Biggest bet

What's the most amount of money you have had on the table at once?

At Foxwoods Skygazer room. I lost 20k in a few hours.

I've had 800 bucks on the table once, playing a $100 min DD game, 3 splits, doubled on every hand. All against a dealer up. Got a few ugly cards (nothing like an A on a total of 11) but the dealer obligingly broke and allowed my wife to release her death-grip on my arm returning circulation/feeling to same. :)

I was running a progression in a DD game (I know, progressions are winners). I was $7500 down and moved to a table to play head on. I started with $100 and it went something like this, 100-150-200-300-500-700-1000-1500(had a bj on this one)-2000. I won 9 in a row for $7200.

The last bet for $2000 I had a 16 v A. I scratched for a hit and got a 3 to beat the dealer. What luck. I was so absorbed with the streak that I forgot that the rules allowed for late surrender and I forgot to take it. :)

Funny thing about streaks. I've had some of my longest streaks in negative counts. Just statistical aberrations. I know it's not a winning game but I enjoy them and it gives me the chance to get big bets out. DD is the only game that I'll use them.

I might caution that I've been backed off playing a progression because the pit thought I was jumping my bet. Imagine that. Chasing away a "gambler" because they didn't understand their own game.

JB

That should be "progressions aren't winners."

Some of the purists will have a bird if I thought otherwise :-)

JB