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The notion of "mixing it up" may or may not work, and for two different reasons. First, departures per hour is a vastly overrated concept. People write about the advanced counts with 100 indices as if an opportunity for a departure comes down the pike every other hand. Nothing could be further from the truth. You can play for an entire hour and make maybe one departure. And, it will be the exception and not the rule that, for any given hour of play, you will actually get to play the same hand two different ways, to show how you like to "mix it up." Clearly, 16 vs. 10 will be the most likely candidate.
Finally, understand that whether you say anything to the pit boss or not, and whether he even sees your departures, ultimately, it's the EITS that gets you. No one can hear anything up there; all they can do is see how you're playing the hands and how the plays correlate with the count, which, in turn, is what can get you in trouble.
So, I think the jury is still out on whether using more departures helps to make you look less skillful or more. Sure, a good act is crucial, but in the end, I've never been able to play the role of the idiot at a blackjack table, so I don't even try. And, of course, that can be a problem, because, if I do something, it's not because I'm dumb, but because it's the right thing to do.
As with all these things, YMMV.
Don
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