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Sundown
More of a rant as I don't have anyone to share my emotions with as card counting is a lonely sport.
Since I was thrown out of my close to home casino, I found another about 25 minutes away. It's actually the same ownership, but I wanted to see if I would be recognized. I figured if they pull something I would have just said "Oh well I thought that was for the other property not here".
I was surprised as the game was better, 8 decks, split, double any 2 cards, surrender, BJ pays 3:2 (don't know all the acronyms) only issue was Hit soft 17. What made up for the Hit soft 17 was that penetration was phenomenal! I'm talking about a deck and even less was where they placed the cut card as opposed to 1.5 -2.5 at the other spot. I thought the reason I was kicked out was that the Universe was telling me to find this place!
As I begin playing with Dollar signs in my eyes, I lost without exaggeration 12 hands in a row and not even 2 decks were played before I had to dig into reserves. I thought I would just have to hang tight since penetration was so good and utilize the bet spread when my count called for max bet. Well the count never materialized and the first shoe ended.
The second shoe and so on were more of the same, and when the count finally indicated it was time to make some money, the dealer got all the 10s and the sloppy ploppy next to me got the blackjacks.
Dear Lord, did I do something wrong, did I mistreat someone today, I'm sorry if I did. No way, this casino must be cheating , how do I know the cards they are using are on the up and up, why me and more voodoo talk.
When it was time to leave I just couldn't book the loss and decided to stay and keep counting. Was dead tired, had to be at work early in the morning and was mad I had lost so much money on what I thought was a fantastic opportunity.
In closing, I found a monster of a shoe and was able to dig myself out of the hole. I got so excited on a particular hand that I won and I forgot the count (dangerous). I decided to just flat bet the remainder of the shoe and then proceeded to win the next 8 hands. I realize that this was my lost opportunity ( I think it's called EV), and now I'm headed back down there to try it all over again.
Moral of the story.....well don't really know, but from paying attention to this site, I think in the long run, I will win those hands, and most likely just ran into some variance.
Sincerely
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