Do you envision me and Scotth grinding away everyday just to make ends meat year after year sacrificing and living a frugile lifestyle forced to keep playing into our 80's?
No. You're both smart guys, you'll smarten up long before that.
Do you envision us working long hours, doomed into male prostitution to pay rent, resorting to hobo gimmiks in front of casino management to avoid heat, cutting cupons, dumpster diving, chasing losses, living a lonely anti-social life, suffering poor health from the stereotypical gamber lifestyle but no health insurance to get healthy?
Yes! All of the greats have done this at some time or another,
better players than me, and better players than you. Read Clarke Cant's
Blackjack Therapy essay. He talks about playing coupons, getting your clothes from thrift shops, and finding spare change on the streets. He wrote this back when there was still single deck and 99 cent buffets in Vegas. Then read the rest of the essay and tell me you think you know more about BJ than him.
Do you imagine us as a couple of stupid, spoiled, delusional, ignorant, 20 year olds who have been sheltered our whole lives?
No. You're not at all stupid.
Well you're wrong. I don't plan on working past my 20's. This is a get rich quick scheme ok. Eveyone says that it's not, but it is. I'm going to get rich and I'm going to get rich quick.
You won't do it in a casino. You get rich over years to decades of hard work (both at the table and at your computer) and ethical treatment of all you encounter in the business.
You guys and your negativity. There was some quote somewhere that I don't remember:
What your mind can concieve, you can believe, you can achieve or something.
Yeah I saw that quote! It was on a poster on a wall at a telemarking outfit I worked at in college, for $5 an hour. The truth is, good ideas are cheap. It's implementation that's the key, and implementation is hard work.
You know when there is a will there is a way. I don't care if blackjack vanishes off the face of the earth today. Eveything happends for a reason and that reason is always self serving. So CSM's will turn my focus to other money making methods where I will get rich even faster. But since it hasn't happened yet, I know that this is the best path for me.
Don't worry about CSM's. Worry about the things you can't conceive of. Worry about someone reaching under the toilet stall whilst you sit relieving yourself and relieving you of half your bankroll. Worry about getting framed up or set up for some crime and having to hand your bankroll over to a criminal defense lawyer.
And worry about variance. What is going to happen when you hit 2 SD of bad variance? You know what a SD is, you know how likely you are to experience this.