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What a weekend I had...went out to Vegas for my brother's 21st bday (im only a year older, so its all good...), and just had a phenomenal time. Played 12 hours of blackjack in 2 days, plus took full advantage of Sin City's nightlife....
The Hard Rock gave both my friend and I a tremendous memory. Hard Rock is an 8-decker, H17, DAS, etc., and we were playing $15 hands. I have never seen a shoe take off so fast - i hit a running count of +27 using hi-lo with 3.5-4 decks left. Seeing this occur, we spread out to 4 hands, 2 of them playing $50 and 2 of them playing $60. We really were playing $5 units, but wanted to play the $15 table, so the count warranted the spread. Suffice to say, we ended up with 6 hands on the table, thanks to a few splits, and doubled on a bunch of those hands. We had approx. $700 on the table, with 4 hands of 20 and 2 hands of 19, with the dealer showing a 6. Now of course, my friend was pretty twisted and I was sippin on alcohol, but I kept a perfect count....I was so excited inside that I stood up and started screaming as we were doubling...we drew a crowd...it was tremendous...and then...the dealer pulled the card we REALLY needed, a f*ckin 5. You know what came next, a beautiful face card, removing all the chips from our sight into Hard Rock's chip collection...
What a nice hit that was - a moment of pure shock. Suddenly, I felt so stupid, but after winning about half of it back by the end of the shoe, I know I played that right. It just shows that as much as you think you can really beat the game, it can smack you back...and you have to be in it for the long run.
And all those CSM's, man, I gave those dealers such a look...i made it known that I wouldn't play at tables with those shufflers...
Best luck to everyone in the advantage play community - and may the cards fall well!
The Hard Rock gave both my friend and I a tremendous memory. Hard Rock is an 8-decker, H17, DAS, etc., and we were playing $15 hands. I have never seen a shoe take off so fast - i hit a running count of +27 using hi-lo with 3.5-4 decks left. Seeing this occur, we spread out to 4 hands, 2 of them playing $50 and 2 of them playing $60. We really were playing $5 units, but wanted to play the $15 table, so the count warranted the spread. Suffice to say, we ended up with 6 hands on the table, thanks to a few splits, and doubled on a bunch of those hands. We had approx. $700 on the table, with 4 hands of 20 and 2 hands of 19, with the dealer showing a 6. Now of course, my friend was pretty twisted and I was sippin on alcohol, but I kept a perfect count....I was so excited inside that I stood up and started screaming as we were doubling...we drew a crowd...it was tremendous...and then...the dealer pulled the card we REALLY needed, a f*ckin 5. You know what came next, a beautiful face card, removing all the chips from our sight into Hard Rock's chip collection...
What a nice hit that was - a moment of pure shock. Suddenly, I felt so stupid, but after winning about half of it back by the end of the shoe, I know I played that right. It just shows that as much as you think you can really beat the game, it can smack you back...and you have to be in it for the long run.
And all those CSM's, man, I gave those dealers such a look...i made it known that I wouldn't play at tables with those shufflers...
Best luck to everyone in the advantage play community - and may the cards fall well!
