The casino expects u to lose. and im not losing lately at live 3-2 6 deck shoe BJ. According to the host, im up over $7000 in the last month or two. Including $500 today. I overheard the pit boss talking on the phone while at the table, (seems like they call up on the phone everytime my bets go way up) and him saying “i dont know why we cannot beat this guy”. “he just keeps winning”. “at least hes taking care of us”

they see me putting big bets out at times on new shoes (with a payback below 100%) since the count is still zero, they see me at times refusing to take insurance with a true count of plus 6, and at times raising my bets on negative counts. and of course, never ever splitting 2 tens. so they have no idea i know the exact count at all times. But it does let me play 16 vs 10 properly and i wonder how closely theyve noticed that?

also i wonder if theyve noticed the only times i quit the table or leave to use the restroom mid shoe are doing highly negative shoes?

or if the only times i bet 3 spots of $500 max bet are doing highly positive shoes?

they just see me martingaling bets, they see me going 2 hands of 20 to 3 spots of 500 and reducing most bets after a win. but on a positive shoe, im reducing it to 25 plus 25 instead of 1 spot of 10. and on a positive count, im going 20 plus 20 to 50 plus 50, 3 spots of 75, etc  instead of 10 to 11 to 22 to 22 plus 22 etc. But yeah, im raising bets, even on negative shoes. but at times if its too negative (over a true count of minus 1) ill back off entirely and flat bet 10 for a while, and then bet whatever i need to win back in 1 hand on the new shoe at the shuffle point. 

now we all know i usually lose at BJ because i play this way so i wont get banned at any more casinos for counting the cards. but in the last couple months, they claim im up over 7k on them. and said surely gravity will make u come back down. at least the host said that. 

and they see me put out $1 bets for the dealer a lot of times once i get up a few hundred. that too will make them think im not playing for a living. 

that is as long as the dealer isnt wearing a mask. im not giving money to some radical democrat out to send money to Biden or Fauci. but since i told them this, seems they make sure most of my dealers arent wearing masks ever since. 

early on today, i was up over $1200, then i ran into a little trouble when i lost a few hands during a good plus count, and on the final bet of 3 spots of $500 each, won a BJ on only 1 spot and lost both the other 2 spots, one with a double down. and then i was down $800-900. had it not been for the BJ on one spot, id been down over $2000. 

But that kept me from having too big a loss, and after playing a slot machine called winds of sails or some name similar to that, i seen it with the free games feature coin banking bonus of 59 free games for gold and 33 for silver and i dont know the game at all, but it was so much higher than on the 2 next to it and the other denominations i thought id see it. it was on the $1.50 a hand level. anyone know this game?

i was eventually in for $300 instead of $100 but it finally hit on the gold level (after twice earlier hitting much lower numbers on the bronze level) and it paid enough to let me cash out for $356, slightly reducing my loss for the day. 

then i played the 6-5 VBJ a little bit, and got up about $90 on it then started losing some hands, and needing to bet $192 but not wanting to on the 6-5 game, returned to the table which only had 1 player which is rare, but all the casinos are dead up here today. even tonights NL game broke before 11pm. very unusual. 

i made a bet of $192 divided among 3 spots on the first hand out of the shoe. and it won, including a couple of double downs. and the count remained at plus 3 but since thats the running count and not the true count, u really arent supposed to raise the bet at that count. 

but i left 2 hands of $20 out anyway instead of reducing it to the min of 1 spot of $10 which id have done on a poor count. and running count soon reached plus 9 making the true count more than plus 1. 

i then put out 3 spots totalling about $600 after first losing 2 bets for cover purposes, and won all 3 bets and was highly relieved. then continued to play for another hour, and eventually ended up 500 up for the day. i was supposed to double my bet up to about $500 total right before i quit but decided against it because i didnt want to risk being stuck again, and also the count had just went to minus 2 from plus 5. so instead i left and went to my room to take a nap woke up about 7pm and went to play poker. 

so im still sitting now at about $42,600. thats a lot better than the $26k i left houston with, but still far less than the $57k i had on my birthday in febraury of 2023.