DoctorJames
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I have spent the last month or so reading and re-reading the Wong trilogy (Basic Bj, Pro Bj, and Bj Secrets =P )I ran into a paragraph in one book that was repeated in another that said Royal Match bet in a Six Deck game with 2 to 1 Suited and 3 to 1 Royal was a good bet. My local Card Room (15 house edge tables allowed) has royal match on 2 or 3 Bj tables. I always stayed away from it until now. I cashed in with 40 to play 20 on 2 dollar flat bet BS and 20 for Royal Match as an experiment. Played for 4 hours, ended up loosing 26 dollars total. I calculated that over the course of my session I won 80 dollars playing the royal match bet. The 16 dollars I walked out with was all 50 cent pieces from Royal Match. Here is the kicker. suited pays 2.5 to 1, suited natural pay 5 to 1 and Royal Match pays 25 to 1, So it seems to have better payouts than the bet described by Mr. Wong. I was wondering if anyone knows or has the means to calculate the Advantage of this bet with the payouts I mentioned ? If I remember Wongs numbers correctly these payouts would make it very player friendly.
I got my first bit of heat too. Last week I was playing at 4 in the morning, the shuffle machine was not operating so they were hand shuffling... so I couldnt play as many rounds as I would have liked. But anyway, I was spreading 1 to 4, I sat out at grossly negative counts. Anyway the dealer points to my hand which is A,6 and his up card is a 6. I act like I am thinking about what to do. I double my bet and signal for one card, He pulls it out of the shoe sees it is a 4 and holds it up and calls the pit ! Tells the boss He exposed the card to me prior to my decision, and she tells him to burn it and to give me a new card. It was a shit card, and the dealer beat my total by one. Rest of the morning, all three bosses did nothing but watch me. So I did a 1:2 spread and smiled alot. =) Ended up being down 40 dollars for the night, the same total that I lost on that burned card hand.
I have a bit of a problem keeping the RC, I try to be involved at the table, social and fun to be around and it gets hard to remember the number, anyone have a trick they use to remember ? I figure that my "heat" was because the pit actually believed I spotted the card and not because I am an aspiring counter, but it was fun. (and frustrating)
I got my first bit of heat too. Last week I was playing at 4 in the morning, the shuffle machine was not operating so they were hand shuffling... so I couldnt play as many rounds as I would have liked. But anyway, I was spreading 1 to 4, I sat out at grossly negative counts. Anyway the dealer points to my hand which is A,6 and his up card is a 6. I act like I am thinking about what to do. I double my bet and signal for one card, He pulls it out of the shoe sees it is a 4 and holds it up and calls the pit ! Tells the boss He exposed the card to me prior to my decision, and she tells him to burn it and to give me a new card. It was a shit card, and the dealer beat my total by one. Rest of the morning, all three bosses did nothing but watch me. So I did a 1:2 spread and smiled alot. =) Ended up being down 40 dollars for the night, the same total that I lost on that burned card hand.
I have a bit of a problem keeping the RC, I try to be involved at the table, social and fun to be around and it gets hard to remember the number, anyone have a trick they use to remember ? I figure that my "heat" was because the pit actually believed I spotted the card and not because I am an aspiring counter, but it was fun. (and frustrating)