Originally Posted by
DSchles
Suggestion: with your mathematical knowledge and the money you've made from playing the game, don't you think you might be able to afford to go to the casino with more than $1,000 in your pocket and play properly? Just sayin'.
Don
I could go with more than $1,000 but I play for fun and to make a little money. I play bj so I can play the the Lucky Ladies. I get them maybe twice a year and they pay 200 to 1 and I usually have $15 on them when I play so I get $3,000. And the LL bet has a big edge but the large payouts also means big variance. That is why I start increasing my LL bet to only $10 on as many hands as possible when LLc > 30 for six decks and increase my LL bet over $10 if I am winning and LLc > 30. And remember that is a day trip bankroll. If I lost it, so what, I come back the next day with another $1,000. But the way I play and the $1,000 is only for a day trip I hardly ever lost my $1,000.
Also because we are basically playing bj to play the LL and we are flat betting and playing only when we have a large edge. we usually only keep the KO and AA89mTc. I do not usually keep the 5m7c as we are not spreading our bets and we are playing bj to play the large edges you get on the LL bet. If Blazing 7's is offered so I do add the 5m7c to the KO with AA89mTc. But otherwise I usually do not even use the 5m7c. But when I do use 5m7c then I call over Carla when either brc = betting running count = KO + (1/2)*(5m7c) >= 24 or LLc = KO + AA89mTc >= 24 for the six deck game.
I am at the casino for maybe 4 or 5 hours and most of the time Carla and I are back counting tables. We only play when there are several table available and open spots to jump in. We jump in and call each other over when either KO >= 24 or LLc = KO + AA89mTc >= 24. So when LLc >= 30 then the LL bet is approximately equal to our blackjack bet and the LL edge is large so the average edge of LL and bj is also very large. LL bets are essentially independent of bj bets so we play as many hands as possible. (Someone pointed out that if dealer has bj and you have QHQH you get $1,000 to 1 so LL is not totally independent of blackjack bets but close enough and if you get 1000 to 1 who cares if you lose your bj hand! But in playing LL for over 5 years I have gotten QHQH many times but I have never gotten QHQH with dealer bj).
Just as a disclaimer. I have never played DD games and in the shoe game the most I bet is $25 on bj - usually only $15 and of course I play the LL. So I have no practical experience to back up my analysis of large bets and bet spreads.
I am interested if someone actually uses the information I posted on KO with AA89mTc and 5m7c and if they can then write back their own experiences.
Anyhow I hope that the information I have posted others find useful.
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