Originally Posted by
MDawg
When I play BJ, which is still sometimes these days, I do count and I do employ all the same strategies and schemes I have mentioned in my Adventures thread more than once, at least - all of these techniques that are still available (at least one - knowing what card is face down for the dealer on certain hands - is no longer in play as far as I know). But there are a couple of differences between the way I play BJ and the way these card counters I mention and J mentions do it: they're all grinding.
These days, probably my BJ play is closer to a grind than I would like, but that is because of my past experience where I got banned from playing BJ for a couple years due to winning too much at it. So, I take it easier and spread my BJ bets less than the table min to table max spread that I was utilizing back then. I don't want to get banned due to BJ winning, and I win consistently with Baccarat which they consider a game of chance so they leave me alone even if I win consistently.
Back then, I'd have sessions days on end where I would pretty much bet nothing but either table min or table max at BJ, and I was nailing them so consistently with the table max bets that I suppose they felt that they had no choice but to handicap me to a 3X spread, which was my "ban" - a ban that lasted a couple of years. In other words, even when playing BJ my goal is to clock them for large amounts, not to sit there trying to grind out a percent advantage that might get eaten up with variance anyway. Obviously nothing, advantage percentage wise, necessarily justifies a jump to table max in BJ, but I always felt that the combination of a positive count plus the other things I was looking for and was able to take advantage of, did justify a jump to table max, and for whatever reason, I won these table max BJ bets very consistently, sometimes, for days on end, every single time.