Final nail in the coffin

[kewlJ]

Well since it's still Memorial Day weekend, I'm sure he's not finished getting cheated in that mob run town.

You joke about that jbjb and it is sort of funny, but I beleive this to be one of if not the single biggest issue for Zenking.

I don't know exactly how you and your team work, so I am asking with some interest. What happens if you find a juicy game, (straight up counting), maybe extrordinary penetration, or some favorable rules. So after playing this juicy game for a while, a fairly significant amount of play (still statitsically insignificant), you are seeing results that seem pretty unuusal, maybe in the red, or with a large enough sample size, maybe winning but far below expectation. Results unusual enough that thoughts that something isn't on the up and up start to creep into your head. How do you handle it?

Basically you can either move on to other games that you are move comfortable with or continue to play this game that you are starting to become uncomfortable with, and try to prove something, I guess to yourself. I have gone both ways. At EC, when I became uncomfortable with extended results, I sort of did an in-betweener. Stopped playing but wasted time counting down hundreds of shoes.

In the end you realize or at least I did, that it isn't about beating every single casino, every single game, every single dealer, it is about making money in the longrun. And to that end, if there is a game, a situation, a dealer that you are uncomfortable with, it is best to move on. You aren't going to prove anything and aren't going to get to a number (large enogh sample size) at any given situation to prove or disprove anything. You prove it at the end of the year when you can say I won this amount playing the game. Try to prove it for every situation and you just end up stuck in the mud, spinning your wheels wasting time that could be spent winning elsewhere toward the long-term.

In short, I view it as a football game. Every play doesn't work. Some lose yardage. Sometimes several in a row don't work and you have to punt. You win at the end of the game when more have worked than not and you have more points.