Worst Blackjack session ever...

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Nightshifter

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I recently went to the Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood Florida to try their new hand shuffled $10 min 8 Deck games that are in the new part of the casino area. I don't know what the odds are but I lost 107 hands in a row which equates to a little over 5000 dollars. I was getting what I call NWO hands -- no way out. I don't care how you played the hand, you couldn't win. 107 hands in a row with no pushes. This was the combined total of playing at 3 tables. I left a table when the count got real negative, and started at another table. Dealer just kept on getting 20's, 7,7,7 (unbelievable), 10,3,8s to beat my 20's. This is frightening because what if I was betting at the black chip level like I normally do? I never experienced such bad variance in my years of playing or as a dealer. I use HOPTII w/ Side Track Aces and alter my playing strategy depending on the TC and correlative ACE count per half deck and a betting spread of 1-15 (10-150). Has anyone else here experienced a session this bad or even worse? The worst I've seen a player lose in a row without any pushes was 51 times at Baccarat.
 
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Nightshifter

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No Don I"m not full of shit. I lost 107 consecutive hands in a row at the Hard Rock in Hollywood yesterday. I played at 3 tables and lost 31 hands at the first one then walked, 38 hands at the second on, and the final blow at the third one. The cards came out as predicted but the dealers kept getting the stronger hand our out drawing what I had... it's not impossible but mathematically extremely rare. I received an incredible amount of stiffs and broke on each and every one. I'd get a two card 19, dealer had 20. I had 20, dealer hits to 21. A lot of back door blackjacks and I never had one during all these sessions. Spread 2 hands on a TC +2 or greater, dealer took both... I'm counting playing 2 hands as 2 losses by the way....
Dealers just kept getting the stronger cards, out drawing what I had or I was just busting on all my stiffs and not making any double downs at all! Always getting a low card on my doubles, esp. 2 or 3... one hand I split 3's against a dealers 2, wound up with another 3, there was a double on the 3 I received a 7 on... dealer has 7 under and wipes me out hitting with a 10 of Diamonds! The odds might of been one out of a trillion of this happening... but it happened nonetheless! Couldn't even sleep last night :( Hard one to swallow! the HOPII is a powerful counting system, but the Revere APC 1973 Revision is even more powerful but much more difficult to employ.
 
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DSchles

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I'll let you have the last word. I won't respond again. The odds aren't nearly as small as a trillion to one; they're more like several powers of that. You don't flip a fair coin and get heads 107 times in a row. It isn't worth discussing. And that's 50%. Losing a blackjack hand is more like 48%. So, no matter what you say, it didn't happen.

As for no pushes, that's easier to express. 107 hands with no pushes is more than 24,000 to one against. So, that didn't happen either.

Don
 
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bjo32

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To show you how impossible winning 109 hands in a row is, Michael Shackleford has calculated the odds of winning 40 hands in a row, the amount a “source” said Don Johnson won during his big $5.8 million at the Tropicana in 2011. The odds are 1 in 47,217,280,736,397,700.

You can find this article in the New York Post called “The taking of Atlantic City”.

Moral of the story: Get on an incredible winning streak and you too can “take” Atlantic City...and get elected into a Hall of Fame to boot.
 
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Nightshifter

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I wish I was trolling BJ Lover and I hope BJ stands for Blackjack :) Like I had mentioned, I'd seen a baccarat player lose 51 consecutive times (switching between banker and player) in row! He just couldn't get it right for that duration of time! My number reflects the outcome of playing at 3 tables, one or two hands depending on the count. Yes I know the odds are like a Vigintillion to one, that this can happen, but nevertheless it happened! One could argue that it was 3 session combined total? Well if you think using the same PBR at three different tables are 3 sessions, then that's a book I've yet to read... but I'm telling you that lightning struck the same place several times that day. Losing is nothing to brag about, just wanted to share what seemed to me as an extraordinary losing experience implementing a powerful card counting system. I just kept getting NWO hands. Sure I'd get a 10,9 in a high TC, but the dealer caught the pair of tens! What could I do? Highly impossible but not entirely improbable. I really wish that I could had taken a hidden camera in there with me, but the odds of getting caught and probable arrest by their own police is far greater :) Sh*t happens and I was in the bowl being flushed down several times that day.... I'll go back to Coconut Creek 6 Deck Hand Shuffled and see what happens... maybe this Gamblers Ruin with reverse itself :D
 
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KewlJ

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Nightshifter said:
I wish I was trolling BJ Lover and I hope BJ stands for Blackjack :)
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As opposed to what...blow jobs? Cause I for one love getting both. ;)
 
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Nightshifter

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KewlJ said:
As opposed to what...blow jobs? Cause I for one love getting both. ;)
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Well definitely not Beef Jerky! Ditto! :D Eh by the way KewlJ, take like 32 tens put them on top of the shoe, Aces thru 4 in the middle somewhere and 7,8,9 at the back... then do an offset hand shuffle and see how the cards fall ;)
 
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