backoffs, baring and play restrictions

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You can make good money counting by traveling the country playing a hit and run style. Not spending to much time in each casino. There are guys on the road consistently making mid 6 figures without problems.

Seedvalue, are you really talking about now, present day, or are you going back a few years?

I knew some players playing doing this 8,10,12 years ago. Travel the country playing higher stakes for a year or two until you burn out everywhere. You could make 400, 500, 600K before you were done, depending on how long you lasted a year, 18 months. It was basically what KC did in the documentary inside the edge. It was often debated on forums as milking vs slaughtering or shearing vs slaughtering. You get the analogy.

But I don't know anyone doing this now. You just can't outrun the technology. I had two different cases of losing that race myself. One when I was backed off at Valley Forge on one of my East Coast trip about 5 years ago. I actually was a dick and fucked with them figuring I wouldn't be back to that small sweaty dump. THAT was a stupid move. 2 or 3 days later when returning back to Vegas I was immediately backed off two of my regular locations. You Can't outrun technology and electronic transferred information.

A very similar incident a year or two later, when I was backed off in Reno. I returned to Vegas a couple days later and was backed off one of my regular spots. Then that night I got a call from my pit friend, who advised me I had a brand new entry in the database. I said "yeah, I figured".

So I just don't know anyone still doing that whole rome the country playing high stakes for as long as you can thing anymore. If you want to achieve longevity with card counting I really think it is about figuring what stakes you can play without rocking the boat too much, plus lots of other subtle little things you can do to make your play more tolerable. Of course there is a ceiling to playing like that, 80-100k. And that is probably why there are so few pure card counters left. They have moved on to other more lucrative things.

Yes currently as in this year and every year. When I say hit the road I’m talking multiple months, and states at a time. Most Guys idea of a road trip is a weekend flight to an area with 3 or 4 casinos. This can be profitable as well, but there are still road warriors out here making good money only counting. Staying in one town for 15 years well that’s just not real life

Regarding VF I had a play worth 5 to 6 k week there that I ran for over three years pre to post pandemic. Easy money that I set up on auto pay with a local that I would chop with. I only had to go out there a few times a year to keep things rolling. After the pandemic many idiots showed up there and the surrounding casinos coinciding with the opening of Philly live. Everything went straight down hill. All the Biden bros with their stimi checks playing AP ruined many good plays