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Blackjack has been a source of success for me though I'm unconventional in my betting strategy which seems to enrage the other players even when I break the dea

Blackjack has been a source of success for me though I'm unconventional in my betting strategy which seems to enrage the other players even when I break the dealer consistently.

phkahler 7y ago
Dont they kick you out if you're consistently winning?
- forbiddenvoid 7y ago
  Not necessarily. Casinos will kick you out for a particular set of behaviors. Just winning isn't enough. Playing a minimum bet for a long time, then suddenly increasing to the max near the last half of a shoe is a good way to get a casino to ask you to stop playing blackjack.
- GVIrish 7y ago
  Only if you're winning a lot of money. They don't care that a small fish wins a few hundred dollars every now and then.
listenallyall 7y ago
You've never broken the dealer. Dealer has specific rules in blackjack of when to hit or stand that are completely independent of your cards, betting amount or strategy, emotional attitude, or how good or bad your breath smells.
scarejunba 7y ago
More likely it's just numbers, right? If 1024 people flip coins ten times in a row, it's expected that one of them gets 10 heads. But he's not a genius, right? Of course you should always back yourself. So more power to you if you're winning in this way. At least you get to keep playing :)
- stordoff 7y ago
  Derren Brown had an interesting example of this on UK TV a few years ago. It's nothing new, but showing it this way demonstrates how you can get drawn in: > The System, a Channel 4 special in which Brown shared his "100 percent guaranteed" method for winning on the horses, was first shown on 1 February 2008. > The show was based around the idea that a system could be developed to "guarantee a winner" of horse races. Cameras followed a member of the public, Khadisha, as Brown anonymously sent her correct predictions of five races in a row, before encouraging her to place as much money as she could on the sixth race. > After Brown had placed a bet of £4,000 of Khadisha's money on a horse in the final race, he explained how "The System" worked. He had started by contacting 7,776 people and split them into six groups, giving each group a different horse. As each race had taken place 5⁄6 of the people had lost and were dropped from the system. Brown had a different person backing each horse in each race, and one individual, Khadisha, won five times in a row. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Derren_Brown_shows#Derren_Brown:_The_System_(2008) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Derren_Brown_shows#Der...
  - Spooky23 7y ago
    Horse racing isn’t blackjack, and there are better ways to get an edge. One former colleague had a hobby/obsession. He collected a ton of data and employed a bunch of strategies based on horse, jockey and particularly trainer performance. One example where he had a good yield was playing shitty races (there are different tiers of horse races, from fancy ones like the Belmont Stakes to down to older or younger horses) in bad turf conditions. He’d look at what horses scratched and which trainers usually scratched and make different bets as the odds would be screwy and in his favor. He bought toys with his winnings, and his process was making him a decent buck, at least until he retired and we lost touch. If casino gambling hadn’t gone mainstream, there would be a lot of interesting activity in throughbred racing — now it’s a legacy backwater sport.

Blackjack has been a source of success for me though I'm unconventional in my betting strategy which seems to enrage the other players even when I break the dealer consistently.

phkahler 7y ago

Dont they kick you out if you're consistently winning?

forbiddenvoid 7y ago
Not necessarily. Casinos will kick you out for a particular set of behaviors. Just winning isn't enough. Playing a minimum bet for a long time, then suddenly increasing to the max near the last half of a shoe is a good way to get a casino to ask you to stop playing blackjack.
GVIrish 7y ago
Only if you're winning a lot of money. They don't care that a small fish wins a few hundred dollars every now and then.

listenallyall 7y ago

You've never broken the dealer. Dealer has specific rules in blackjack of when to hit or stand that are completely independent of your cards, betting amount or strategy, emotional attitude, or how good or bad your breath smells.

scarejunba 7y ago

More likely it's just numbers, right? If 1024 people flip coins ten times in a row, it's expected that one of them gets 10 heads. But he's not a genius, right? Of course you should always back yourself. So more power to you if you're winning in this way. At least you get to keep playing :)

stordoff 7y ago
Derren Brown had an interesting example of this on UK TV a few years ago. It's nothing new, but showing it this way demonstrates how you can get drawn in: > The System, a Channel 4 special in which Brown shared his "100 percent guaranteed" method for winning on the horses, was first shown on 1 February 2008. > The show was based around the idea that a system could be developed to "guarantee a winner" of horse races. Cameras followed a member of the public, Khadisha, as Brown anonymously sent her correct predictions of five races in a row, before encouraging her to place as much money as she could on the sixth race. > After Brown had placed a bet of £4,000 of Khadisha's money on a horse in the final race, he explained how "The System" worked. He had started by contacting 7,776 people and split them into six groups, giving each group a different horse. As each race had taken place 5⁄6 of the people had lost and were dropped from the system. Brown had a different person backing each horse in each race, and one individual, Khadisha, won five times in a row. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Derren_Brown_shows#Derren_Brown:_The_System_(2008) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Derren_Brown_shows#Der...
- Spooky23 7y ago
  Horse racing isn’t blackjack, and there are better ways to get an edge. One former colleague had a hobby/obsession. He collected a ton of data and employed a bunch of strategies based on horse, jockey and particularly trainer performance. One example where he had a good yield was playing shitty races (there are different tiers of horse races, from fancy ones like the Belmont Stakes to down to older or younger horses) in bad turf conditions. He’d look at what horses scratched and which trainers usually scratched and make different bets as the odds would be screwy and in his favor. He bought toys with his winnings, and his process was making him a decent buck, at least until he retired and we lost touch. If casino gambling hadn’t gone mainstream, there would be a lot of interesting activity in throughbred racing — now it’s a legacy backwater sport.