camo = wong more
I play longer session than many. I probably also use more cammo than many.
- The longer sessions is obviously an EV +.
- The more cammo is obviously an EV -
All the input up here is great. One person I read before said it best. "the best counter is the the one that looks JUST like a ploppy, but they are almost always winning"
Many wong-in, wong-out aspects can be correlated to ploppy behavior.
If the count goes from TC 1 to TC and I want to switch from 1 to 2 hands. I might not do it always like clockwork on the dot. (many times I will)
- I like to look for a hand in which EVERYONE (or most people lost)...then I will announce that I am "changing the flow".
The ploppies here in Asia (Korea) are huge flow junkies. It's comical inside, when you see a TC-8 shoe near it's end and all the ploppies do NOT want a new player to end, b.c the "flow is good"...um yea the flow is good b/c you used up all the high cards dummy! lol At any rate, i digrress..
TC goes from 1 to 2, dealer gets a blackjack-----> I am going to CHANGE this flow, and take the flow away from the dealer, you tell your "teammates". As you switch from 1 to 2 hands.
TC goes from 0 to -2, dealer wins, everyone loses----> I am going to NOT play a few rounds, so I can hope to alter the flow, and help us out
It's all conformational bias.
Just think (or make yourself almost seem to believe) that wonging is directly related to what these people call "flow".
You will likely get less heat from the casino (b/c you look like a flow believing idiot). ANd you are less likely to encounter that whistle blower mad ploppy.
And when everytime you see to make a hand change from 0 to 1 to 2, it seems to NOT help out the "team", and let's say you have a disgrunted player to your left and to your right....then OH WELL. Just b/c the "take one for the team" routine did not work, (however, it actually usually does very well). I just simply say "I am a gambler, and I feel a flow, and I always try to keep my flow, so that the dealer is always off guard).
This sounds about as illogical, and moronic as possible, yet that's what we want to exude.
Most peoples (ploppies) memories are VERY short. No one thinks about the last 18 hands, they just think about that last 1 hand.
So for wonging out, I may win 7 hands in a row. I just never wong out after a win. (gamblers mentality always lets it ride....) So i make a tiny sacrifice to EV, and when the count goes neg...i just decide the first LOSING hand I leave. I may go on and win 8 hands in a row, but when that 9th one comes and i lose, I then sign and roll my eyes in frustration and say something about terrible luck and walk away. No one was paying attention to your last 9 hands, they were paying attention to their own anyhow.
Ill say things such as "how is the flow here" "hows the table been flowing, etc etc". Well im here to WONG...(cough) i mean improve the flow.
I find its much more pleasant sounding (well it appears to be) to the reaction of the pit crew.
I love being questioned on Index plays. It offers a great opportunity to let EVERYONE KNOW...that "I don't play by the book". I play on "hunches". Yet another perfect ploppy mask. Since the 12 v 4 and 16 v 0 are going to be shifting changes every shoe. When the soft 19 comes up against the 5, with the monster TC +9 count, its something like "I am going home UP, or going home broke!" with the maniac look of an obsessed ploppy in my eyes.
You must embrace the ploppy and study him, and appear just like him.
There are only 2 types of cover:
- cover which you sacrifice the optimal bet to reduce heat
- cover which has no relation to the bet, as has to do with personality, behavior, appearance, etc.
The more we can achieve of the later, the less we hopefully need of the prior.
aplogize to the pro's who this is all common sence to, some of this was typed out as self re-inforcement as well.... thanks