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    Day Twenty play

    Heavy action. Four shoes � 1500 average bet I was told. I was down as much as 26,000 at one point. Exactly at the end of the fourth shoe I was 1500 ahead, or so I thought, so I threw in all the chips to pay the markers, all $50K I had pulled (first $20K, then $30K). It turned out that I was short 1000 in what I threw in, so actually, I wound up a measly 500 ahead, but that�s still much better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

    I took it, and walked. Ahead again!
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    Day Twenty-One play

    Pulled $8000. only. One shoe, won $5200., and walked. Easy play.

    This one guy walked up and watched for a bit then plopped down $20,000. on one hand, bank. He asked me to open. I opened a seven, player had natural nine. We lost � he $20K, but I had put only $300. on that hand. He should have noticed that I lowered my bet on that hand.

    After he left I kept winning steadily.

    At the end of the shoe, looking back, sadly (for him), that ONE hand he lost for twenty was the one extreme deviation in the shoe. The rest of the shoe was relatively easy.

    The big player seems to have disappeared. He didn�t answer my text yesterday and his reserved table has been closed down. I fear the worst. He definitely lost, this much I heard, but how much � I couldn�t say.
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    Day Twenty-Two play

    Things got a little dicey � I got down to just a small stack of yellows, and I was down forty K or so. I caught a CHOP, B-P-B-P starting with 1000 and pressed a thousand at a time all the way to 6000, but chickened out on the next one, which I won, for only 3000, and then lowered to � would you believe it � 500, then 200. But still, I wound up an even 2200 ahead, and called it a day.
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    Four shoes � 1500 average. Good for comps anyway.
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    Day Twenty-three play

    Pulled an 8K marker, actually got about 3500 ahead at the peak. Then made the mistake of continuing to play, next thing you know I had lost it all. The losing started when this idiot came to the table making measly 100 bets declaring that he knew what was going to happen. Of course � he didn�t, and he threw me off by betting against us, which we had been playing in unison.

    Luckily, he ran out of money and once he left I kept winning. Three girls settled on my table and we kept winning and winning in unison. The pit boss even commented, �Look at ____, he has all the girls around him!� (All the other tables had men only - all the females had flocked to my side.)

    I went from -12K to +3K with EASE. By the time the other pit boss, the one who had issued my second $20K market I had pulled came around and asked if I had paid back both markers already, I was so full of myself that I couldn�t help but say, �Of course.�

    The joke of the day was � who cut this shoe? ME! because it was an incredible shoe, where there was ALWAYS a second bank or player in each row, I mean without fail, and the runs were happening like crazy. I really should have cleared 10X more than I did, but I was having such a good time that I forget to bet big.

    A good time was had by all, and everyone at my table (once that hundred dollar loser left), won.
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    Day Twenty-four play

    We had to spend part of the day moving from one suite to another. Apparently there is a limit to how long one may stay in a Nevada hotel room � and we were coming up on it! We moved to an identical 1300 square foot suite one floor below.

    Today I played just two shoes � partials at two different tables. The first had a $500. minimum and this somehow threw me off. I dumped eight grand just like that, then won it back, almost as quickly. I moved to a $300. minimum table where the pit boss didn�t care what we bet as long as it was over $100., and quit at 3200 ahead.

    Nice!

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    Day Twenty-five play

    Won 5200. I actually dumped 8K first, then pulled another twenty, and got back to even relatively quickly, but had difficulty getting ahead. Finally towards the end of a shoe I played a chop and quit at the end of the shoe as I was sufficiently ahead.

    When I placed my larger bets � up to 4 or 5K, the pit boss remarked, �Look at ____. Every time he places one of his big bets 99% that he is going to win � and he does win!�

    I went over my play with the host � 71 hours this trip this resort at an average bet of $1200. �If I were to play, how would you suggest I do it, to win?�

    I actually suggested that he not play. �If I lived here, I would not gamble, I never gamble at home either. When would you stop?�

    �Anyway,� the host remarked. �You�re pretty much my only consistently winning player. The rest of them don�t seem to care � as long as they get comp�ed, they just keep coming back.� He told me that most of his players are high end slots players, and that they almost never win. "And then I have some players who play both table games and slots, and when they do win at table games, they just go dump it all in slot machines."
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    Day Twenty-six play

    Every day seems the same lately. I win! Didn�t need to go past the 8K marker today and I took home 4400.
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    Day Twenty-seven play

    Pulled an 8K marker. A little trouble at first, a couple of larger catch up bets that I won � then hit a 13 bank run, which I thankfully got on after the first few. Ended the shoe a clean 4K ahead � quit.

