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Your experience does not apply to Zee. You were backed off because you did not tell them that you only playing part time and more importantly you did not look like a doctor.
On a serious note, I can understand that he does not want to accept advice but why he never says Thank you for it. It takes time to write these posts for people trying to help.
On a serious note, I can understand that he does not want to accept advice but why he never says Thank you for it. It takes time to write these posts for people trying to help.
I think this is a fair point, Zg. (or Xg), 
Back in the day of this site's "prime", 8- 9 years ago, when I was asking a lot of question and getting a lot of great advice from experienced members (and some not-so-great advice as well), one of the 'veteran' members Blackjack Avenger noted that whenever someone said or advised something that I didn't particularly want to hear, I would argue and put up a fight. But then several weeks or months later, I would have adopted that same advice into my play.
conclusion: sometimes it just takes a little while for things to sink in and to accept things that you may not want to hear.
Back in the day of this site's "prime", 8- 9 years ago, when I was asking a lot of question and getting a lot of great advice from experienced members (and some not-so-great advice as well), one of the 'veteran' members Blackjack Avenger noted that whenever someone said or advised something that I didn't particularly want to hear, I would argue and put up a fight. But then several weeks or months later, I would have adopted that same advice into my play.
conclusion: sometimes it just takes a little while for things to sink in and to accept things that you may not want to hear.
I am not sure what all this fuss is about. They flat bet me at one casino. I am trying to see what happens at a sister casino. Maybe they will flat bet me there too, maybe they will ask me to leave and just maybe they might not even know or care about the flat bet decision made at a smaller casino. Maybe they will let me play and do their own evaluation. Why is everybody having a cow?
At one casino in my home state, where I play with card, one pit guy whispered to the dealer and she started cutting the DD deck by 2/3 on one occasion. I left. Since then, I have avoided that pit guy, still play at the same casino and have won a few thousand from them since then. That particular dealer likes me, still cuts less than half a deck when dealing to me, does not change anything.
My point is that sometimes these flat bet decisions are localized and may not apply elsewhere.
At one casino in my home state, where I play with card, one pit guy whispered to the dealer and she started cutting the DD deck by 2/3 on one occasion. I left. Since then, I have avoided that pit guy, still play at the same casino and have won a few thousand from them since then. That particular dealer likes me, still cuts less than half a deck when dealing to me, does not change anything.
My point is that sometimes these flat bet decisions are localized and may not apply elsewhere.
zee just be happy you got your bankroll to over 50k. Im 10x the player you are and im 10x the counter of anyone else on these forums, but yet I run worse than anyone. God hates me, casinos cheat me, math hates me, it's just constant adversity. Count your blessings, you guys have no idea what it means to be cursed. Anyone else would've jumped off a bridge by now, but I'm used to this. Life would just be too easy if I had even half the luck of a normal person.
ZenKing, you are no doubt 10 times better than me or anyone else but it seems as if just like Muhammad Ali or Michael Jordan, you continue playing long after you should have quit. Perhaps, like them you fail to recognize that your skills may have eroded. They had the knowledge, as you do, but they simply could not implement it. Muhammad Ali ended up with Parkinson and you might end up broke.
This is the basis of (card) counter's basic strategy. The example usually used is 16 vs 10, because it is so easily understood, but there are a number of plays that go against normal basic strategy, but are the correct play at relatively low plus counts, and all counts where the counter will have larger wagers out.
So the advantage of always playing counter's basic strategy is there is no play variation (index play) that the casinos and pit sometime look for and you are playing correctly when your larger wagers are out and going against basic strategy at neutral counts, all of which is beneficial to longevity. So you might want to look up all of the counter's basic strategy plays.
So the advantage of always playing counter's basic strategy is there is no play variation (index play) that the casinos and pit sometime look for and you are playing correctly when your larger wagers are out and going against basic strategy at neutral counts, all of which is beneficial to longevity. So you might want to look up all of the counter's basic strategy plays.