There is no need to take a hammering shoe after shoe. Given the information given to you as you play out the shoe, with observation you can recognize strong and weak sections of the shoe and where they are. Counting is a passive aggressive approach to playing where as, yes you are playing a smart game, but only with the advantage given to you. A more aggressive approach comes in being a manipulater of the cards where you create the advantage. In some cases it works very nicely, when you can purposely track an advantage into your hands. Many times its not quite that good, but an awareness made of the last shoe's count, and particular sections of it, can feed you information into the next shoe. Even if a shuffle is untrackable per say where you cannot land an advantage for certain, you may still be able to understand the makeup of the shoe you are about to play. It comes down to, the more info that is readily given to you by the casino that you can process, the more ammo you have in either attacking or somtimes just protecting. Its a reason that I have never moved on to more advanced counts. Its been my experience that advancing my knowledge in card mechanics and shuffle characteristics has delivered me much higher rewards. Counting on any level is an approximation. I choose to try to dwindle the odds of error by trying to know beforehand what to expect, not approximate it as it comes.
