Shuffle Tracking for Dummies

Okay, I've read the cookbook, and i get it. I can't do it, but I get it.

This past week, I hit an unbelievable string of hugely negative shoes. Every first round or two was full of tens and aces. Needless to say, these shoes were all wasted time and money. It seemed half the deck was all high cards and the other was all low cards, and no matter who cut it or where the high cards came out first.

I really wished I had spent more time studying shuffle tracking to fix this situation. My question is: Is there an easy rule for cutting the deck??

Please all you shuffle trackers, tell me there is a simple rule like "Cut a negative shoe in the middle." or "Cut a positive shoe near the top."

I know it is not that simple because shuffles differ, but any insight would be appreciated.

You have to practise by tracking the cards and try to put them by cutting in the front so you find them again.

I use Shuffle Trak� by Dennis Suggs at Mesa Verde Software Systems. I enter a casino and walk around observing 10-12 shuffles and write down what I determine to be the "average" house shuffle. Then I spend around 20-25 minutes entering it in the program setting the uneven dealer pick feature based on my observations. Then I spend around a half hour watching the shuffle flow on my laptop based on the appearance of high or low cards and where they are located. Then I develop simplifications based on 1st deck out, large plus/minus count, 2nd deck out, large plus/minus count. etc. Watch for corresponding clumps and the results. This will give you a simplified "high plus count early, cut 2 decks from the back" and so forth. On 6 deck games, 1 deck cut off, I personally would put the high cards right before the cut card or the low cards at the front of the shoe as I like to bet the count. The best shuffle I ever found was at the Horseshoe in Shreveport, La. around 5 years ago. Positive, negative, whatever..after months of tinkering I was often able to cut 3-4 and even 6-8 shoes in a row where the count went up from the getgo and returned to zero just as the cut card came out. With traditional visual shuffle tracking I would put the high cards at the front of the shoe and bet into them in the accustomed method. And there's your simple method.

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