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    What was the longest time you spend in the blackjack table?

    What was the longest hour you spend playing blackjack? What I mean is playing in the table non-stop.
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    Nothing real lengthy: once entire 8pm - 4am shift at the Mirage, same seat, same table. Once 7pm - 4am at the GN in LV.
    High Limit area. I did take about 20 mins off to cash out and get some air. That was when I was younger...

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    12 straight hours spreading $5-$90 on a SD, S17, D10, LS game at a now-long-gone casino.

    The PC gave me the tap at 3 AM, but simply asked me to quit for the night as I was the only player in the whole pit, and thus was preventing them all from going home.

    Dog Hand

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    The other day, I went to a Mississippi casino. It had only 2 blackjack tables open and both were full, so I went next door to a new one. They had 6 deck with terrible penetration and a 2 deck with almost 50/50 penetration. I had driven a good bit to get there so I thought I'd just play a little. I didn't care if I got asked to leave so I started counting and betting a 30 spread from $5 to 2 X $ 75. I was wonging out on bad counts, taking a cigarette break at the start of a hand while sitting at the table counting. I was getting up to make phone calls on bad counts and doing everything I could to get a slight advantage. I played like that for 8 1/2 hours from 8 PM until 4:30AM and no one even glanced in my direction. Every once in a while a pit boss would walk over to the table to just chat because the place was so slow but never even glanced at me in an inquisitive manner. I finished the night down $ 10.00 and went to the cage to cash in my chips and passed back by the blackjack tables on my way out. Both pit bosses waved at me and thanked me for playing and asked me to come back. Of course I won't be returning because of the poor penetration but it was an interesting night.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bodarc View Post
    The other day, I went to a Mississippi casino. It had only 2 blackjack tables open and both were full, so I went next door to a new one. They had 6 deck with terrible penetration and a 2 deck with almost 50/50 penetration. I had driven a good bit to get there so I thought I'd just play a little. I didn't care if I got asked to leave so I started counting and betting a 30 spread from $5 to 2 X $ 75. I was wonging out on bad counts, taking a cigarette break at the start of a hand while sitting at the table counting. I was getting up to make phone calls on bad counts and doing everything I could to get a slight advantage. I played like that for 8 1/2 hours from 8 PM until 4:30AM and no one even glanced in my direction. Every once in a while a pit boss would walk over to the table to just chat because the place was so slow but never even glanced at me in an inquisitive manner. I finished the night down $ 10.00 and went to the cage to cash in my chips and passed back by the blackjack tables on my way out. Both pit bosses waved at me and thanked me for playing and asked me to come back. Of course I won't be returning because of the poor penetration but it was an interesting night.
    slight advantage? sounds like a monster advantage.
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    I did 25 hrs. once, and 24 hrs. numerous times.

    That was nearly 2 decades ago.

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    24 hours straight at a 24hr 2:1 blackjack promo at the IP in Biloxi.

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    I've done full shifts a few times.
    The Cash Cow.

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    A sunday from 10 am to 5 am of monday, the reason: heads up all night

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    Reading the replies I am wondering if your chips were piling up, how you could have remained so long, especially Bigplayer and Flash who I would think piled up a good stack.
    Pretty funny Moses. Did you mean paid off wife?
    Never had a long session, but might enjoy one with heat removed.

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    16 hours multiple times.

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    Nowhere near as long as the longest stretch at a Poker table.
    "I don't think outside the box; I think of what I can do with the box." - Henri Matisse

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    I've played 24 hours straight many times decades ago. More recently I played the Mohegan Sun Triple Down Promotion for the entire 24 hours. That was in July of 2010.

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