The Adventures of MDawg (in progress)

[MDawg]

Bob, I know what you want to hear, but for now I'm just going to expand on the card counting topic.

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.

[mickeycrimm]

Bob, I know what you want to hear, but for now I'm just going to expand on the card counting topic.

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.

You didn't get banned for winning to much. You got banned for not disguising your play enough. I like your "no answer" on telling Bob21 how to beat baccarat. You can't tell him how because you don't really have a working strategy. If you won last year it was outhouse luck. So why don't you tell Bob21 the truth, that you have to get lucky to beat baccarat.

And your thread is not getting much action here anymore.