Originally Posted by
mickeymouse
I started card counting this year, and for the first 20 sessions, I did remarkably well. My theoretical win rate was about $40-50 an hour and I was well above this average. At my maximum, I was $7700 ahead for the year.
Since then, I have lost about 65% of my sessions, and have lost almost half my profit.
Today I had by far the worst session of my career. The dealer got an ace or a ten hole card for the entire first two-thirds of the first shoe. And things didn't get better from there. It was as if she just magically was able to get one more than me every single hand. And I busted on every stiff hand, well 75% anyway, that I was dealt. Meanwhile the table of idiots manages to grind out a win courtesy of the dealer busting - after I get to be the only one who busts, each and every time.
Since Feb 15 it's just been a familiar story. The roller coaster dives way down, moves up a little, plateaus for a while and then plummets again.
I no longer have the desire to continue this hobby and I just feel I have wasted my time.
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