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Originally Posted by Barefootsies
True dat. Quick example for you.
When I first started playing, and even now I see it to some degree, the "rules" change depending on who you are sitting with. If you play 5 days, with 5 different groups of people, they will all have 'tips' and they will all be different.
The most common one's I come across are as follows....
1. Always hit on a 12/13 against a 2/3
2. Always hit on a soft anything, regardless of what the dealer is showing.
3. Always double down on an 11, even against a FACE or ACE.
Those are just a few of the most common one's I hear almost daily. This does not even get into the splits, and some of the other crazy shit I have seen. Like standing on a 12-15 against a FACE, or double down on a hard 17.
What I love is the classic blame game that happens when some are losing. Take the hit on a soft/whatever. You took the bust card. Do not take it, and you should have. Same for hitting/standing the 2/12 thing. It is endless. So you are always going to lose the 'public relations' game.
One of the absolute most frustrating thing for me is, people who do not play their cards and every hand are hoping for a bust. Or claim, he hasn't busted in awhile, and is due, and so on. They play defensive, and lose hand after hand, and keep talking about the bust instead of playing the game right. Typically fucking up the whole table.
I simply get up and move after I see it a few hands. Same for those who hit one time on a 15/16, and the next time don't. Either hit it always, or never hit it.
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1. Always hit on a 12/13 against a 2/3
3. Always double down on an 11, even against a FACE or ACE.
Those are right out the book I believe.
My gut always told me if everyone is on the book (and almost all are or the one smart guy will let you know
hehe) that you need to shake it up on your own vibe to be succesful. If you go along with the crowd and play the exact book out of Hoyles paperback or whatever, that you'll prob lose like all the rest.
--Fun gambling story
I use to play the old roulette system (which I thought only I knew) of always doubling your bet until you win. As the odds with black/red are almost 50/50 (which is why small indian casinos set the cap at $500) so if you bet $2 on black and lose you then bet $3 on say red, if you win you made 1$ if you lose you bet $6, if you win you make $1 and so on. In indian casinos you can play this about 12 hand until you are stretched out..
Actually this is not that old of method invented I think in the last 100 years, anyhow I thought I had a system. after all what are the odds of inessence losing a coin toss 12 times in a row which is what I must do not to get that $1 profit. (then restart the sequence again)
Well you guessed it. I did ok for a while made a couple hundred then the odds got me. I amazingly lost 12 straight! hehe
That was the end of that system