A bit of a tangent, but how does your record keeping and actual cash/chips balance? As in, do they balance, or do you sometimes (frequently?) have an over or under the amount of cash/chips than your records dictate? Not accusing you of anything, btw. Just wondering because somewhat often my cash and records don’t balance — it’s not ever by much, and usually because I forgot to record a tip, a cash expense, or something small like that. Plus, dealing with other people (receiving and transferring money is probably the biggest factor to non-balancing records).

I just can’t imagine doing that with chips, that would be a total nightmare. Unless you specifically go to a casino with, say, exactly $500 or $1,000 in chips (plus whatever cash), making it easier to balance. But keeping track of 50c or 25c pieces? Oof. Not for me! I just generally try to have the same amount in my wallet starting off a day, which makes it easier to balance at the end of a session or play.



Either way, being up $187.50 is a lot better than being down 5 or 10k. In a way, though, it doesn’t really matter, since it’s an arbitrary figure (since Jan 1 when it could be since Dec 1 or Jan 15). But yes, one of the sad truths to AP is even if you bust your ass and put in many hours, you’re not necessarily going to make money. At least in the short term. Do you track your EV as well as standard deviation? I know you’ve said before but I can’t remember (and to me, tracking that stuff is interesting to see how all the lines move on a graph, and seeing a seemingly “big loss” is not that big in the grand scheme of things).


Another tangent, but what the hell. What do you think you would do if overnight blackjack in Vegas went to 100% CSMs, 6:5, or anything else that’d make it completely uncountable? Would you travel to play BJ? Start machine play in Vegas? Move to other forms of table games AP? Some other type of AP? Retire from AP?