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online blackjack feels rigged, anyone else notice weird patterns?

Lately I've noticed a lot more "streaks" in online blackjack than I ever see in live games, like getting five or six hands in a row where the dealer somehow pulls 21 no matter what I have. It makes me start second-guessing if it’s just variance, or if something sketchy is going on under the hood. I know shuffling algorithms are supposed to simulate randomness, but some of these runs are wild - statistically rare but not impossible.

Anyone else tracking outcomes or patterns in their online play? I'm thinking about keeping a spreadsheet for a few hundred hands to see if the probabilities line up with expectations.

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logging every tilt trigger matters more

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I’ve kept play logs before and noticed my biggest tilt losses usually happened after chasing streaks, not during them. Spreadsheeting’s solid but treating discipline as your long-term edge matters more, same way I budget on a bad sports betting run.

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Even spreadsheets miss the mental trap of chasing a big rebound. In roulette too, I learned to log how often I ignored my own stop lines.

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