What a wild ride

#1
My experience is definitely an example of huge variance.

I've been playing BJ regularly for the last 5 years, and began as a typical progressionist ploppy, taking bad advice from "wise" players at the table (don't mess up the flow, the 2 is the dealer's ace), playing CSMs, all the bad stuff.

After I had accumulated a 10K loss over 3 years, I really felt like giving up.

Then I discovered sites like cardcounter.com that had winning advice and stories from the field. I decided I was tired of losing (no, really this time) and I tried Hi/Lo, but settled on KO for simplicity.

It's taken a couple of years and many hundreds of hours at the tables to finally develop the discipline and nerves to bet according to the count no matter what. Sure you just lost 3 rounds with max bets in a row, but if you pull out now with a high count, you're doomed to be casino road-kill.

After many devastating losing sessions and seemingly miraculous wins, I'm in positive territory.

I guess the point of this post is really to thank the community for sharing, and hopefully provide inspiration to someone else.
 

Mayor

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#3
What are you talking about?

Let's suppose he is a casino spy posting for some reason about some made up experience. What would the point then be for doing this?

Occam's razor does not side with you. The conclusion that is *easiest* is that the poster is relating an aspect of his actual casino blackjack experience.

What the poster does not say, however, and is implied by his handle, is the "BC" part. Almost certainly this refers to Grosjean's "Beyond Counting." In this case, I assume this poster has made a significant sum at the tables, and is just being kind by refering to the blackjack part of it.

--Mayor
 
#6
re:What are you talking about?

BC Boy posted under a thread titled "Cascades Casino" over rge21.com a few weeks ago. The casino is located in Langley BC, Canada, so we could also assume that the term "BC" meant the Canadian province.
 
#7
But of course,

"BC" could also mean "Betting Correlation".

Actually, I'm a friend and former team member of Joker's Wild, who was the thread starter of the post "Cascades Casino" on the rge21.com website. Truth is, he has played in a big city in the BC province which has a lot of casinos, and his previous history was the same as what BC Boy has stated: he was an active player for 5 years, and he played CSM's (to keep the RC). He made all his $$ back (and 10 times more) not because he played in those casinos with lousy rules; rather, he backed my fellow team members up to play for high stakes.

One more important thing: He got arrested and put in a psych ward from one of the big clubs for over a year, and, as I've contacted him lately, he told me he's gonna sue them for negligence and assault........

Therefore, I assumed that BC Boy IS a casino spy.

Joker's Wild, go get 'em!!!
 
#8
Thanks for your support

I've never played on any CSM's since I became an accomplished player. Also, I do not use KO. I use a multi-level count instead.

I've been going in and out of casinos since I was 16. However, I've never seen anybody as ignorant as the casino that got me arrested. They sent their staff to track me down; they even asked the cops and security companies to get my identity. Such "invasion of privacy" is totally unacceptable. So how are all these assaults gonna stop if I don't beat the s**t out of them?

Hey, if any reader of this thread is a casino employee of that casino, get me arrested!! I'M COUNTING CARDS!!
 
#9
An idea

Instead of suing the casino for $50 million over the provincial court here in BC, I might wanna get that surveillance tape of how they tortured me and dragged me out of the casino. I'll play it on one of those big screens out of a major Vegas casino. Just can't imagine what people are gonna think about their barbaric behavior!! LOL!! It's better than getting $50M, and I'm sure the high rollers would leave their properties immediately!!
 
#10
My own "countermeasures"

Fortunately, not all the staff from that casino are bad. I recently talked to 2 of them and they agreed to be my '007s', ie. they are gonna help me in duplicating secret files, surveillance tapes, computer disks, CD-ROMS, and anything that is of great help in suing the casino successfully. I'll conceal their names until the trial, of course.

And just in case they lost their job because the casino is out of business ( or, worse yet, they got fired ), I could help them get better-paid jobs in AC, Foxwoods, or even Vegas. Some of my former team members used to work there.

THEIR END IS NEAR!!
 
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