Unified gaming sites
In a thread posted on the Net betting page about 6 months ago i posted a hand history which included about 660 hands of bj where, flat betting $10 per hand with a few bet deviations,(yeah, I steam a bit too) in a .7% advantage game(SD, Early surrender!) playing perfect basic strategy with only about 4 errors which added up to like $3, i lost $990. That's about a 17% loss in a positive expectation game with surrender, which smoothes out the fluctuations. Some of the math guys on this site figured that would happen about 1 in 1300 times or so. Shortly thereafter someone posted an email from Unified Gaming ostensibly explaining their game to a prospective customer. In the email, a " built-in hold percentage" was discussed. Now you and I both know that a .7% advantage flat betting at $100 a hand at 500 hands an hour means $350 per hour, with what I'd imagine to be extremely involatile fluctuations compared to regular BJ. Just off the top of my head, I'd figure a $10,000 BR would give you a better than 5% risk of ruin,(maybe better?). I don't know if this game is still being offered, but if it were on the up-and-up, it would have lasted about 6 hours once heavy hitters like you found it. As far as internet sportsbooks and casinos, I've never been stiffed either, and am very impressed with their payouts as a whole,(thank you Baltimore Ravens!). I have flat-betted $100 a hand online B4, which I'd doubt most who play online can say, save for you, of course. Obviously, you and I both know counting works, and there are programs out there that will help you beat even a 50% pen 6D game by using as perfect count strategy as current technology allows. I'm not saying they're all crooks, but I am saying that their SD game is not on the level. Comparatively, I played 2 to 4 hands at a time at BJ Blitz at the Rio in august putting about $20-25,000 through over the course of around 10 hours of play and won about $200, about a 1% gain, which is a tiny bit high,(.1% about right with ins. and perfect play), but right within expectation. I'm postive you know/knew about these early surrender games, and if you did, you could've flat bet that full time,(which i considered). Last I'd heard on it, UG pulled ES, but only after at least 3 months of the game being available, which would not happen if the game were on the square.