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    One Shoe?

    Straight Counting.
    What's the most you have ever won in one shoe? 6 or 8 deck.
    Did you sense it was coming?
    Individually not team play.
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    Right around $185 on a $5 table, still a rookie here. Shoe came out of the gates great, switched to two hands @ $15, lost count mid shoe, backed it down to two hands @ $5, but from what I gut checked the count to after I lost it, the shoe stayed positive almost the entire way.

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    i started with 50. won practically every hand count went to the sky. Dealer busted with small cards! At the end of show i had 4k and i leaved because i created some heat duirng only one show
    I dont now should i laugh or cry because EV for that night was margnal

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    While I'm not going to answer your question with a personal number, may I ask what you could conceivably mean by "Did you sense it was coming?"? Are you asking if the player was a mind reader? What a ridiculous question!

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    Wow! Very surprising statement from someone I had the utmost respect for and posted that many times.
    No not a mind reader and I said Sense as in Feel not KNOW.
    Nothing mathematic about it just a feeling. Like this is going to be a Good Day.
    Or have turned you into a Robot?
    Your book just went into the trash along with the respect I had for you.

    I think that will do it for me and this forum too.
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    I wonder how long it would take for Norm to delete a post where I said someone he asked a ridiculous question.

    njrich, to answer your question: the most I won in one shoe was $80K betting 2x4000.
    Planned a 5 day trip to a beautiful candy store to slowly hit a 70K goal.
    First shoe of the first night the count quickly sky rockets and made 80K winning almost every single round.
    Needless to say I was bored out of my mind for the rest of the trip.

    Edit: I didnt sense it coming. If I had I would have planned for a much shorter trip.

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    My player edge at true 0 is .2% so I am always expecting positve variance.

    Mine was 6deck, $350, playing 2 x 10 to 2 x 25 the whole shoe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bjarg View Post

    Edit: I didnt sense it coming. If I had I would have planned for a much shorter trip.
    That's actually pretty funny - thanks for the chuckle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by njrich View Post
    Wow! Very surprising statement from someone I had the utmost respect for and posted that many times.
    Your book just went into the trash along with the respect I had for you.

    I think that will do it for me and this forum too.
    nj, I try not to worship anyone so much that one thing they say crushes me so much.
    Some others enjoyed your post and replied.

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    Yeah people like talking about themselves and their experiences.

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    Your response is even more ridiculous than the second part of your question. You don't FEEL the greatest shoe of your life coming, before it happens. You don't SENSE it. The statement is just plain absurd. If you want to think like that, then your question belongs in the Voodoo forum, along with the rest of the nonsense there.

    As for anyone else who answered the first part of your question, I told you I had no comment about that. The fact that you would take offense at someone who tells you that having a premonition about the coming of the greatest shoe in your life is horseshit, is much more revealing about you than it ever could be about me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bjarg View Post
    I wonder how long it would take for Norm to delete a post where I said someone he asked a ridiculous question.
    It is quite possible for an intelligent person to pose a ridiculous question, purposely or not. OTOH, idiot specifically refers to a stupid person. Both in its original and current usage.

    Now, if the question was meant to indicate a belief that you can accurately sense such things, that would appear ridiculous, unless you had some additional info -- like the dealer was a notorious flasher and the casino was busy watching Don Johnson three tables down. But, the question could also just be whether or not you coincidentally happened to feel it was going to be a good day, without any implication that there was any actual connection between the feeling and the result. People get such feelings all the time. But, they are more likely due to something irrelevant to the result, like just having had a good bowel movement.
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