Originally Posted by AxelWolf View Post
If you're playing solo, keeping track/doing your accounting has nothing to do with your advantage, or the math of the game. Knowing how you're doing compared to expectation is meaningless, unless you think you're being cheated,
Well looking to see if you are being cheated is part of it. But only a small part. Spreading your play around 30 casinos, plus some out of town play, you aren't going to come close to having a large enough sample size at any one place to definitively prove anything about cheating. Not in any single year. Maybe over a number of years.


But really the reason I keep detailed record is because I want to know just how far below or above expectation I am running for the year. Especially as you get towards the end of the year with a larger sample size. And no it doesn't change anything, but I just like to know.

Not currently, but most of my first dozen years in Vegas, most years by years end were pretty close to expectation. I played 80-100 thousand rounds a year and that was enough that most years were pretty close. But even more than that if you expand out a little and take results for any 2 or 3 year period and compare to expectation, it was amazingly close.

And while that doesn't change anything, it is just sort of confirmation, or re-affirmation, that the math work. Even 20+ years in, there are times I go on a pretty good losing period for weeks and months, and despite 20+ years of doing this, You start to say what the fuck!!?? Then I look at my longer term numbers and it just sort of re-affirms that everything is working just the way the math says it should. Just a little variance. The math doesn't lie.

So no doesn't change anything, but it helps me.