Mikeaber
Well-Known Member
I've been having a horrible run of Blackjack sessions here lately. Seems like forever since I've come out on the positive side. In fact, it's been so bad that I decided to take a "vacation" from BJ and spend a weekend playing VP. However, when I got to the casino, I found that the dog-gone paytables sucked at the casino (AmeriStar) so I degraded my play to nickel VP. After something on the order of 13 hours of VP over two days, I was down $100. That's a LOT when you are betting only $.25 a hand! Quads just weren't falling and forget Royals!
It was only an hour before time to leave to drive home. I was already ready to hit the road, but my Wife was still playing so I found a seat at a cheap $3 BJ table with the intention of just flat betting the minimum to kill the hour. But I guess I'm corrupted. I find that it's just automatic to keep up with the cards as they are dealt. The first two shoes were pretty much neutral and I never got away from the table minimum, but the third shoe wasn't "normal!"
After the first hand at the 6-d table (DAS, H17, RSA, deep 80% pen), the count was -15 (using KO). After the second hand, it continued to climb to -9. I doubled the table minimum and bet two spots. Unbelievable! I got faces and yet, mostly small numbers were falling to the rest of the table (two other players.) It went on that way pretty much the entire shoe. Most of the time, I was betting $18 (6 units) on two spots when normally my max bet is 10 units. I ended up 40 units ahead on that one shoe! That made the 3-hour drive back home a little better!
Note that at AmeriStar on the $3 tables, two spots is 2x table minimum and 3 spots is 5x the $3 minimum. I probably should have spread to three spots at $15 on this table during that shoe, but I didn't think about it until later!
It was only an hour before time to leave to drive home. I was already ready to hit the road, but my Wife was still playing so I found a seat at a cheap $3 BJ table with the intention of just flat betting the minimum to kill the hour. But I guess I'm corrupted. I find that it's just automatic to keep up with the cards as they are dealt. The first two shoes were pretty much neutral and I never got away from the table minimum, but the third shoe wasn't "normal!"
After the first hand at the 6-d table (DAS, H17, RSA, deep 80% pen), the count was -15 (using KO). After the second hand, it continued to climb to -9. I doubled the table minimum and bet two spots. Unbelievable! I got faces and yet, mostly small numbers were falling to the rest of the table (two other players.) It went on that way pretty much the entire shoe. Most of the time, I was betting $18 (6 units) on two spots when normally my max bet is 10 units. I ended up 40 units ahead on that one shoe! That made the 3-hour drive back home a little better!
Note that at AmeriStar on the $3 tables, two spots is 2x table minimum and 3 spots is 5x the $3 minimum. I probably should have spread to three spots at $15 on this table during that shoe, but I didn't think about it until later!
