it valuable to provide true information to mislead the good guys ...

Poker players know, optimum bluff is the random bluff, say when 9c hits the board, you will pick a different key card, and bluff the 4th next hand.

 

[aslan]

And one might anticipate, for good surveillance people it might be obvious that information given will be completely false, and will further look in a different direction. Which in turn makes it valuable to provide true information to mislead the good guys ...

Poker players know, optimum bluff is the random bluff, say when 9c hits the board, you will pick a different key card, and bluff the 4th next hand.

Tell that to the guy who got fired because of one of my posts.

 

[aslan]

Sorry to see you are so down on things, but I dig your emoticons

Play to enjoy the "thang", whatever that is for you, and forget the pressure from others. Look around, many opportunities in the casino, a wide host of them to make money and have fun with.

It would have been nice to have met you in person, and maybe someday that will happen. As to BJ, alot of ways to attack that game and win, but you are not gonna read about them here, but you already may have them in your head and did not realize it.

CP

Thanks, CP. I am not really that down. You have to understand that I posted just after returning from that trip. In fact, it is very uplifting that one can play 20 hours against the Evil Empire and manage to stay even. What I am coming to dislike about card counting is the same thing I disliked about pool-- it's the amount of time one has to spend and how it interferes with other more important things in my life. Maybe as a recreational player, I might try playing, say, two hours a day, or another way to do it, $500 a day. After all, it's all one continuous session.

Speaking of other ways, last week I memorized two key cards preceding two aces in 6-deck. Guess what? The two key cards came out so I bet max bet the next round. Now this was with two other players mind you. I was playing two hands and both aces fell on me in one of my hands. You guess it, I got a 5 on one and a 6 on the other, and the dealer beat me on both. :laugh:

I think the problem with my blackjack is that I am letting it manage me instead of me managing it. I have to fit it into my life, not fit my life into it. Too much of anything is no good.

We will meet when the time is right. I enjoy your posts and your support for all the players on the Forum. And any friend of Sagefr0g's cannot be a bad guy, that's for sure! I like your choice in friends.

 

[blackjack avenger]

N0 Camo?

Max bet -EV camo bets are very costly to N0, SCORE & CE.

 

[Nynefingers]

I think the problem with my blackjack is that I am letting it manage me instead of me managing it. I have to fit it into my life, not fit my life into it. Too much of anything is no good.

This is exactly why I took a few months off. It's done me well. I've caught up on a lot of things at work and at home that I'd been putting off. I've started working out again (albeit not enough) and eating better. I'm healthier, in a much better mood, and feel better in general than I have in a while. Now that I've had a break, I'm ready to get back into it, just with fewer trips playing better games.

 

[sagefr0g]

This is exactly why I took a few months off. It's done me well. I've caught up on a lot of things at work and at home that I'd been putting off. I've started working out again (albeit not enough) and eating better. I'm healthier, in a much better mood, and feel better in general than I have in a while. Now that I've had a break, I'm ready to get back into it, just with fewer trips playing better games.

hey no bull man, you did look well, when we last saw you.

 

[Nynefingers]

hey no bull man, you did look well, when we last saw you.

Well thank you kindly, good sir