[jba]

yeah you are a textbook case then. just drill a lot, get some software (casino verite is what I've used and it's fine). get the count down hard so you can do it quickly and easily and without a lot of thought.

if you have young friends or a girlfriend who can play with you that will help a ton. I assume you are young? how "geeky" do you look? if you're betting with black chips in a 2 deck game don't stay in one place more than about 30-45 minutes, heads up always if possible. if you're outside of the strip area make that green chips. try to alternate shifts. so you're not seeing the same people all the time. rathole as much as possible, but be super aware that places keep really close track of chips and it's better to be a known winner than a known ratholer. never go south with 500 chips or bigger and be careful with blacks unless there's another good reason for it to come up missing (like another player just walked off with a bunch of blacks that weren't part of a color up). if you go south with 3 blacks when the place is dead they will know it. never decrease your bet after a win regardless of the count. try very hard not to go from a bunch of units to 1 because of a shuffle. sometimes start with >1 unit off the top and decrease on the next hand.

bj21 is good, get the green chip membership and read a bunch of the archives, there's a lot of stuff in there.