First off I'd like to introduce myself, I'm 22, going to school part time for IT & working a $10/hr job in Wisconsin. Bills are only car payment & insurance so I've been saving some money up. Quick run down, went to the casino 35 minutes from me for the first time 3 weeks ago, played blackjack for a couple hours and left being up $75. Got back and spent all week learning to count & memorize BS. Went back a week later to see if I could keep the count in a real shoe game. By the way I play 6-deck, $10 min. About 75%-80% pen. Some dealers here actually show you the burn cards. 3-2 H-s17. 2 hours in I was having a little bit of trouble keeping the count while playing but left with 85$ profit. Spent all week practicing, getting faster, and this week I could keep the count through the whole game no problem and only played 3 full shoes & left with $235 profit.
My biggest question is deciding on a bet spread for me. I've only been bringing 2-3 hundred with, but have a larger bankroll just not comfortable with much larger sums as I am still very new and have the "maybe I've just gotten lucky" thought stuck in the back of my head. Last session was my first session playing seriously, while betting 2x - 6x minimum bet based off TC 1-6.
Also, I want to set limits to stay under the radar, when should I be happy with my return and leave each night, should I try for more quantitative returns over quality returns more spread out? Especially because the casino is so close & I drive a hybrid?
For my counting right now I'm just using Hi-Lo, my casino uses the shuffle masters, there are hand shuffle pitch games but with a 25$ min. So I figured when my bank roll increases I'll get into shuffle tracking for that. While browsing these forums I saw something about ASC, would something like that be my "next step" in improving my game?
Any tips at all for being new to the AP scene would be great!
-JG
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