Originally Posted by accountinquestion View Post
Could you tell us how you go about tracking multiple tables? You literally mean "multiple" and not 2? You backcount multiple tables then sit down when one is decent? Or are you sitting down at one and able to watch another?

I really have no idea. I only tried counting once briefly. Not my thing.
I don't remember exactly when, but it was early....back in my Atlantic City days. At that time I was playing low stakes and I didn't want to play through ALL negative counts for a different reason....I couldn't afford to. With 8 deck games that were in Atlantic City, the count can go significantly negative and stay there for the entire shoe. That can be 30-40 rounds with other players. Playing underfunded on a shoe string BR, I couldn't just sit there and play 40 rounds at true counts of -4, -5 while waiting for a new shoe. So I exited at that point to try to find a new game. Eventually I just started looking for that new game or opportunity before I had exited the first. It was just a natural progression.

Unfortunately the opportunities in AC were limited because tables were usually full and not all tables were limits that I could afford to play. So it was sort of an occasional thing. When I moved to Vegas with less crowded conditions, it became a much bigger part of my game.

Now I say multiple tables, in part to get my doubters all fired up, , but most of the time, 98% of the time, it is tracking one other table than what I am playing. There have been a few times that if everything else is just right, and there are tables on each side of me, and I have clear views, and they happen to be starting a new shuffle at the same time, I can track both (while playing my game) for a round or two at most. By that time I drop the lesser opportunity of the two and focus on the table with the better count.

I sort of view the whole exercise as a variation of the team call in approach used by the MIT teams and other teams. I think blackjack hall of famer, Al Francesco gets credit for the technique but who knows if someone did it prior. With this technique there is a spotter back counting several tables, dropping tables if the count goes negative, picking up new tables starting from a fresh shuffle and then calling in the big player or "gorilla" player to a positive advantage count. Tracking a second table is sort of playing both parts, on a smaller scale.

Bottom line, it allows a player to play many more rounds at max bet or significant advantage count that playing all at one table. If a player playing one table see's 10% counts @ say true count +3 or higher, tracking a second table can bump that number up close to 20%. Probably not quite double because there are times that the count at both tables are great and the player can only play one. There are also times you track a second table the count is growing strong and at the last second a player or two (sometimes backcounting card counters) jump in and gobble up the open seats. All that work, down the drain....those nasty card counters.

I am sure this little discussion will ignite the haters and naysayers (probably on several forums), but that is just them proving yet again, their ignorance on the subject. Blinded by their hate.