Originally Posted by Moses View Post
How many is large? How few is short? FWIW, I've been working on a 4 to 6 store rotation with 2 shifts for a few years. No more Gyard for me. 100 hands is considered a long session. 7 hands is the shortest. 20 sessions a week is all I need to get all I want.
I have anywhere from 30 to 3 dozen casinos in my rotation at any time. And those games are split into several levels. The best of them, I push the envelope and play 5-6 times a month, trying hard to mix up days and shifts. The next group I play 2-4 times a month and the final group, just once or twice a month. That final group is sort of the auxiliary group.

As much as filling out the rotation, I visit and play monthly just to keep track of the conditions (rules/penetration) and be sure they haven't improved, in which case I would move them up in the rotation. I also may need to move them up should another game in the rotation suddenly deteriorate, change rules or penetration for the worse, which occasionally happens. And sometimes if I suffer a backoff or two, or sense heat that I back myself off for a "cooling down" period, I may move one of these one-a-month games up temporarily. Particularly a backoff or heat situation involving on of the chain casinos. I may remove the entire chain, from my rotation for a month or so and need to fill out the rotation.

Originally Posted by Moses View Post
Speaking from experience, consider the game as a marathon and not a sprint. In the beginning winning was my only objective. But a win today, Play tomorrow approach puts far more dollars in your pocket as time goes on.
I hear ya. I refer to this as the shear vs slaughter dilemma. Maybe a better analogy would be milking vs slaughter.

I like to credit the many folks who I have learned from along my journey, when I can and to this note it was Stanford Wong who said something along the lines of learning to be a successful card counter is less about counting and putting the money out at the right time and more about learning how to be welcome to continue to do so. Bigplayer also said something along those lines, but it was Stanford that I read it first.

Like you, I very much dislike graveyard. I prefer day shift and have gotten lazy and try to work regular hours more than I should. But I do mix in other shifts, including several days (nights) of graveyard that I schedule each month.