By George C.
1D S17 DDAS LS RSA 13 playing cards cutoff
I performed this marvelous single deck sport for about 2 years in the Nineteen Seventies. Caesars motto again then was “we take on all comers“. They did place a restriction on me that I may solely unfold 1 to 4. In black enjoying 150 Hands per hour my expectation was round $600 an hour. I performed 20 hours per journey making 18 journeys per 12 months. So I had an expectation of $200K per 12 months. On virtually each journey that I made there was a man enjoying 2 arms of $100 as much as 3 arms of $3K.
Many journeys go by after which, on a visit I used to be horrified to see all 4D shoe video games. The primary pit nonetheless had 4 1D video games. I used to be relieved however just for a really brief time. One 1D sport was reserved and two had been $500 and $200 minimums. That left me with just one playable sport. I performed it however the sport was all the time crowded and play was painfully gradual thus knocking my expectation all the way down to lower than half of my normal win fee.
I couldn’t wait to get house to develop a technique that will restore my $600/hour anticipated win enjoying the 4D video games. Yep, that reserved desk was for my man.
I’m now house and my activity was to plan a system that will retain a $600/hour expectation enjoying the 4D shoe. Bankroll concerns would additionally come into play. At that point there have been three blackjack simulators that I used concurrently: Karel Janecek’s Statistical Blackjack Analyzer (SBA), John Imming’s Universal Blackjack Engine (UBE) and Stanford Wong’s Blackjack Count Analyzer (BCA).
I had a Mac laptop and it didn’t run PC software program. However there was a program known as Soft Windows that after I added it to my Mac it could run the software program. I ran a number of completely different methods three at a time. I attempted to get the outcomes all the way down to a typical error of three% however operating software program via an emulator was so terribly gradual. I believed my poor Mac was going to explode.
I lastly arrived at the following technique: Play two Hands spreading 1 to five in black chips. I needed to play 150 arms per hour with a deck or much less sealed from play. My threat virtually doubled from the 1D sport.
Lights digicam motion!
Caesars had 46 blackjack tables unfold over three pits. Subtract the 4 tables of 1D video games left me with 42 video games. This opened up some alternatives that I hadn’t simulated. Firstly, Caesars saved their wonderful guidelines and a few sellers solely sealed off 26 playing cards from play. Naturally I performed these sellers. Secondly, if a shoe was hopelessly in the homes favor, I might abandon it and begin a brand new sport. This offered me with much less threat and fewer rounds wanted to play to make my expectation.
They moved the aim posts once more
Now I used to be Wonging 6D video games with $500 chips. I obtained superior discover that Caesars went to 6D video games with a full 2 decks sealed off from play. Flat betting this sport required that I play 30 rounds per hour and solely after I had the edge.
I taught my brother Larry, my nephew Chris and a neighborhood Satellite Jack to trace the playing cards. They would establish the 6D sneakers that had been favorable to play and I might bounce in. This methodology additionally required an extra quantity of bankroll – primarily twice the quantity of the 4D video games.
Those 4 1D video games in the primary pit had been now 4D video games. And yep, there was my man enjoying 2 arms of $100 and now spreading as much as 3 arms of a number of $500 chips.
Day 2 of my Wonging journey introduced on some undesirable warmth. The bosses dispatched two guys to observe me wherever I went. They didn’t droop my play however merely adopted me wherever I went. My nephew Chris remembered these two: Domenick and hey Joey?
Even my man’s reserved desk was suspended. I might spot him enjoying the 6D sport in what would develop into the carnival pit in the future.
The lazy approach to Wong
I take my canine and pony present to Caesars in Lake Tahoe. Stanford Wong revealed blackjack video games and situations that existed throughout America. His newest report confirmed that Caesars Tahoe solely minimize one deck off the identical sport that Caesars Las Vegas dealt. This translated to an additional 0.4% of expectation.
With my nephew Chris in tow we arrange store. Here’s the way it labored. I used to be stationary most of the time solely enjoying after I had the edge. There had been tables to the proper and left of me with gamers. Chris would sit both to my left or proper relying on when there was a recent shuffle. When a shoe grew to become favorable I might transfer to that desk. Rinse and repeat. The bosses didn’t have a clue. A belated heartfelt because of my nephew Chris for his assist.
Ghost counting
On any given weekend, Caesars seemed like a card counter conference. So that is what I did. I might establish a number of benefit gamers and one after the other I might Wong in their video games. Since I used to be flat betting, all I wanted to know was that I had an edge. The thought is a modified model of a workforce shaped by Al Francesco (Frank Schipani) the place Ken Uston was the huge participant.
My man was Ian Andersen. We would develop into pals and would carry a long run correspondence. We even talked about writing a e book collectively nevertheless it by no means got here to fruition. All in all a enjoyable journey for a few years.
IMAGE CREDIT: Researchgate.net
IMAGE CREDIT: Caesars Palace Casino Las Vegas
BLOG MENU
