Lifetime Backoffs per Hour Played

[Midwest Player]

I thought it would be interesting to see how many backoffs we are getting per hour played. I know a lot of folks don't have accurate records on this, but a good estimate is good enough. I didn't start keeping track of my hours played until the year 2000. So my best guess for each session played (in most cases a session is one day) is between 5 and 6 hours played. Its probably closer to 5 hours than 6 for each session because when I was working full time I could not play a real long session.

However, my total lifetime number of times I played is exactly 2,200 times. Now lets assume 5 hours for each session played and we have 11,000 hours for my total lifetime blackjack play. So if I divide by my total number of backoffs, I have one backoff for every 2,200 hours played.

I should mention for about the first 10 years of my blackjack play I wasn't a very good player and no backoffs occured. I just didn't spread enough.

Okay, anybody else want to mention how many backoffs they are getting per hour played.

[ZeeBabar]

Aren’t Backoffs related to your style of play? Your spread, your act, etc. I mean, someone going from $10 to 2 hands of $500 is more likely to get a back off than someone playing a 1-8 spread. A DD player might get backed off more often then someone playing an 8 deck game, etc.etc.

[Midwest Player]

Aren’t Backoffs related to your style of play? Your spread, your act, etc. I mean, someone going from $10 to 2 hands of $500 is more likely to get a back off than someone playing a 1-8 spread. A DD player might get backed off more often then someone playing an 8 deck game, etc.etc.

True. However, I'm just looking for number of backoffs per hour played. I don't care what brought them about.

[RTR2021]

....I have one backoff for every 2,200 hours played....

I can only dream about having a backoff rate that low.

[ZeeBabar]

I can only dream about having a backoff rate that low.

Not everyone uses a slash and burn style.

[Old, but not dead]

Approx. once every 160 hours. Rate is much higher in single deck than shoe games. Would be much worse except for a 6 deck game I played for many years never getting backed off (1864 hours total on this one game)

[refinery]

All of my back offs were in the last hour.

[sn1per]

Playing sessions on primarily shoe games I average a backoff every 65 hours or so.


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[Stealth]

Not relevant.

Backoffs are more about style of play.