Symphony of the Seas

[DSchles]

I have a friend who leaves this Sunday for a cruise on Symphony of the Seas. If anyone has any information about their blackjack games, I'd appreciate hearing back from you.

Thanks.

Don

[JohnGalt007]

According to the b-roll footage from 4 years ago (linked below), 3-to-2 blackjack tables have a table minimum of $40, a table maximum of $500, offer insurance, and the dealer hits soft 17.

https://www.royalcaribbeanpresscente...royale-b-roll/

[DSchles]

Thanks very much!

Don

[21forme]

I was on that ship about 5 years ago. Counted down several shoes, without playing, and they all ended with significant positive counts. Beware!

[Iwantmoney]

If it is significant and cut off less than a deck you can tell isn’t it? Like is count is plus 40 and cut off 38 ? Or like after they riffle once and you chop to it?

[21forme]

I don't understand your comment. What does shop to it mean?

Cut was probably 1.5 decks and HiLo count was +10 or greater (sometimes much greater) each time the cut card came out.

[Iwantmoney]

Chop not shop. I mean say, you note the discards where it gets to. Then the remaining where it goes to. Tada! The combinations you see total sun up or not. And I have to apply the other post of being cryptic to protect everyone here

[21forme]

Shop (vs chop) was a typo on my part. Now I get what you meant, but that is only beneficial if they are dealing complete decks.

[Iwantmoney]

Why only it? I mean you just memorise the discarded then look when the cut cards come out and you know whether the deck was shorted or not.

[Gronbog]

My experience on Royal Caribbean ships has been good. No sign of short shoes in my experience. Penetration was sometimes as good as less than a deck cut off. I can't remember if it was 6 or 8 decks. I do remember that it was DOA DAS H17. The lower limit 6:5 tables were busy and the 3:2 tables were not busy. I got lots of heads up time.

[Iwantmoney]

Do they pressure you or counter measures or throw you off ship when you win?

[albee]

I recently took a cruise where the pen was about a deck or so on a 6-deck shoe. No heat at all going from 1 hand 15 bucks to 1 hand 50 or 2 hands 40. Good luck to your friend......

[DSchles]

Thank you. But he wasn't happy with what he saw. Reported H17, split only once, and rather poor pen. So, in his words, "I looked, I saw, I left!"

Don