I know it for long time, I practiced for as long as I remember and it serves me well even today after so many years but I didn�t know how to explain until I�ve read Mason Malmutht book.
Self-weighting gambling strategies are those in which many plays are made for approximately same size of bets (or a small bet spread), while successful non self-weighting strategies attempt to identify where the gambler has the best of it and then to make the most of it (like betting the table limit while on a wining streak and the count is positive) This type of betting would never be possible with the classic card counting betting strategy.
I have said in another thread how to manage a bankroll of 25K and build it into 50K and only then start to protect it. Remember?
Now, A player who bets boldly even at a bad game has a better chance of coming out ahead with very large profits than one who bets optimally for the long run and appropriately even at a good game (i.e. betting using TC * unit in card counting in a great game). In other words, bold play is more important than knowing what bets are good or bad. Of course, a bold player will not play as long, and may not have as much "fun." But one should concentrate on winning, not entertainment and math mastery of the game.
I would argue that blackjack can be played in a very non-self-weighting mode. This means that it is highly possible and probable (and we all know this from our experience) for the dealer to have long periods of time where she breaks more than expected and long periods of time where she always seems to draw out on the players. And these periods happen completely at random. But if the player is capable to capitalize and the long streaks when the dealer is breaking by betting all the way to the table limit, then it is absolutely possible to extract large sums of money from this game while the house edge will not be able to overcome you because of the non-self-weighting effect of those very large bets. Further more, you also will make sure that your playing strategy will totally eliminate the house edge and even give you a little edge. Only a few index numbers will do the trick.
Puiu
PS: It will come a time when, if they didn�t get you in the very beginning then will not get you at all
