Advice on the "Flow Pattern" of A Shoe???

I am still a relative newbie although I can quickly keep a HiLo count.

Question for those of you who have seen many more shoes than I have.....is there a certain signature that you are looking for? What I mean is, a few nights ago I was playing a shoe which seemed to be relatively clumped. There were several areas where 90% of the cards in a 15 card run were 2-6s. Anyway, the count seemed to rise and fall pretty precipitously, so there were usually a few opportunities in a shoe to get some big bets out. That night (perhaps coincidentally) I turned $100 into $700 at a $10 table in a few hours.

The next day, I was playing at a table where the shoe seemed much more "even". The RUNNING count never seemed to get above or below +5 to -5. It seemed like I was just treading water. I ended up losing $50 of $100 over 2 hours.

Question: Is that something you experts look for, or do you find that shuffles can change that up enough that if the last 3 shoes were flat, you have hope that the next shoe will not be flat? Or, if I find a "flat shoe" after 4 or 5 rounds should I switch tables?

I am not backcounting, but am sitting out hands or going to the bathroom when the TC goes below -2. I am spreading 1 to 10.

I am fully aware that a 6 or 8 decker starts in a piss poor condition.
If card flow is nornal that will not change. If one too many faces come out on each hand, the condition gets progressively WORSE. So one
chance in three that the shoewill move toward rich. In a six deck, that is 24 cards away. It is possible that a shoe will get hot and stay that way. As you may already know the count may be terrible and
you win every hand- "that's skill not DUMB LUCK."

don't mean that there isn't clumps of big or small cards. Take a single deck and shuffle it 1000 times (extreme) and you will still find clumps of big and small cards...even though the deck is random.

Aside from that, nothing has been proven to show that evenly mixed shoes tend to stay evenly mixed through shuffles or that clumps can't be dispursed by shuffles. Players can take advantage of pockets of big or small cards by cutting them into/out of play...that is what shuffle tracking is all about. So in this regard, a shoe that has a constant mix of high and low cards does not lend itself to being taken advantage of by players with ST skills.

The entry for "Target" will direct you to some prime reading material about shuffling biases, that you can find on the web or in print.

Shoes with a "constant mix" of high or low cards are a shuffle tracker's dream. You want to take the low cards out of play with the cut.

use of "constant mix" by which I used to refer to an even mix...if cards are evenly mixed there are no clumps for a ST player to cut into or out of play.