Originally Posted by LarryS View Post
So there is a limit that you hold yourself to, although its not a strict to the penny limit.
You may not quit for the reason "its a bad day"(which I can see because cards have no sense of time or sun or moon)...but you quit when you think you have lost enough.You may not quit for the voodoo reasons of "bad day or bad luck day, or its not my day".....but you do quit when you feel you have lost enough money.
Be honest....you won about 8800 the previous days of 2018.....when you lost it all back....didnt that enter into your decision...."I lost back all my winning , I am going to stop". You could have gone to the ATM. But you chose not to. So other than being tired.....there has to be other factors that stop you. Like....I lost enough

I think you did say that you sometimes say that you won enough in one place so you dont draw attention. So dont you also llimityourlosses some way. Even if its not preplanned and you just say "enough losses today". I am not talking about stopping after a small loss, or a few small losses and being that fragile. I am saying, packing it in because you simply dont want to dip in deeper to your bankroll.

If you just gamble the money you carry....and have a limit on how much you can take out of an atm daily.....that in a way is a loss limit.
That's mostly correct. I didn't even want to mention this because I know Alan or someone else why say. "well you do have a stop limit". No I don't!

A stop limit as described by Alan is saying I don't want to loss more than $2000 or $4000 (or whatever number) today. That is NOT what I am doing. I have a minimum amount that I need to feel comfortable staring a session. It's different for 6 deck vs double deck ovbioulsy (few rounds, so less funds needed).

One of the worse things a card counter can do I finally get to a juicy positive count (strong player advantage) and not have enough funds to play. Yikes! They don't hold the game (at my level) while you hit the ATM. So if my funds on hand drop below what I think is adequate to start a new session, I need to replenish. And if it is late in the day, just quitting rather than running to the bank or ATM for one more session is an option. But that is very different than the stop limits Alan is talking about.