Getting serious about Blackjack

[jayveno082]

What materials should I be looking for to get serious about playing blackjack? I've been playing for about a year now and I do have some level of skill. I'm really interested in these different betting methods. I like to use this system(I don't know the name of it by the way)

I sit back and observe all the tables.
Weigh each person there to see if they are a chump or actually are paying attention.
Prefer to sit on the boot or the first seat but with most good players even the middle seat is ok
I walk in with about 500 dollars max. Planning to do more here soon.
I bet based off of what I have been seeing. Larger cards do attract my attention

50.
75.
50
90
50
300.
It mostly is based off of a mood thing. I play daily and make out with about 2500 to 4500 a day but I know there are ways to get better at this game.
What I'm asking for is ways to upgrade my betting method in a fashion that would still make me feel comfortable.
I recently came across casinos where the max bet is 5,000 and my fingers are itching.
With this method that i've been using i'm sure that i can go from 2500-4500 to adding an extra zero on them
There also has to be a way to not sit in there for so long too. For me to make this much is taking about 2 to 3 hours.

[Frostbyte]

If you're not counting or tracking cards in some other way, your results thus far are positive variance (or, less technically, "dumb luck"). Basic strategy is still a negative-expectation game. Playing by feel is a very dangerous tendency as it works just well enough to get you into serious trouble.

Your description of your betting does not indicate any kind of advantage analysis: you're still gambling. You are not playing a winning game. Your description of salivating at a 5k table max does not help this.

Your comment on being attracted by large cards suggests you subscribe to the discredited card-clumping myth. You have it backwards: an early outflux of small cards is what makes the game good for you.

If you're going to continue playing like this, you're better off not playing at all.

[jayveno082]

I do agree with you about the lower cards being more helpful. I know the basic's of the basic's as to when to hit or not to hit. What the dealer has and what could be coming next. I do a basic count and only get excited when I know that for the most part the higher cards would be coming my way. I typically play in a non human fashion meaning that I play as if I'm dealing. I noticed that the most faults come my way when I sit around and think about whats coming next. Most of the time I do know whats coming because common sense says track all the cards that have come out. As for the playing by feel well sometimes we all just enjoy that one huge bet that won't hurt as badly.

My betting is based off of a system that keeps me on my toes. I don't place the same bets all the time because I do know that we are being watch at all times. The numbers that I posted are just a rough rendition of how I would go about things to randomize the amount that I am seen taking in.

I want to play the game pretty badly though so what would you suggest I do to actually be what would be referred to as a professional?
I'm an open book. I pick up numbers crazy fast and like everybody on this forum I want to make some extra money right?

[moo321]

Stop gambling. Go read some books on card-counting, or at least learn basic strategy. Seriously, just go to the library, and get a couple of books.

[jayveno082]

I know all of it. I can count easily up to an 8 deck with no problem on about two to four tables pending on the amount of people playing. I know basic strategy to a T. I've sat down for hundreds of hours and I mean hundreds of hours with my own shoes and practiced and practiced and practiced. My problem is finding the way to raise the bar on everything. I've made just under four hundred thousand this past year playing. I've seen people playing on the same tables making three to four times that much. I want to get on their levels.

[Three]

Based on your OP I don't think anyone is going to believe you.

I walk in with about 500 dollars max.

I've made just under four hundred thousand this past year playing

Go back to that glass of vino and the joint Jayveno.

For me to make this much is taking about 2 to 3 hours.

[Boz]

[QUOTE=Tthree;28583]Based on your OP I don't think anyone is going to believe you.


LOL yeah i think he's got a screw loose

[RS]

How often do you walk in with 500 and walk out with a net win? Do you actually count when you're watching?

[Smartpart]

Four hundred thousand what? If you tell us USD, quit now and you will have lifetime profits more than most of this board.

[Frostbyte]

I know all of it. I can count easily up to an 8 deck with no problem on about two to four tables pending on the amount of people playing. I know basic strategy to a T. I've sat down for hundreds of hours and I mean hundreds of hours with my own shoes and practiced and practiced and practiced. My problem is finding the way to raise the bar on everything. I've made just under four hundred thousand this past year playing. I've seen people playing on the same tables making three to four times that much. I want to get on their levels.

My capacity for being diplomatic is at its end. ROFLMAO at this.

[Tom]

Four hundred thousand what? If you tell us USD, quit now and you will have lifetime profits more than most of this board.

Four hundred thousand won!!!!! Look out peeps, we got a high roller in da house!!!

[Smartpart]

I don't think they would let him bet 50 won per hand.

[Tom]

I don't think they would let him bet 50 won per hand.

Well, you never know maybe they do!!! After all, this genius plays each day with minimum 88% risk of ruin. How can he lose! If he really does play every single day of the year (doubtful), then mathematically he would only win about 44 days out of the whole year.....even winning $4500/day that's less than $200,000.... of course that doesn't account for all the losing days (let's pretend those don't exist).