The one thing that I really like about Rob's strategy... and I think Arc will agree with this... is the idea about stopping when you hit a big winner. BUT as Arc and everyone else has pointed out... after that big winner do you really stop? If you come back to the casino the next week or the next month you haven't "stopped" have you?

So let's move to part #2 of Rob's strategy (as I understand it): you can have "a profit" within sessions even if you don't have a big winner and if you stop playing once you have that "profit" (however small it is) you can still come out ahead over the long run. And there are those who will disagree with that -- and they'll say there are sessions when you never have even a one-dollar profit and you just lose from the get-go. And yes, I have had sessions where I lost from the first play and never caught up, but I think there have been more sessions where at some point I had some kind of a profit -- even a tiny profit. Unfortunately, we only know about those "profit points" and "highest profit points" when we look in the rear view mirror. The machine's don't have a message screen that flash "you are at your high point, cash out now."