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my edge is almost .9%(basic strategy gives me me that percent that includes great bonus system)
I play most of the time 7 hand
I have played so far 4000(10 hours) games in casino
Bet is 20$.And i have lost so far in total 3000$.

Is it normal?Or smth smells bad?

How do you have a 0.9% advantage? More specifically, how did you calculate it?

Listen, you obviously won't stop posting after getting advice several times from other patient posters... PLEASE, read up on the subject. There are many points aside from grammar that make your post wrong.

1) If you have been 10 hours in a casino, you can't have played 4000 games. You can't even have played 4000 hands of blackjack, which is what I suspect you meant.

2) Most casinos won't allow you to play 7 hands at once. If they do you will have to bet at least 7 times the minimum, which will be just weird, because you say your bet is 20$. Or what did you mean you play 7 hand? Do you mean you play at 3rd base?

3) Where do you get you .9% edge? Can you please elaborate on the rules? That really seems quite high. Even if you have early surrender you never get a .9% edge. The fact that you betting unit is in $ seems to indicate that it is an US casino. Which one? Is it an Internet casino? As BJ_Player2004 says: Please explain your advantage!

4) You have played 10 hours and lost 150 units. Quite a bad run of cards. If you get 100 hands per hour that of 1000 units bet you have lost 150. Quite bad, but since your post does not indicate any counting I'd say you just caught a bad run of cards. Ahem, I'll just refrain myself from any other mean comments...

I don't mean to be picky, but being a foreigner myself, I would appreciate some better grammar skills and some netiquette. You cannot just barge in like that and ask a bunch of questions, post some false systems and never ONCE answer correspondingly to all the patient posts that people have been writing to you. Until you finally explain yourself better or learn something you will not get much advice in this forum.

I play some European casino.
Natural basic strategy with early surrender gives me -.3 edge
every shoe there are joker that gives me 20$
every BJ gives me 3$
even BJ give me roulette bet which is equal appr 1/37*1000$=27$

joker adds .7%
BJ adds .25%
Roulette bet .25
Total should be .9%

Of course i must play always flat bet,with minimum bet which is 20$.
Therefore i play 7 hands,60% penetr,quick dealer shuffling
>According to that i play 300-400 BJ games in one hour.One shoe takes me less that 10minutes to finish it.

Can't you invest $12 on a decent BJ book like Professional Blackjack?

Privador, are you listening? WELL WORTH THE MONEY. PLEASE BUY A BOOK!!!

do u claim that my EV is negative?
Any proof not laughing at me...

We can't tell if your calculation is correct without a lot more information. For instance, how is the joker worth $20? Does the dealer just give you $20 every time you're dealt a joker? How many jokers are there? How does every BJ give you $3? Did they just change the payout to $33 instead of $30? An extra $3 per BJ should be worth about 1/21 x $3/$20 = 0.7%

BTW, if you're only getting $23 for BJ on a $20 bet, then you need to SUBTRACT 1.7% from your edge. Normal basic edge is based on the normal 3:2 payoff for a natural.

It's certainly possible you just had a bad run of cards. Can't tell just how bad it was without MORE DETAILS.

ETF

I don't know if your EV is bad or not. As ET Fan said, we don't have enough data to evaluate it. I do know that your knowledge of the game is suspect. I'm not trying to be mean. It's just that your posts reveal not only a complete lack of knowledge, they also reveal a lack of any real attempt to learn about the game, aside from your posts here. I hope you'll research the game more thoroughly before you lose a lot of money hoping to win via magic and hope.

I was about to post that you should cut privador a little slack on the grammar, untill you revealed that you are a non-native speaker yourself.

I would have never guessed based on the quality of your posts.

Very impressive.

Having tried to learn another language (Japanese), myself, I have immense respect for anyone that can become fluent in a second language.

I found the task virtually insurmountable.

No BJ info here, just wanted to pass on some props. Although I will mention to those I18/F4 players who balk at learning all the indices:

You are being lazy.

Try learning (a minimum) of 3000-5000 words and speaking them spontaneously and grammatically with common idioms, expressions, colloquialisms, etc ...

Best,
Syph

It's just that your posts reveal not only a complete lack of knowledge, they also reveal a lack of any real attempt to learn about the game, aside from your posts here.

Maybe you're basing this on other posts he has written. I don't pay that much attention. But hey, maybe the fact that he comes here first for good information should be taken as a compliment!

ETF

I can�t speak for BJ Player2004, but I formed the same conclusion some time ago. I stopped reading privador�s posts a some time ago. He would ask some really dumb questions, like whether you should surrender 6 vs. 9 or something (I don�t remember the specific case, but you can look it up). People encouraged him to pick up a book and read a little, and he seems to have ignored that advice.

MathProf,

Yes, you are 100% correct. We've all patiently answered Privador's odd questions. I wish his enthusiasm here were matched with an enthusiasm outside our board to do a little research. You can sense the frustration in Bigplayer's and others' responses. That said, I'm being completely sincere in my answer. Privador asked for advice and my advice is that he start by picking up a reputable BJ book and read it, and I mean that in the nicest possible way.

I appreciate your sticking up for me. Thanks. I'd hate to be perceived negatively by my fellow APers.