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    Hello there. I’m seeking a group of 6 people who would be interested in meeting in vegas and playing team blackjack at a 25-5000 table which can be found at ceasears, Bellagio, planet Hollywood, mirage, cosmo, and mandalay bay. If 4 or more hands lose, we’d bet $50 and so on until at least 4 out of 6 hands win. We continue this for 1 shoe and then leave on a table win. After this, we divide the profits evenly.

    Based on my calculations we’d get about 16 hands in for 6 players. Playing basic strategy gives us a lose rate of 51 percent. .51^8= 0.45 percent chance of losing the bankroll for one person. This is divided out over 6 people for a 0.076 percent chance of losing the bankroll as a group.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DocSpaulding View Post
    Hello there. I’m seeking a group of 6 people who would be interested in meeting in vegas and playing team blackjack at a 25-5000 table which can be found at ceasears, Bellagio, planet Hollywood, mirage, cosmo, and mandalay bay. If 4 or more hands lose, we’d bet $50 and so on until at least 4 out of 6 hands win. We continue this for 1 shoe and then leave on a table win. After this, we divide the profits evenly.

    Based on my calculations we’d get about 16 hands in for 6 players. Playing basic strategy gives us a lose rate of 51 percent. .51^8= 0.45 percent chance of losing the bankroll for one person. This is divided out over 6 people for a 0.076 percent chance of losing the bankroll as a group.

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    Doc, you're on the wrong site for this. This is a forum for people who play the game with an advantage. What you're suggesting isn't going to win you any money, and most of the people here know that.

    Don

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    Doc, you're on the wrong site for this. This is a forum for people who play the game with an advantage. What you're suggesting isn't going to win you any money, and most of the people here know that.

    Don
    oh i thought this was the general forum, not the advantage play. But sure it will, I included math. I'd take expected value to be 12 a hand

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    Quote Originally Posted by DocSpaulding View Post
    oh i thought this was the general forum, not the advantage play. But sure it will, I included math. I'd take expected value to be 12 a hand

    This IS the general forum, but what I'm explaining is that you aren't going to find your teammates here. The people here know that you can't gain an advantage at a negative-edge game by employing a betting strategy. Basically, what you're suggesting is how to weave straw into gold, and you aren't going to get any takers here.

    Don

    P.S. A favor: PLEASE don't explain the math to us!

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    I'm not flipping an advatage. the house remains with an edge even with basic strategy. What i'm saying is the dealer won't beat 6 players with a vegas range of 25-5000 table . Its a simple (.51^8)/6. 1 player may get creamed with a martingale (.0045 or .45% chance), but that's why we divy it up against 6 the odds go down to .00076 or .076% chance. If organized, we can beat the casinos and at least pay for our trip.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DSchles View Post
    what you're suggesting is how to weave straw into gold
    Don - if you're putting together a team for this, I'm in.


    Quote Originally Posted by DocSpaulding View Post
    What i'm saying is the dealer won't beat 6 players with a vegas range of 25-5000 table .
    Doc - you obviously don't know who you are conversing with. Don has written THE book on modern blackjack math. And you are wrong.

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    Perhaps I should find Don's book on amazon just in case my math is incorrect. Don't want to lose money, looking to make money. But I ran the numbers here, and even showed it.

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    Ok. I'm on your side. You could do this. A bloke calling himself Norman Leigh did something similar with the game of Roulette circa 1970 and in the South of France as I recall. His approach involved a biased wheel system-whereby the betting structure would automatically expose and thereby exploit any biased wheels. His purportedly successful Mushroom Gang was eventually shut down by the casino gambling authorities. He details his exploits in a book he titled, Thirteen Against the Bank. I'm sure you can locate a copy in an online used bookstore. However, be careful and judicious of who you choose for your recruits! Leigh was not and it proved to be his downfall. And while on the subject of gambling systems, have you ever heard of Parrando's Paradox?
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    I've seen roulette ruin people with lots of straight reds or lots of straight evens etc. I wouldn't touch that, especially with the triple 0's i've been seeing. But i'd love to add you to the facebook group with Blong, Lorenzo and I if you're interested @jabberwocky

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jabberwocky View Post
    Ok. I'm on your side. You could do this. A bloke calling himself Norman Leigh did something similar with the game of Roulette circa 1970 and in the South of France as I recall. His approach involved a biased wheel system-whereby the betting structure would automatically expose and thereby exploit any biased wheels. His purportedly successful Mushroom Gang was eventually shut down by the casino gambling authorities. He details his exploits in a book he titled, Thirteen Against the Bank. I'm sure you can locate a copy in an online used bookstore. However, be careful and judicious of who you choose for your recruits! Leigh was not and it proved to be his downfall. And while on the subject of gambling systems, have you ever heard of Parrando's Paradox?
    Sorry, but you have just about all of this wrong.

    He didn't set out to find biased wheels, but to apply the reverse-Labouchere progression across all six of the evens payoff bets on the felt - with each member of his team betting on one of them. Nothing advantage about it. All of his team members had to fund their own trip and expenses, and bankroll themselves, and he took a slice of any profits. The bit in his book about him and his partners in crime being expelled from France after they'd won a bundle is all fiction. In actual fact, he and his wife returned home to the UK broke.

    Norman Leigh died impoverished in January 1993 and received a paupers funeral. I have all of this on first hand authority as, six years ago, I had lunch with the former Mrs Leigh and her husband. You can read her responses to some questions here: http://www.uk-21.org/thirteen_against_the_bank.shtml .
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    The OP's scheme is not something I would personally choose to undertake. But it would be interesting to see how far he got with such an ambitious plan.
    Mr. Leigh hatched his system based upon the outcomes of thousands of spins conducted on a cheap toy roulette wheel. By inference those results had to be biased because they came from biased equipment. Admittedly, that small sampling would hardly provide enough data to be statistically significant. In essence virtually any cancellation betting system would have succeeded not only the Reverse Labby-provided biased wheels were involved. Furthermore, the author's account might well be complete fiction. I never advanced any claim to the contrary. But it does make for a compelling drama if it were true.

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    Here's a link to the book: https://www.lasvegasadvisor.com/shop...-the-pros-way/
    A better price than on amazon.

    Bottom line - you can't beat the game (long term) with money management systems, such as progressions. Anything can happen short term.

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    Don said
    Basically, what you're suggesting is how to weave straw into gold, and you aren't going to get any takers here.
    Not possible - but straw into brick - it’s been done
    https://youtu.be/pnloZiMv4-Q

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