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Don't even get me started on this... I almost HATE to make good plays like this, because that's when you suddenly find yourself in a forced, "friendly" conversation with the Pit Boss. Grrrr.... Just let me play in peace!!

Hey, Ellis.. don't forget all your students who've "proved it at the tables" as well. Like me.

Niki, I use a 1,2,3 and then go to 1, 3, 4 after I win the second 1,2,3 bet twice. I start that progression right away. If I ever lose 2 progressions in a row, I leave the table. That happened twice. On the flip side, twice I had my 3-bet saved by taking insurance! :arms:

Geez, Ellis.. you might be used to having 100 people at a time watching you, but I'm not! I got nervous when you'd walk up to my table... despite my nice chip stacks in front of me. It felt like James Bond was watching me!

Since Uncle Ellis mentioned me, thought I'd give a detailed update of my own, since everyone is probably wondering "How'd she win $1500 in between babysitting?" For starters, I'd like to clarify: You don't "babysit" your own children, unless you're the dad. I'm the Mom. My playing time was generally between 8am-4pm. I don't like going down to play when the tables become full of drunken 21 year olds. No offense, as I was one of them once (for a minute!).. just don't like them filling my table. I was playing $10 and $15 dollar units for my wins. I had 9 buy-ins for 12 units in the games I played. I won 7 of those games and hit my stop loss of 12 chips in the other 2 and left those. I played the two deck game at Gold Coast (x3) and the six deck game at the MGM Grand (x4) and the Luxor (x2). I found the Gold Coast hand held two deck game clumped. I would start Basic at the start of a shoe, and could easily spot a clump to switch tactics. It was challenging to keep my focus in a particular game as when I played the clump I received lots of loud criticism for my play by the other players. I was blamed for "not following the rules".. this from a gentleman who was busting out of his THIRD buy-in of $200! He was particularly miffed when I wouldn't double on an 11.. when every card in front of me showed a 7 or lower! I made a 20 with low cards.. pushed the 20 the dealer made with low cards and he lost with a 19. When I tried to point out that he would have lost regardless, it didn't matter. The dealer STILL would have made a hand, and he would have lost.. and I would have lost 2!! On another hand I took 7 cards to make a 21, while the dealer had a 6 showing!! The dealer ended up breaking with a 7. Got kuddos from the whole table, except the loud guy. Had a GREAT game at MGM.. sitting at my usual 3rd base (my most comfortable position for me.. just a preference of mine), I was lucky enough to have an older gentleman playing my same strategy sitting right beside me. We ate up more lows than you can imagine.. busted the dealer SO MANY TIMES that I broke my own rule of leaving a game as soon as I lock up my 4th stack of 12 units. I finally left when the Pit Boss decided that our table suddenly needed a card change.. AFTER he made small talk with me for 10 minutes about MINTS and asked if he could have one from my purse! I gave him one, and cashed out while they were getting the new decks opened. His comment to me when I left? "I see you landed a lucky seat." I smiled and said "I guess I did." Another thing I think saved me.. I correctly insured 5 of 6 dealer blackjacks! :1244: All in all.. expenses paid (dinners, taxis, tips, and those EXPENSIVE kid arcades) and I still came home with about $1100. Not too bad for a 2 day work (fun!) week!!

WOW!! That *was* an awesome day! With luck like that, you should have stopped for a lottery ticket on the way home! :arms: Thanks for sharing a great story!

Here's the female opinion: You're more George Clooney than Tom Cruise!

Benadryl?? You obviously have never tried NyQuil... you'll sleep like a baby!

This is primarily caused by the pickup procedure in a multiple deck game. When they pick up the breaking hands first, they are actually sorting the cards by doing this. How? Because the hands that break will be mostly low cards with an occasional high card at the end because of the nature of hitting hands. So now you have a pile with a "clump" of low cards! This is further enhanced by the cards starting off clumped by lack of shuffling to begin with. These hands are then all placed in the discard tray on top of each other. The hands that are left on the table will be for the most part pat hands of high cards or in the case of a low card clump - a self perpetualing low card clump. The addition of forcing crowded seven player games enhances the effect. The fact that they are using 6- 8 decks which cannot be randomized with 2 or at best 3 shuffles doesn't help. I couldn't imagine playing poker at a home game and then picking up the "single" deck of cards and shuffling them only twice and dealing. I would be shot! I am sure that while they say the cards are random and they obviously are not, the different shuffles they employ must also have an effect. If the cards were truly random what would be the purpose of a different shuffle since they are all random cards anyway? Here in lies the paradox that is revealed.

Absolutely true! I never fails to amaze me how many people don't know how to bet and don't know when to alter their card play because they are so ingrained in the traditional blackjack theory. I actually politely laughed along with the people who were laughing AT ME for hitting a 14 during a low card clump (they were all so darn friendly that I had to be polite!)... and yet they still didn't catch on to what I was doing and what was happening right in front of them. I think the only person who caught on was the pit boss, who suddenly was very interested in making conversation with me and changing the decks. He also commented on how "lucky" I was to be the only winner at the table. As a matter of fact, he commented on that multiple times. ~Suzanne Smith