Were they counters?

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21forme

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During my recent trip to LV I sat at a shoe game with two interesting characters:

One guy seemed to be betting a progression, or was he? He started with a $50 bet and as the count was rising so were his bets - up to $1000. He got 3 BJs in a row and I got garbage (of course) in a big count. After losing a hand, he dropped back to $50, then started jumping his bets around. At one point, in a big count, he had 16 v T and hit it. LS was available. Stupid camo or just a lucky ploppy?

The other guy looked like he had cerebral palsy, or did he? He, too, seemed to be jumping his bets around, but the bigger ones were definitely in the big counts. At one point, he left the table for a few minutes. He came back mid-shoe and dropped a purple down in a neutral count and lost it. While I was at the table, he won about 5K. Amazing act or just another lucky ploppy?
 
blackjack avenger

blackjack avenger

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The Illusion of Great Play

Any pseudo counter can make expensive camo plays. This is one thing that makes them pseudo.

Letting those big bets ride in bad situations is expensive to NO. Eating your own positive cards with a minimum bet cuts your ev about 20% as a guess. I wonder how expesive it is in a play all situation.

:joker::whip:
 
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21forme

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BJLFS said:
What is NO?
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NO is the opposite of YES :)

From bj21.com:
N0. (that's N-zero) The number of hands (sometimes expressed in hours of playing time) theoretically required to be played with a certain set of rules and strategy (count, spread etc) before the player reaches his goal to be ahead by at least one standard deviation. It has been supported as a main measure of every situation's (rules & strategy) assessment mostly by Brett Harris. It is expressed as N0 = Var / EV^2.
 
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BJLFS

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21forme said:
NO is the opposite of YES :)

From bj21.com:
N0. (that's N-zero) The number of hands (sometimes expressed in hours of playing time) theoretically required to be played with a certain set of rules and strategy (count, spread etc) before the player reaches his goal to be ahead by at least one standard deviation. It has been supported as a main measure of every situation's (rules & strategy) assessment mostly by Brett Harris. It is expressed as N0 = Var / EV^2.
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Thank you.
 
creeping panther

creeping panther

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Stories

Great and interesting stories guys:cool:

Although I really must question the wisdom of putting this information, scenario, experience, on a public site,,,,just seems not the place for it,,,agreed?????? yes,,,no...?????:)

I mean why ruin a great act for some AP?

CP
 
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kewljason

kewljason

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creeping panther said:
Great and interesting stories guys:cool:

Although I really must question the wisdom of putting this information, scenario, experience, on a public site,,,,just seems not the place for it,,,agreed?????? yes,,,no...?????:)

I mean why ruin a great act for some AP?

CP
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I can't say that I agree with you 100%, but I went ahead and removed my story as per your suggestion, just in case. :)
 
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