Dummy, you have stated in the past that you often quickly make your session goal and that you are content and not greedy and leave before anyone has a chance to get a good look at your game. Sounds good but let's examine a little further. Say for example last month you played a total of 30 hours "mostly Spanish21" and you averaged $250 an hour win for a total of $7500. In that same month let's say your next door neighbor made $3000 in the same month working 200 hours at $15 an hour at McDonald's. On the surface, it looks like a really poor comparison but we are leaving out the all-important internet time. The neighbor already knows how to do his job and has no need or desire to tell anyone how he does it, so let's give him zero added time.
As for yourself, you like to state that your internet time is your free time but is it actually free time or an obsession? Again in the example, you put in 360 hours, or 12 hours a day for the month "I am being kind" not out of the realm of a possibility. Considering the desire you have to debate and prove others wrong, and always including how good you are. Adding in 30 hours of playing time you have 390 hours. Final tally comes out to $19.23 cents an hour. Of course, your fringe "free" benefits are far greater than the neighbor considering everyone loves you and you are always welcome back. As your only concern is lifetime backoffs for accumulated wins that are far greater than others backed off for the same reason in the same store.
Bosox writes:
Moses replies: Interesting post Bosox. I am going to answer what I do and perhaps you can compare if you believe his claims are realistic or not. Noteworthy endeavor for a logical thinker such as you. My goal is to play 20 sessions per week. It's all I want to play because I believe maintaining a proper balance in life is more important than chasing EV. Plus I keep on eye on the stock market everyday. Therefore, reducing variance is also very important. Hence, the less bad hands I play the better. So game selection is key as I'm in control. Without going into too much detail, my game selection is more strict on Monday that it is on Friday. Somedays I don't play at all for various reasons.
A session can be as many as a 100 hands or as few as 8 hands (very rare.) A win or loss are exit points or ties. Casino Tolerance to the upside is the win goal and thus must be the exit point for the downside. A tie goes the 100ish hand duration without either hitting the upside or the downside. Or the game is interrupted which no longer makes it a topnotch selection. The goal is to win 60% of the sessions per week. Of course that comes with losing and some ties of 40%.
Now, my day doesn't just end at the casino. It's not the safest place to be hanging out so a get in, get paid, get out approach is crucial. But it sure leaves a lot of free time on ones hands. I wish I could tell you there are shortcuts to success in this game. I have the knowledge but not the tools to make them happen. So it comes down to hard work to find my true advantages. To hell with thresholds. Therefore, I'm in practice probably ten times more than actual playing time. My internet time is a break from the practice sessions. Unlike most, I don't worry a whole helluva lot about how much I make per hour, per day, year etc. I watch one figure and that's my bank account. If it's going up? That's a good thing. If not, that's a bad thing and needs to be rectified. But it seems all my bills are paid and there is money to go on vacation and do pretty much whatever I want. But I play to go on vacation as opposed to the worriers over profit than go on vacation to play.
The internet being an obsession? Possibly. But what else is there to do? I keep thinking I will read something profound that will help my game. But that is very rare. So I just enjoy the many personalities that come and go. BJTF is laughable because so many are trying to be the smartest guy on the forum. But many of their claims simply cannot be done or is very difficult to perform in a single deck...much less a shoe. The latest thread about the guy stacking his chips to gain an advantage? That will last about 10 minutes in a casino. Hmmm, so he wrote a book? I wonder why. And now everyone thinks he's brilliant? A sucker is born every minute.
Congrat's to you Bosox for always 'keeping the cheese on your cracker." I noticed you didn't even bother to comment in that thread.
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