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Story of the Week: Dealer Knows I’m Counting!
by “tjnich04″ Ok, so I’m playing a DD game. I’ve been to this casino many times with no heat yet and have taken about 20k from these guys. Apparently they are low heat. So I’m playing with this dealer...
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Story of the Week: Called out by dealer in a subtle way…
by “mrwills” Was playing a final table last night…was doing pretty good and had about 4-5 shoes in a row that went up to TC6. New dealer comes in, she looks familiar from a different casino chain, but...
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Steve Bourie Podcast Interview
We recently hung out in Las Vegas with American Casino Guide creator, Steve Bourie. His son attended our Blackjack Bootcamp, and we wanted to sit down with Steve and discuss the American Casino Guide,...
View ArticleStory of the Week: What a ride it was
by “tjnich04″ So I thought that I had found a casino with zero heat. I was almost right. On a Friday night I go back to hit up their double deck like I had been doing over and over. I keep a chip...
View ArticleStory of the Week: Life after Bootcamp!
by “captain jack” So I managed to wait two weeks after attending bootcamp to take my learning to the real tables. During the two weeks I continued to focus on my weakest area’s as a fairly new counter,...
View ArticleThe Basic Strategy Song
Our staff writer, fellow card counter, and good friend, David, aka “Loudon Ofton,” wrote this song to help you memorize Basic Strategy. Heck, we just listen to it for fun! Here’s the video, then feel...
View ArticleStory of the Week: Being Invited to a $100,000 Tournament After Playing 1 1/2...
by “vincentchoi” I was in Vegas last week. Played at a $25 min table betting $50 to $200 hand. The Pboss asked if I have a Pcard; I said no. That I’m just passing thru … he went on to chat, asked where...
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Split Double Destroy [real-time dispatches from behind enemy lines]
The player next to me—as is often the case—was tipping the dealer tonight. I—as is always the case—was not. The dealer thanked Mr. Tips more noticeably each time for the table scraps coming his way,...
View ArticleStory of the Week: Logging in shorter sessions with new spread
by “BJAvengers” 2 weeks back the BR had officially become 3x what i had started with, so i hit CVCX and redid some calculations and came up with a spread i was comfortable with. The first time i tested...
View ArticleStory of the Week: With the forum being kind of quiet, I thought I’d share...
by “va_bj” While I really can’t share many of my current adventures, I surely can share this one from many years ago. Enjoy the long read. Back in my craps days, I was playing on a team where we...
View ArticleStory Of The Week: Heat? Or all in my head…
by hail2pitt Was playing tonight and it started off with an interesting feel. Wonged into a shoe and got change for blacks. Pit boss comes over and asks if I’m using a players card and I say no. He...
View ArticleStory Of The Week: Good time to bail?
by “tjnich04″ I was playing a shoe game with intentions on spreading up to 2×1000. I get to the casino, sit down, buy in for 1500 (actually colored down three purple) and put out 2×25. I’m playing with...
View ArticleStory Of The Week: THEY ARE ALWAYS WATCHING
by “tjnich04″ So I’m at my home casino, where I have been banned from playing blackjack but can play any other game, and I’m playing poker. Game is somewhat boring, so I take my phone out and start to...
View ArticleStory Of The Week: “Man, I’m getting no blackjacks tonight,” until…
by “hail2pitt” I was playing yesterday, and not really getting crushed, but as the count rose, the blackjacks fell to the other players while I’m getting 14-16 and busting all over the place. You know...
View ArticleStory Of The Week: The Lengthy Backoff
by “Levimich” There’s a small casino in the absolute middle of nowhere that I started frequenting once every week or two, about 4.5 hours away. One day I drove 3.5 hours to a casino to play and was met...
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Casino411 and The Time Ben Stole from the Team
Here’s a podcast of the changes we recently made to Casino411, as well as a discussion about the time Ben stole money during our first blackjack team. Right Click to Download Podcast....
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Story of the Week: First backoff…sort of
by “BJAvengers” This past weekend I was out of town where they had a very nice game…it was $25 min…so this would be my first time playing at a green chip table…but CVCX showed I could play with a...
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Ex-Casino Dealers Reveal: With These 5 Ways Casinos Trick You Into Losing
By David “Loudon Ofton” Drury When you push your money into the blackjack circle and faced off against a dealer, you are playing the best odds in the house. You can even turn the advantage to your...
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Story Of The Week: Take that you scoundrels!
by “PokerPro04″ Let me set the scene… This casino (W) used to have a double deck game, H17 50%pen but with surrender. Heat here is about as low as heat can be. Their shoe games are 8D S17 DAS Sur about...
View ArticleStory Of The Week: This story sounds so familiar…
by “va_bj” So here’s the story (believe it or not, different than what I posted earlier). I’m out with the family at a casino. Mainly there for them to play slots. But I just can’t sit in front of...
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