Originally Posted by jbjb View Post
Originally Posted by mcap View Post
After years of full time counting still can’t deal with variance without having a meltdown. Most people get over it at some point or move on.
We recently lost $45k on a carnival game and it didn't even cause us to wince.
There is nothing wrong with a little "wincing" and nothing wrong with a little venting.

Last year which was my 17th year of fulltime play, 12th at my current levels of play, I lost 32, 33k when I returned just after casinos re-opened. Now I have lost 30+k, I don't even know how many times, 6, 7 maybe more. So it should have been no big deal. But what made this a little different, besides the extrodinary circumstances of 2020 and casinos being shut down, is that it occured immadiatly after re-opening, and it occured immediately after I had moved up in stakes. Just sort of caught me off guard even in my 17th year. I went from +13k pre shutdown to -20k in like 2 weeks AND all the loss occured at a single casino, South Point, double deck game.

My immediate, knee-jerk reaction was damn they are cheating. Shorting the deck of A,10's or doing something with the shuffle (hand shuffle) clumping, causing high counts that don't win. I publicly made that accusation (shades of Zenking). And again, this in my 17th year of this shit.

After calming down, running sims revealing within 3 standard divations (closer to 2 than 3), and even checking the opening procedure of the tables, I realized, yeah I had jumped the gun. (there was a bit of odd procedure in the opening of tables that shouldn't be, but that is another matter).

So after a short break, I played on. It was a good game, they were allowing me to play unrated and spread decently. Won back about half of that amount lost in the next several visits and looking back, I am a bit embarrassed at my knee-jerk reaction at this point of my career. Like, I said, the situation was a little bit different than anything I had gone through before with the covid re-opening and higher stakes, But still I should have known better. But no harm in venting and sharing these experiences, new to you. I think it can be beneficial to other players that may someday go through something similar. They may look back and say, "yeah I remember so and so, sharing a similar experience" that may help them.

But the difference with Zenking is it seems to be the exact same situation. He experiences some negative variance and freaks out. To the point of calling every casino in Vegas crooked and every player winning, a liar. It just gets tiring.