Your answer makes no sense at all. Do you have continuous shuffle machines where you are? If not, OF COURSE you can count a six-deck shoe. You need to explain your comment.
Don
Your answer makes no sense at all. Do you have continuous shuffle machines where you are? If not, OF COURSE you can count a six-deck shoe. You need to explain your comment.
Don
It's hand-shuffled (poorly) in the high limit room (Maryland Live casino, $100 minimum tables) and I've found count doesn't matter as much as tracking clumps of low and high cards in their frequently-changed decks. Time and time again you get runs of all low cards to everybody, then all 10's and aces. I've made 30K in the last year off them betting $100 then up to $400 after a low card run.
Your answer makes no sense at all. Do you have continuous shuffle machines where you are? If not, OF COURSE you can count a six-deck shoe. You need to explain your comment.
Don
It's hand-shuffled (poorly) in the high limit room (Maryland Live casino, $100 minimum tables) and I've found count doesn't matter as much as tracking clumps of low and high cards in their frequently-changed decks. Time and time again you get runs of all low cards to everybody, then all 10's and aces. I've made 30K in the last year off them betting $100 then up to $400 after a low card run.
You're entitled to your opinion, and I'm happy you've made money, but I'm not buying the story. The games in the high limit rooms are the most scrutinized and protected, and I find it hard to be believe that the cards wouldn't be adequately and properly shuffled.
Don
Your answer makes no sense at all. Do you have continuous shuffle machines where you are? If not, OF COURSE you can count a six-deck shoe. You need to explain your comment.
Don
It's hand-shuffled (poorly) in the high limit room (Maryland Live casino, $100 minimum tables) and I've found count doesn't matter as much as tracking clumps of low and high cards in their frequently-changed decks. Time and time again you get runs of all low cards to everybody, then all 10's and aces. I've made 30K in the last year off them betting $100 then up to $400 after a low card run.
You're entitled to your opinion, and I'm happy you've made money, but I'm not buying the story. The games in the high limit rooms are the most scrutinized and protected, and I find it hard to be believe that the cards wouldn't be adequately and properly shuffled.
Don
Maybe I've found a gem? They do shuffle poorly, probably because they have very little blackjack action in the high limit room, even on weekends. Baltimore city itself is a poor area and a lot of this casino's patrons are residents from there (and by the way, I'm not the girl in my picture, I'm a middle-aged man with 25 years of lurking this great site. I like to stay anonymous). But even on weekends, only about three BJ tables in the high limit room (out of eight) will have anybody playing. Their main action is the baccarat table where Chinese/asians are betting $15K or $20K a hand, times eight or ten at the table. The casino could care less about $100-$400 (or even $100-$1000) players on the BJ tables and that's why there's zero heat here.
And yes they shuffle poorly. Come out here and watch! They're trying to do it quickly to attract more people. I'm cleaning up, anyway.
Your answer makes no sense at all. Do you have continuous shuffle machines where you are? If not, OF COURSE you can count a six-deck shoe. You need to explain your comment.
Don
It's hand-shuffled (poorly) in the high limit room (Maryland Live casino, $100 minimum tables) and I've found count doesn't matter as much as tracking clumps of low and high cards in their frequently-changed decks. Time and time again you get runs of all low cards to everybody, then all 10's and aces. I've made 30K in the last year off them betting $100 then up to $400 after a low card run.
You're entitled to your opinion, and I'm happy you've made money, but I'm not buying the story. The games in the high limit rooms are the most scrutinized and protected, and I find it hard to be believe that the cards wouldn't be adequately and properly shuffled.
Don
Maybe I've found a gem? They do shuffle poorly, probably because they have very little blackjack action in the high limit room, even on weekends. Baltimore city itself is a poor area and a lot of this casino's patrons are residents from there (and by the way, I'm not the girl in my picture, I'm a middle-aged man with 25 years of lurking this great site. I like to stay anonymous). But even on weekends, only about three BJ tables in the high limit room (out of eight) will have anybody playing. Their main action is the baccarat table where Chinese/asians are betting $15K or $20K a hand, times eight or ten at the table. The casino could care less about $100-$400 (or even $100-$1000) players on the BJ tables and that's why there's zero heat here.
And yes they shuffle poorly. Come out here and watch! They're trying to do it quickly to attract more people. I'm cleaning up, anyway.
I think after they read this thread the shuffles will become much better. Way to much infor offered here.
I think after they read this thread the shuffles will become much better. Way to much infor offered here.
I'm pretty sure they know exactly what they're doing, and faced with empty BJ tables, they are intentionally doing a poor shuffle to attract the 0.5% of the gambling population that understands shuffle tracking, because the shuffle trackers will stay at the table and attract the rest. As long as you're not winning "too much," they make more from the drunk, high rolling idiots that swarm in when they see people at the tables. This thread won't change a thing.
And as of tonight, it still hasn't -- they're still shuffling the same.
Yes it is profitable, but hard to find consistently and can lead you into things you don't belong in.
Be aware that there is a racket where a dealer makes a lot of mistakes, in both directions. But overpays go to a person he or she is working with, and underpays go to you and everyone else. To the eye, it just looks like an error-prone dealer with no loss to the house and no crime committed, but it is the second of those things and you are the victim. I once unwisely hinted to a dealer in a game I wanted to continue playing that I realized what was going on and she had better find someone else to target with it, and was escorted out shortly after, and being I had just crossed felons something worse could have happened after I was escorted out. Now I leave a game where I suspect that.
If you are interested in blurring lines yourself, you can do things to increase dealer errors. Lots of hand jive, prestidigitation, deceiving hand signals that can cause a dealer to flash a card, quick grabs, lies, anything that does not involve you touching cards or changing the amounts of bets. One easy one is throwing in an extra hand at the last second, letting the dealer deal past it, then deciding whether you want to play your hand after you see the cards, which is the policy in most casinos and the other players will back you up. You can pull off one of those per session. You also have to know the EV of all the hands.
If you're a lady who is willing to be disgraceful you can play the flirtation game, where you talk whales into making bets, doubling bets, splitting hands for you under terms that heavily favor you. I've run into a few of those and it's tempting to play along and see just who is better at their game, but that's also a way to find trouble so I give them no attention at all. If any of this gives you concern about the condition of your soul, just stop at the window marked "Redemption" on the way out.
