Originally Posted by
monet
Originally Posted by
Ex-AP
That is a grind.
The racetrack crowd is the world brought down to size, life grinding against death and losing.
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If you're going to try, go all the way.
Otherwise don't even start.
This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs, and maybe your mind.
It could mean not eating for three or four days.
It could mean freezing on a park bench.
It could mean jail. It could mean derision.
It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift.
All the others are a test of your endurance.
Of how much you really want to do it.
And you'll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds.
And it will be better than anything else you can imagine.
If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that.
You will be alone with the gods. And the nights will flame with fire.
You will ride life straight to perfect laughter.
It's the only good fight there is.
I have to admit that I got really lucky when I started in the AP world. Made a ton of good friends and met some of the smartest people in the business, PhD’s in Physics, Math, Comp Sci, etc and some of the best programmers you will meet.
Without these people teaching me the ropes, I would not have the success I have had for past 20+ years. We all started with Piggy Bankin’, Sigma Gaming’s beatable Poker games like Flush Attack or The Max, and then we got the IGT Vision Series games, etc. I didn’t have the bankroll for a Joker Wild VP progressive with a 2% meter movement where 5 of a Kind wins the progressive (roughly 11K hand cycle), could not afford to play $5 single line VP chasing a 101% or 102% play. But I tipped off my buddies and traded them for info or intel. What I didn’t realize I was good at finding plays rather than grinding them.
I had my up’s and down’s, droughts like losing over $64K over 2 months and that scared the sh*t out of me, and I remembered when I started getting swings of +/- $20K a week, that was a bit too much for me so I took some time off and had to rethink my game plan. This guy Mathboy from bj21 and TomSki’s TSI software gave me the insights to get my next level. I knew my comfort level and knew what games fit my strength. I wasn’t going to have a goal of Max EV or $EV per hour, I didn’t want to grind, and I hell wasn’t going to sit at a machines banging the buttons as fast as a damn monkey chasing the Must Hits.
I found my niche. I played games and opportunities that I was better than most APs. I found out the first month of a new bonus machine was huge ... say $10K a week or $10K a month. That’s where I made my money ... low risk, lots of plays and max information asymmetry. The second month was okay but by the third month, the play was over as the dregs of bonus hustlers started camping by the machines.
I still play a lot of promo’s because the casinos are too damn lazy to change their promo’s. They basically run the same promo’s for so many of my casinos so it’s very easy and steady money. When I got be 55, I got to hustle the 50+ & 55+ promo’s so that adds a thousand a month that I didn’t have before. Cha Ching!!! I was double & triple dipping in some casinos ... these casinos were practically giving money away.
I am not saying no to grinding, but no grinding for me. Like I said, I got really lucky meeting the right people and figuring out what works for me.