[cashing the ticket]

The good thing it was in the play for fun mode. I was bored so I went to one of the books I have an account with and logged into the casino. I chose the play for fun mode on blackjack and was given a fake balance of 50,000.00 to start. In a matter of 25 min my balance was 48,000.00.

Now this is what I did:
I played 100.00 hand (never more, never less, except for double down and splits)
I played just as I would if it was real money (as much as possible)
I played what is suppossed to be the right blackjack strategy. I never hit against the dealers 3-6 ever when I was 12 or more. I split when necessary and doubled down when to my advantage. I honestly tried to act like this was my money. I have played like this before and taken hits on 18 and doubled down on 14 just for fun, but I took this serious. There was even the surrender option and I would use this when I had a 5 or 6 against the dealer 10 card.

I was just amazed at the number of times I would have 20 and the dealer would be showing a 5 and the hole was a 6 followed by a face card. I also only won 1 double down the whole session.

The obvious good news is this was play money. It is also good to see that the book does not change the way the software works for the play for fun and play for real mode. It did give me a honest look at how this works. I would suggest to anybody getting ready to play for real that they first try the for fun mode.

Anybody have similar experiences? I am NOT saying this book was cheating. I could have just had a long bad run or might not have been playing as good of strategy as I thought. This was actually a good experience for me as there has been many times that I have thought of playing some blackjack to waste some time. It appers that it is more a waste of money.