So I'm shuffle tracking a local casino's six-decker. I know that I've just cut two aces to the top of the shoe, but I don't know precisely where. All I know is that there are definitely two red aces somewhere within the first 52-card segment of the shoe. Does this give me any advantage at all, or is it just as likely that I have cut an extra two aces out of that top segment? Is there any way to use this vague knowledge to my advantage? Should I just keep counting normally and continue to cut aces to the top as a safety measure?

I get the feeling that I am not getting any advantage out of this method or, even worse, I am shooting myself in the foot by using an inferior (or probably useless) tracking method. It seems like steering four aces blindly to the top 52-card segment would guarantee me an average ace density, but even that would not give me much of an advantage since I would expect that to be the case already. Could I safely raise my bet off the top if I knew that the aces were there instead of waiting to recognize a shortage as a card counter normally does?

Wow, I guess I had a lot more questions that I though!

-Sonny-