Over the years I have seen and been a part of way to many discussions about number of blackjack hands won or lost in a row. Most discussion about hands lost in a row. I honestly don't know what the most hands I have lost in a row are, because it is not something I keep track of when I pay at the B & M casinos. It is something I don't even think about until I have lost 7, or 8, or maybe 9 and then you notice, but is it 7, or 8, or 9, or was there possibly a win mixed in that you forgot about. So, I don't keep track and it isn't really important.
So right now I am into one of my online sportsbook bonus play through. Bonus whoring. I only use the online sites for the sportsbook, I very, very rarely play in their casinos, because frankly, I have no confidence that the games are honest. Blackjack only counts as .05% of a dollar towards bonus rollover anyway. So just no interest.
So this afternoon, while watching some basketball, I get an email from one of the sportsbook/casinos telling me that today only, the casino games count towards rollover at 50 cents on the dollar. 10x the normal rate. I should have been suspicious right there. And I was, but decided to play and try to work off some money towards rollover.
Now when I do play online, I always count wins and losses. A running count just to see how close the game is to statistical norms of about 43% wins. I don't count pushes, so my number should be closer to about 45, or 46.
So I play a couple hundred hands and it is back and forth, I am running 6 or 7 losses ahead of win, which is close to "Normal". And then I lose 16 hands in a row. I have played millions of hands of blackjack in my 20 years and I am pretty sure I have never lost 16 hands in a row.
It was only a few hundred dollars lost. But all I am going to say is this incident, only adds to my earlier suspicions that these online casino games aren't pure. I just don't believe it. And I don't think I can be convinced otherwise.