Hi,

I believe I have been cheated in Prauge.
After a couple of days play I have run up significant loses in a very suspisious manner.
I have lots of hours up as a counter and my results arn't out of line with expectaion, so its possible I'm just imagining it because I lost.

Has anybody else who counts lost here ?

I have no hard evidence.

Here is what makes me suspisious ...

At Casino Henry I played a couple of shoes and they were cuting off a little over 2 decks. I saw all the cards and they were shuffled, nothing much happened.
There was some talking in Czec the dealer was changed from a clueless girl to a young streetwise looking Czec guy. He seemed to shuffle normally then cut about 1.25 out of six. Great ! I thought. The count went positive and I just kept losing. It finished highly positive and I had lost all the money in front of me. I stopped.

I think he somehow shuffled the 10s behind the cut card and then gave deep pen to intice me to bet.

A similar thing happened to me at the Savrin which is part of a large reputable corporate chain.
I had usd table to myself. I was getting about 2 decks cut from 6 by the lady dealers and things were rolling along ok. I lost a bit, the count went postive I raised my bet and won a few hundred USD. Suddenly the dealer was changed to a young man. Anyway it was getting late so I decided to quit for the night. I turned to him and said "Well I'm winning so I think I'll quit." He flinched with annoyance and stared to tremble a bit, then composed him self and said good night.

When I returned the next day he was rosted on after a couple of shoes, gave me great penitration and then proceded to take all my money. Again the count went positive and finished positive.

I also lost at the Royal. I don't know if they are doing this on purpose, but its very effective.
I went there on the defensive and got them to give me fresh decks, which they layed out and shuffled. Instead of being spread out like normal they were arranged in small fans. They were then turned over, mixed very lightly and shuffled in a poor way.
When a fresh deck is layed out it runs A23...QK so the cards arrange them selves in clumps.

I lost about 800 usd in the first shoe and then realised what was going on. You can see the cards clumped in their suited groups. Mabey it goes
Ac 3h 2c 4h 3c . Sometimes the groups are corrupted with a couple of high cards but the effect is that you lose fast and lots.
You are always being set up on double downs.
I made a scene and called over the floor manager. He spead out the unplayed cards and sure enough they were clumped.
He offered to prove all the cards were in the deck. I offered the cards as evidence of clumping. The dealers all started laughing and I was told that was just how the blackjack goes. He then told me that I should play somewhere else if I didn't trust the house.

I also lost at the VIP. I was counting for over/under but it never ever became good enough to bet it. Instead I lost about 200 small bet units in the space of 2.5 hours. Everything seemed in order but the game just didn't seem to run right.

There was one casino under a big hotel which I believe is actually a fair game. I lost a little there. Once I started varying my bets they changed the cut from 2 to 3. Which is consistant with normal casino behaviour.