difficult indeed.The etis is on you ,the pit is on to you and the dealer is on to you at some /many stores.
You need to read more and understand more. You hit sure profits in the long run, meaning thousands and tens of thousands of rounds. Discarding or changing systems because you have bad results over "several rounds" is completely bonkers. You'll need a hell of a lot more discipline and a hell of a lot more time at the tables using the same system and making no mistakes before you even begin to get an idea of where you stand. This isn't a lottery where you win big within a few rounds or quit. It's a long, arduous grind over hundreds of hours playing a tiny edge to even be assured of a reasonable expectation of a profit.
Life is one long totally random session. How you choose to break it up is non-random. If you always played exactly 5 shoes your session results would be much more random but we are human and tend to quit when ahead or by some other criteria which shapes our session results.
Last edited by metronome; 12-23-2014 at 05:18 PM. Reason: spelling dammit
“One man’s remorse is another man’s reminiscence.” Ogden Nash
Welcome to the wonderful world of BJ. Your results are just normal fluctuations of the game. Don't waste your time and brain power by worrying about streaks in results of individual games or sessions, meaningless information. It is all one long game. If you worry about losing too many sessions in a row you may pay more attention to having a wining session and as a result, over bet you bankroll to get even, increase your ramp above what is optimal to get even. There is no harm in booking a loss at a casino. They like losers, it is OK to be one occasionally.
The books that advise not raising your bet unless you win and not lowering it unless you lose are old and written when BJ had a much lower house edge. You had a lot of EV that could be sacrificed for longevity and still have a profitable game. Today you must be much more selective about sacrificing EV for longevity. There just isn't near as much EV to work with.
I've had similar losing streaks happen to me and it makes me reflect superstitiously on anything wrong I may have done to deserve such bad karma, but my rational side ends up prevailing and I realize that given enough time, you're going to end up getting a horrible streak no matter what.
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