I'll break down the process. It starts with the order in which new cards are packaged. When a dealer opens a table or new cards are brought in to a table, the dealer opens the boxes and spreads the new cards out and employs a WASH which is nothing more than a circular motioned mixing of the cards. Actually the cards don't get mixed up much at all. After the wash, the dealer will shuffle the cards and begin to deal. Now, for purpose of illustration, visualize (7) players at the table. And all or most of those players will be straight basic strategy players. This is where basic strategy and the manner in which the dealer picks up the players' cards becomes an element involved in the card clump manufacturing process. The players hit their stiffs and get a high card and break. The dealer then picks up the player's cards, in break card clump segments and places them in the discard holder.
To make matters worse, when several players and the dealer all have two card (20) pushes, which are nothing more than wasted tens, all those tens are scooped up by the dealer and placed together in the discard holder in a clump of high cards. This process keeps perpetuating itself from shoe to shoe and the end result is overly clumped shoes. The insufficient shuffling techniques inhibit card movement, therefore, randomness is tampered with. And we need randomness for successful basic strategy card play. That is why full tables seldom create favorable player conditions. The more decks used, the fuller the table, straight basic strategy card play and the insufficient shuffling techniques, all stack the cards against you the player. So, how do we overcome the problem or should I say how do we, use the casino advantage against them? The answer is flexible strategy card play; not strict basic strategy card play. In effect, if you can take an advantage away from the casino, then you are creating an advantage for yourself. That doesn't mean that you should become cocky and develop an infallible attitude.
The manual teaches you to respect situations where your advantage is not working, especially, when a dealer is just too strong. However, our table departure criteria protects us from over staying poor games. Now please don't get me wrong. Just because we may have to deviate from basic strategy on many occasions doesn't mean that we will completely disregard basic strategy.
How many times have you seen this situation ...
The dealer shows the low up card and the players double and stand on their stiffs and ultimately the dealer ends up pulling a 5 card 21 and whacks everyone at the table.
Keep in mind that the casinos allow the double down and split options for a reason. This is a very frustrating situation for the players. We show the player when to make QUALITY double - downs and when not to double. Advanced card play knowledge arms the player with skills that can negotiate the less desirable tables where basic strategy appears to be fruitless.
Anyone who has been playing for awhile recognizes that the shoe game seems far more difficult over the last several years. Dealers appear to win more than their fair share of the hands with uncanny luck. Actually, luck has nothing to do with it. The game has changed radically. Beating it requires a radically changed playing method that corresponds to, and addresses, those game changes. The basis of the casino's new Blackjack game is non-random cards. One of the successes of our method is capitalizing on non-random cards. We fight fire with fire. We fight Blackjack with PRECISION BLACKJACK.
IF BOTH DEALERS AND PLAYERS BREAK LESS, THE CHANCE THAT THEY WILL BOTH BREAK ON THE SAME HAND IS GREATLY REDUCED. That's the secret of PRECISION BLACKJACK. It's not an opinion. It is a pure and simple mathematical fact. This fact greatly reduces the house odds and gives the edge to the player, IF HE KNOWS HOW TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT. IS BASIC STRATEGY WRONG ? OH MY GOD HOW COULD ALL THOSE BOOKS BE WRONG??? ARE THE CASINOS BROKE? WHY DO THEY OFFER FREE BASIC STRATEGY LESSONS IN THE CASINOS? ARE THEY TRAINING YOU TO BEAT THEM? OR ARE THEY TRAINING YOU TO BEAT YOURSELF ??? That is precisely what I am saying. I do not ask you to take my word for this. Solid proof is in the manual.
WHY DO MOST PLAYERS LOSE?
Let's look at how the game was designed. The closest to 21 wins. Since that is true for both dealer and player, the design was for both to win half the hands. That makes it even. But, we had to have a house advantage so the casino could make a living. We said, O.K., when you both break, the dealer wins. For the moment, let's forget all of the other rules, since they all favor the player.
By design, we should win half of the hands and the casino's only advantage should be the "break-push" rule. Now, I want you to think about the last game you lost. Did you lose because of the break-push rule? Think about it. No. You lost because the dealer won more hands than you, didn't she? The break-push rule didn't have much to do with it, did it? Now think about this: How could you lose more than half the hands when the object for you is exactly the same as it is for the dealer? And, you are allowed to play your cards any way you please while the dealer must play her cards one way and one way only. THINK about it How could you lose? It's not the rules that beat you, is it? It's not the game that beat you, is it? It isn't luck, is it? Believing in luck is like believing in leprechauns. There is only one thing left, isn't there? YOU LOST BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T ALTER YOUR CARD PLAY DURING AREAS WHERE BASIC STRATEGY CARD PLAY FAILED. Sorry to be so blunt, but it takes a little force to overcome the mind set you have been subjected to.