misfitspunik
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I just started practicing the red 7 count with a six-deck shoe. My set up was that I had $200 in chips, playing a 1-5 spread and my pivot point was 50 starting at 36. The shoe was cut at 1.5 decks like they do at the Bluechip casino, where I play since I'm 2 miles from it, in Michigan City.
The first shoe, I went slow making sure that I had the count down and came out a $100 ahead even taking insurance when the count was high and winning 2 out the 3 insurance bets (I didn't take insurance when it was low). If I was at the casino I would of just left the table with the extra $100 but since I was just practicing, I had my girlfriend shuffle another shoe and played with the $300 doing the same thing. But something weird happen. The count stayed, for the first 6 hands, around 34-38 and then sky rocketed to the 50-54 range. I adjusted my bets to the count but the low cards just kept coming out with little to no high cards. I would double down on 11 and get a 2 with a count of 55 and the dealer showing a 6 and then pulling the 5 card 21.
After losing half of my chips, I dropped the counting and just went back to flat betting. The low cards kept coming with very little face cards so I started to stray a little from basic and hitting more the doubling or splitting. In the end I broke even with 40 units.
When I checked the cards that were cut out, there where a wide spread of tens and aces left.
Ok, after that long story, my two-part question is: Has this sort of thing happen to anyone else or did I just fudged the count somewhere? If so, at what point in a plus count do you leave the table if you don't see results? Like if your at +5 and you play 4 more hands and still hardly any face cards are coming out, making the count stay the same or higher, you just say "cold deck" give up and leave the table.
The first shoe, I went slow making sure that I had the count down and came out a $100 ahead even taking insurance when the count was high and winning 2 out the 3 insurance bets (I didn't take insurance when it was low). If I was at the casino I would of just left the table with the extra $100 but since I was just practicing, I had my girlfriend shuffle another shoe and played with the $300 doing the same thing. But something weird happen. The count stayed, for the first 6 hands, around 34-38 and then sky rocketed to the 50-54 range. I adjusted my bets to the count but the low cards just kept coming out with little to no high cards. I would double down on 11 and get a 2 with a count of 55 and the dealer showing a 6 and then pulling the 5 card 21.
After losing half of my chips, I dropped the counting and just went back to flat betting. The low cards kept coming with very little face cards so I started to stray a little from basic and hitting more the doubling or splitting. In the end I broke even with 40 units.
When I checked the cards that were cut out, there where a wide spread of tens and aces left.
Ok, after that long story, my two-part question is: Has this sort of thing happen to anyone else or did I just fudged the count somewhere? If so, at what point in a plus count do you leave the table if you don't see results? Like if your at +5 and you play 4 more hands and still hardly any face cards are coming out, making the count stay the same or higher, you just say "cold deck" give up and leave the table.