6 decks, pack broke in two, and then just straight shuffled
once. Any help apreciated, I have no idea how this is done.
Blackbelt in Blackjack has the best intro to shuffle tracking, IMHO. It sounds like you have a classic one-pass R&R shuffle. Could be fun!
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...get Malmuth's BJEssays first. G
6 decks broken into two parts and then shuffled together??? Was King Kong your dealer?
of specific shuffles on these pages.
The CO games aren't often a focus here, though, because of the unfortunate limit situation. You can only bet $5.
Tellis should look at both books & then practice a lot.
The above suggestions (get BB in BJ, Malmuth's book, and practice a lot) are great ones. I can't add much to what was already said in that area.
However, as to the shuffle you asked about, you omitted several important factors for accurately mapping a shuffle. This, along with the terminology you used tells me that you are very new to tracking. There's certainly no fault in that, but it sort of explains your expecting to have a detailed answer to this in an open forum.
Try to understand that no tracker worth his salt is going to tell you exactly how to track this shuffle (or any other) on pages like this that are known to be visited by casino personel. I'm sure you are legitimately looking for answers, but put yourself in others' shoes: Once a map or segment sequence was posted here it would be totally worthless, not only in that casino but any other that might be using the same shuffle routine. That could possibly really set back some trackers who have worked hard to map and memorize it for their use.
Finally, I truly believe that just handing someone a map is risking doing them more harm than good. They need to at least have a handle on the "mechanics" of tracking. If not, they will end up getting creamed when a dealer does a variation of the official house shuffle (it happens all the time) and thus re-arranges the slug order.
Get the books recommended, (especially BB in BJ) and start out slowly. It will take time for you to get good enough at this to actually be able to use it in real casino play, (just like it did in regular counting, remember?)
Get casino-weight cards and a discard tray and follow the Bishop's recommendations for practice exercises. That will get you at least started. Then try to think up other exersises where you can start consistantly predicting the marriages of rich segment. There are a number of them.
Then, before you risk a single dime of you hard earned money at tracking, go to the casino you have mapped out, and sit and do your normal regular counting thing.While the dealer is shuffling, calculate where you think the rich slug (if there IS one) will be in the upcoming shoe. Size your bets as per the REGULAR TRUE COUNT.
When that pre-determined segment comes up, the R/C should drop significantly. (When you get where you can consistenly do this, then you can begin to size bets accordingly.) However, if that R/C DOESN'T dive, then it means you have a little more homework to do, and shouldn't risk your money on your tracking abilities yet.
Keep your risk at a minimum until you have a handle on tracking a shuffle. Sometimes, I walk into a new place, memorized the shuffle movements, gone out and mapped it on paper, and then came back and "back tracked" a shoe or two to make sure the slugs were coming out where I thought they would before I sit down and risk my money. I'd rather find out if I was off that way than by getting creamed.
Take care,
@^)
Cyclops
