Funny story -

I was playing the 8-decker at my local store last week. Every now and then the pen gets crazy, like the dealer cutting off less than 1/2 deck. I'm camped out with a couple of ploppies as the dealer finishes the cut and begins the shoe. The ploppie to my left says: "Show us the burn card!" We all laugh, so I throw in the additional comment: "Yeah - now all we have to do is to count down the next 415 cards!"

So we get to the end of the shoe to the point where you couldn't even see any cards left in the shoe and the discard tray is filled almost to the top. The count was sky high and I made about $2k in six hands, including some nice hits on the King's Bounty side bet.

Yeah - only 415 more cards to count....