In two deck games you should be able to get down your 6 unit bets okay -- as long as you're not more than doubling your last wager. Here too, it's usually best to start off the top with 2 units. Then a 6 unit wager later in the deck won't look so huge. And if you finish up a deck with a top sized wager, you'd better yield a little on your edge and start off the next deck with a 3 unit bet for visibility purposes.

That's why analyzing a game before sitting down pays off. Chances are if you take the time to watch the game for a few minutes (especially a shoe game) you'll gain a great deal of important information about the composition of the deck or decks. You'll be able to intelligently decide whether or not the dealer is making the 23% to 32% break average, meaning the dealer should be busting about once every 2.3 to 3.2 hands out of ten hands played.

If the players at the table are playing as they should, you'll be able to casually track the amount of ten¬ value cards (ten, jack, queen, king, ace) coming out in ratio to all the other cards, and see if the dealer's up card continually is a ten value or a two through six value, which is beneficial for the players. Much valuable information can be had for the price of merely a few minutes of good observation, because in a shoe game a good or bad situation can last a while.