Mr. T said:
I dont mean a betting system.
When do you stop playing, win or lose. Do you play on the table only if the other players tell you the dealer is not that strong.
You must have experienced the occasions when the dealer just wont bust. You feel your shirt is being rip off your back. You lose 5 or 10 times in a row. You double 10 against 6. you get 20 and the dealer get 21. Do you still carry on regardless or stop at some pre-determined point. If you are winning when is enough and collect up your winnings.
i wouldn't pay attention to what the other players say about the dealer or the cards as it is most likely those other players are ploppies that haven't much of a clue as to the nature of the remaining pack advantage wise.
yeah sometimes you just can't seem to win advantage or not. but at least when you are playing at an advantage you are racking up positive expected value whether you are winning or not. that is to your advantage for future play. the current losing is but a blip on the long term events radar screen.
as long as you are playing to an advantage you can just keep playing. heh, heh you can never win enough, you'll always want more.
but the above not withstanding i believe there is a point about quiting time and playing onwards time that differs according to what kind of player you are. are you a pro that must grind out as many hands as possible in a reasonable span of time so that you can provide a roof over your head and bread and butter on the table. are you a recreational player that wants to crank out as many benjamins as possible who has relatively unlimited time to play. or perhaps you are a recreational player that wants to crank out as many benjamins as possible but who doesn't have an unlimited time to play.
the later i believe may do well to take a breather from play if and when he should be so lucky to make a substantial profit after a 'reasonable' amount of play. but the pro and the recreational advantage player who has loads of time should play on come hell or high water as long as they have the advantage and want to play more.
another point with regard to quiting when losing badly is that it may be you have reason to believe you are making some serious mistakes but are not quite sure what is going down. that would be a good time to cool it and try and determine if your play is solid enough to support an advantage.
it really doesn't matter when you call it a day excepting you should never pull out of a shoe that you know has a positive true count unless you just don't have enough money left to properly raise your bets, split and double down.
