Originally Posted by Bob21 View Post
The church team operated for about 7 years with at times 20 to 30 members, but most the time it had more like 15 members and made about $4 million. This sounds impressive until you run the numbers. I did a rough calculation and this comes to about $20/hr, probably less if you include travel time and costs. This is supported by the movie, Holly Rollers, where they show team members celebrating in large numbers once they have "closed a bank". What do these checks look like? Only a couple thousand dollars, which is what I've made in a weekend, and I'm a red chipper. Obviously, this isn't every weekend.
You make it sound like you can make a couple thousand dollars quite often over a couple days of playing time at the red chip level. I'm also a red chipper and agree it can be done, but it sure doesn't happen very often which you seem to imply.

Both 2017 and 2018 were very good blackjack years for me, and most of my play was not on crowded weekends. However, when I go on a blackjack trip it is usually for more than one day and I play very long sessions over the length of the trip. So I decided to look at how many two days in a row were $2,000 or more in 2017 and 2018.

In 2018 there was only one consecutive 2 day period where I made over $2,000, and it was only for a little over $2,200. In 2018 I played on 44 days. In 2017 I played on a total of 31 days and again only one time where I made over $2,000 over a consecutive two day period. And in 2016 there was only one time over a two day period where I made almost $2,600, but that was in Wendover where some of that play was at the green chip level.

So Bob if you had good records I think you could see the times you made two thousand playing red chips on weekends are few and far between.