    Today was really easy, I had a shoe with a 13 bank run. I got on it a bit late - on hand four - but I stayed on it after that to the end. What's interesting is that give me a 13 bank run when I am down a fair amount and trying to catch up and I might win, easily, twenty, thirty grand (these days, the way I play), and even a hundred grand, or more (the way I used to play, harder, in the old days). Give me a thirteen bank run when I am just a little down for the session such as today, or not down at all, and I'll make only say five or six grand on the run. In other words - my biggest wins come from behind, because that is when I might be more inclined to press harder as I start winning, to catch up.

    On this run I actually reversed my press after about four or five (winning) hands because I didn't think it would keep going, and by then I was back to even. But I stayed on the bank to the end. Just - sometimes - your luck and your determination to win coincide with a run, and those are the times that the tray empties. Was not the case today, but nevertheless, an easy 4K net win on one shoe.
    The pit boss pointed out that he was impressed that I got on the bank run and stayed on it even after missing the first few hands. "Most people would have just free-handed it after that and then been afraid that it was going to end, and stayed out entirely." Not me, give me any run (or chop, or any discernible pattern really) of four or more and I always make money on it.

    Wow I just got a call from the cage. Seems that yesterday when I cashed my checks 4425, I was shorted 400. I had just stuffed what I assumed was 4400 into the winner�s envelope without counting it.

    I went downstairs and the supervisor had me sign a couple of forms, handed over the 400 and apologized. I asked how they knew, �Was the cashier�s drawer off?� Yes. That was exactly it. But how they went from realizing the drawer was over by four hundred, to determining that I was the one shorted, I couldn�t say. When I got back up to the suite I re-counted the winner�s envelope and � sure enough � it was short four hunny!
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    Day Twenty-eight play

    Two shoes / left +4500. With eeeease.

    I mean come on. Is there a better natural high (other than sex I mean, which trust me, is on the agenda right now with the wife), than winning in Vegas while being comp'ed in a huge suite? It's all free this week kid, I'll let you know when your time's up. I would hope - never!

    P.S. Sadly, this one poor guy came up and had the temerity to bet against me most every hand. He lost his shirt, I mean everything, and he induced me to bet less. If the loser hadn't shown up I might've won double or more. A divided table doesn't usually win, but in this case, I ignored him completely. I mean the shoe was 4 player / 4 bank / 4 player / 4 bank at its best, during the hands that he lost - what more of a roadmap did the guy want??
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    Day Twenty-nine play 11/22/2020

    Today, I won $18,000. One of my better sessions this trip. I played one shoe, cut by the pit boss before I got there, and netted 3500. Would you believe I was getting ready to call it a day? That 3500 took me to about fifty five grand ahead, and for about a week now my goal has been fifty ahead, so I considered quitting.

    Then I cut my OWN shoe and not so far into the shoe I started practically screaming - bank goes one, ALWAYS back to player. I mean it was unbelievable, NO deviation, to the VERY end. The dealer kept saying put ten thousand. The pit boss was cheering, All In player! I ended up putting just 1800 on each such hand PLUS another hundred on the side for dealers, and we won Every. Single. Hand. I mean it was one of the crazier things I had ever seen. Better than a run. I've had shoes where it won't go past two, I've had runs, I've had chops, but this "bank goes one, always back to player" was something else. I really had a good time. Looking back I could have emptied the tray, but, that's not my goal (although today, I wish it had been). Still, eighteen grand in one quick session is nothing to scoff at.

    We are going to leave town tomorrow, so this is it. The sum total of cash plus chips for the winner comes to $73,600. and I am SURE I have tipped out over ten grand during the course of the past seven weeks, so probably the casinos have me down winning even more.
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