Tips on back counting?

[BoSox]

So when back counting are you guys just trying to back count a portion of the shoe.

One key point in all of this is that you do not want to make the pen worse than whatever it was starting out of a new shoe. So the only way to do that is to start your back counting on the very first hand.

For example, you walk up and see the shoe is two decks in. You watch a couple rounds

Don't get into that type of bad habit. Why would you even consider thinking that you will watch a couple of rounds at that point of the game? Think about what you would be contemplating. Example: The table is an eight-deck game that started out with 75% pen that is now 50% pen, "in a six-deck game the pen will be even less with that same starting 75% pen with 2 decks already in", in that same example.

Now on the other hand, if you walk by a table and see a shit load of small cards already on the felt and you want to see another round go-ahead but it is not going to be much of a great opportunity especially if two decks are in the discard tray. Remember first in order for you to have seen all those low cards there had to be a somewhat crowded table, to begin with, and not only are you going to wong in but chances are you might also wong out quickly after a few hands, which may draw unwanted attention to yourself.