Originally Posted by
MisterV
Good plan, KJ.
Money is only one facet of life: if you have enoiugh then the prospect of "more" shouldn't be too compelling.
Besides, these trolls are a desperate, conniving, lying bunch and their word is NOT to be trusted: they only want to hurt you.
MrV, I have and make enough money to live comfortably by my standards. If it ended today, I am not ready financially to retire, so no I am not set or have enough money.
But it isn't all about money for me either. Never has been. I have always had the ability to play higher stakes and make more money. Lots of guys went that route. And most make more money for a year or two and end up writing books or running 'bootcamps'. I loved the inside the edge documentary that KC did. But it lasted a year and after finishing well below his high he made 600k.
I chose longevity and came up with a plan for longevity making a comfortable amount. I am 14 years in and still going.
But again, I chose what I do and don't do. I am not one of those guys that thinks advantage play means you can do anything, legal or not, ethical or not. I have different standards. I shared one example of this years ago, when I quit hole-carding after several months. I was setting my alarm for 3am, to get to a casino at 4am to play with a dealer that was pretty blatantly exposing his hole card. Absolutely nothing illegal about hole-carding. But it clicked for me, that was not the way I wanted to win or make money. I wanted to play my game, blackjack completely by the rules the casino had established and win, using my brain. THAT is my standard of advantage play.
I don't hold it against any other player that chooses to do things I would not do or not be comfortable doing. This industry cheats and steals every chance they get. So they deserve whatever other players do. I just have my own standards of what I am comfortable with.
So yes, MrV, you are right money isn't everything...at least to me.