okay so i had my first counting experience today and had to write...
first off, it wasn't the first time i've counted.... the first time i tried i completely f*cked it up and had to rely on my friends bet size to determine the count. the second time i tried backcounting and was waiting on for a TC of 5 (yeah i know, lol) and surprise surprise i spent 3 hours and didn't play a single hand.
i was red chipping with a ramp of 5, 10, 25, $50.
so anyway several crazy things happened...
first off i initially tried wonging 15 min tables (the max of any table in the sino was 100), so i wonged 1 and made 15 bucks.
next i plop onto a 5 min table and start cracking away, i figure i can just sit there going through shoes with my spread (PLEASE correct me if i'm wrong because this will cost me), i leave a couple times for washroom breaks and going to check on friends at bad counts.
then i sit at the same table my counter buddy is sitting at.... theres this ploppy on the table who keeps getting pissed off when i stand on 16 vs 10 saying its a bad move (count was +) and i didn't take his bust card. anyway, at the start of the next shoe this dude says "can i see the burn card." so the dealer anounces it, and shows a Q. then, HERES THE INTERESTING PART, he says "negative 1." my buddy and i look at each other and we're thinking "fuck!" also the pit boss is RIGHT there, she actually hears him and says "what did you say" he then repeats it and follows up by saying that if anyone can count an 8 deck shoe they have more brain power than him. lol. the pit just laughs cause the dude was clearly terrible.
anyway, so we get hit pretty bad after a couple hours of being plopped on this table (mainly betting min). so my friend is down 100 (20 units), a quarter of his BR, so hes obviously a little pissed. so we go to the washroom and i'm like, enough of this bullshit, we're wonging the 10-15 tables. so we go there, we just ignore heat completely, just backcount, enter, backcount enter, so yeah, half an hour later, i make 170, he makes 300 (he finishes 200 up i finish 70 up for the day).
another couple things... our stay at the casino was a whopping 6 hours! cause another friend who drove played poker and he likes long sessions. so does anyone have any idea of how to kill time? and don't say gamble (ie video poker or some other low HA game)
also on the 5 table with my friend... at one point i was min betting and he was betting 15-25. this got me worried, doubting myself, and wondering what the hell was going on. later on i found out that my friend thought that if 5 decks were dealt (8 deck shoe) you had to divide by 1 (cause 2 decks were cut out and they don't count). so yeah, that obviously through his true count way off.
wow, this got pretty long, so if you reach the end, props to you.
first off, it wasn't the first time i've counted.... the first time i tried i completely f*cked it up and had to rely on my friends bet size to determine the count. the second time i tried backcounting and was waiting on for a TC of 5 (yeah i know, lol) and surprise surprise i spent 3 hours and didn't play a single hand.
i was red chipping with a ramp of 5, 10, 25, $50.
so anyway several crazy things happened...
first off i initially tried wonging 15 min tables (the max of any table in the sino was 100), so i wonged 1 and made 15 bucks.
next i plop onto a 5 min table and start cracking away, i figure i can just sit there going through shoes with my spread (PLEASE correct me if i'm wrong because this will cost me), i leave a couple times for washroom breaks and going to check on friends at bad counts.
then i sit at the same table my counter buddy is sitting at.... theres this ploppy on the table who keeps getting pissed off when i stand on 16 vs 10 saying its a bad move (count was +) and i didn't take his bust card. anyway, at the start of the next shoe this dude says "can i see the burn card." so the dealer anounces it, and shows a Q. then, HERES THE INTERESTING PART, he says "negative 1." my buddy and i look at each other and we're thinking "fuck!" also the pit boss is RIGHT there, she actually hears him and says "what did you say" he then repeats it and follows up by saying that if anyone can count an 8 deck shoe they have more brain power than him. lol. the pit just laughs cause the dude was clearly terrible.
anyway, so we get hit pretty bad after a couple hours of being plopped on this table (mainly betting min). so my friend is down 100 (20 units), a quarter of his BR, so hes obviously a little pissed. so we go to the washroom and i'm like, enough of this bullshit, we're wonging the 10-15 tables. so we go there, we just ignore heat completely, just backcount, enter, backcount enter, so yeah, half an hour later, i make 170, he makes 300 (he finishes 200 up i finish 70 up for the day).
another couple things... our stay at the casino was a whopping 6 hours! cause another friend who drove played poker and he likes long sessions. so does anyone have any idea of how to kill time? and don't say gamble (ie video poker or some other low HA game)
also on the 5 table with my friend... at one point i was min betting and he was betting 15-25. this got me worried, doubting myself, and wondering what the hell was going on. later on i found out that my friend thought that if 5 decks were dealt (8 deck shoe) you had to divide by 1 (cause 2 decks were cut out and they don't count). so yeah, that obviously through his true count way off.
wow, this got pretty long, so if you reach the end, props to you.