Million Dollar bankroll

[ccibball50]

For sake of a discussion lets say you could only play BJ with this million dollars. How do you think you would play to insure your longevity? Play a large unit with a very small advantage or play with a smaller unit but play with an bigger advantage. Play a 1k unit but only aim to make .1 units/ hour or play with a 100 dollar unit and try and make 1 unit an hour?

Me personally, I would search out the best SD games and learn Zen or Mentor with all the indexes and then play a little 2-1 bet spread where the 2 is the table max. If you play properly you can get a 1% advantage with low heat at the right tables.

 

[Kasi]

You are correct Kasi if you are assuming no heat. However in real life there is no way you would even come close to getting away with making 1 unit an hour with a 1000 dollar unit without a team. I don't know much about this but I am sure some of the members on here could attest to this but is it even possible to make 1 unit an hour with a 100 dollar unit and not get the swift boot?

With a 1000 dollar unit couldn't you technically play a 1-6 spread or something on a shoe game to make .1 units an hour? It doesnt look like much but I think most people would take 100$ an hour any day.

Well, I see what you are saying. I'm just trying to say if you spread 1-6 with a $1K unit and want to make $100/hr vs spreading 1-6 with a $100 unit and wanting to make $100 per hour, in the same game, you will make the same units per hand regardless.

If you want to play 100 hands with a $1000 unit vs 100 hands with a $100 unit, something would have to change to make the same $100 in 100 hands. You can't change how many units you will win in a hand in the same game betting the same way etc. You will make units-per-hand*number of hands played regardless of $ unit size. It will only change the $ amount won, not the unit amount won.

Hey, those whales fly in with a cashier's check for $1MM and maybe they just assume you have more money than brains lol.

 

[1357111317]

I am just talking about adopting a different spread. Like using a 1-6 spread with a 1000$ on a good 6D game would probably be around .1 units an hour no? Because even with a 1000 dollar unit you might be able to get away with counting if you only spread 1-6. Whereas if you spread 1-12 with a bit of wonging you could probably get away with a a 1-12 spread or something which could pobably make you 1 unit an hour on a good 6D game.

 

[Kasi]

I am just talking about adopting a different spread. Like using a 1-6 spread with a 1000$ on a good 6D game would probably be around .1 units an hour no? Because even with a 1000 dollar unit you might be able to get away with counting if you only spread 1-6. Whereas if you spread 1-12 with a bit of wonging you could probably get away with a a 1-12 spread or something which could pobably make you 1 unit an hour on a good 6D game.

Well, if by an hour you mean 100 hands, making .1 units pretty much sucks lol. Maybe you could play at full tables and really slow it down to 5 or 10 hands an hour lol.

I suppose, if you really wanted to make $100 in 100 hands with a $1000 unit, you could always combine really bad betting with really bad playing in a really bad game to really fool them and still make that $100 in 100 hands eliminating "heat" forever lol.

 

[1357111317]

Yeah the point with only making .1 units an hour is that you would play such a bad game that you would probably be able to get away with it for longer periods of time. Or your right, you could play the worse basic stratagy ever and just spread quite a bit and make yourself look like a ploppy.

 

[Mimosine]

Depending on your particular life style....$1 Million isn't that much money anymore (as far as quitting your job and living large). It's a lot, no doubt, but unless you were really old you'd have a helluva time retiring on it. Health insurance is a bitch, and trying to raise a family with just that would become impossible.

as of 2000, you would need $4 million to never work another day, well and um not live like a hobo. $1million won't generate enough guaranteed interest income.

$4m with a 2.5% apr would yield $100k pre-tax dollars. finding a 2.5% guaranteed APR right now is impossible, but if you have CD ladders established, a 4-5% return was par for the course for the past few years.

$1m would give $25k pre-tax dollars, not enough to live on by any means. EDIT - in california.

 

[Mimosine]

MGM, LVS, and WYNN are all plummeting already too. They are down so far I've been trying to decide if I should buy some.

I started buying WYNN. i'm not sure if it was too early, but i didn't buy a ton either. If casinos start toppling (like they have i.e. station casinoS) and others are falling in line, there are definitely going to be some left amidst the rubble. I'm picking the company that seems to be doing things right. MGM has not been making inspiring decisions lately. WYNN on the other hand, well i won't bore you with the PR crap....