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I had a monster count that killed me. The running count hardly moved for the last 2.5 decks dealt. I felt like I had made a mistake but the cards were probably behind the cut card. It usually doesn't happen that way and I can tell you if the deck is changing composition with the same required bet. The deck composition stayed homogenous through the entire end of the shoe with little variation. In other words the tag weighted ratio of lows to T's and lows to aces hardly changed at all. The cards usually don't happen come out evenly by rank at high counts. Often the advantage stays the same but the deck composition shifts drastically. I call it side stepping or going sideways because the deck composition changes a lot but the advantage stays constant.
The other reason you get killed at times with big bets out is the dealer is likely to have aces and T's as the up-card round after round. That can make winning quite difficult. Losing lots of big bets adds up to big losses.
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