MDcounter said:
This is an example of what I'm trying to get at. 145 units for 80 hours..thats 2weeks worth of work... I'm safely assuming you made anywhere between $2,000-$3,500
My point is not to say that counting doesn't make money, but that it can only make so much for the hours played. At most, you will be making as much as someone who makes 75k/year as a career.
If ANYONE can prove me wrong and honestly say they make more than
75k/yr within their first few years of counting, please tell me.
Counting is a tough gig. It's not like the days of yore when single deck, no cut card games were the norm. Millions were made back then, a lot of bones broken too. Everything evolves, gambling, especially gambling against the house, evolves the fastest. Tough to find a single deck game today, even tougher to find a deeply cut SD game. So yes, the possibility of making millions in BJ has decreased 100 fold today. But APs have evolved too, They came out with 6, 8D shoes, APs came out with shuffle tracking. SD and DD got crappier rules, APs came out with ace tracking. Spanish 21? different count technique. So yes, counting alone probably wont get you the millions. counting was invented way back when for the SD games. you gotta add to your arsenal if you want to survive. if you only count against today's games, that's like fighting an f-16 jet with a biplane. Or taking on a tank with a musket. You think a business that lives, and breathes gambling and employs thousands of people since the 1960s is going to be stopped by something invented in the 60s? Even worse, some schmuck that just learned a 60s technique a few days ago in his spare time who thinks he can take on a multi billion dollar industry with millions of employees?
How many jobs out there can someone make $75g with no experience? I can't think of any. I can think of some starting to show up after a few years of experience under the belt, but that still isn't very many. Now let's say you do start making $75g after a few years at this "job," what is the maximum you could ever make at this job? Sky's the limit? or perhaps maybe $100g-150g? I can assure you in BJ that sky's the limit, as long as you're good at it. I'm damn good at my day job, but there is certainly a cap to my salary no matter how hard I work and show success.
Where did you come up with this number of $75g a year is the most one can make at BJ? It sounds completely arbitrary. But I will agree that it is tough to make millions at it today, but it is not impossible. Shiit, why don't you give me an example of an easy way to make millions? Can't think of one can you?
You have gone from saying card counting is a scam that you can't make money, to now putting some sort amount that would make it worthwhile to you. Only you can decide what that amount is and if the risk is worth it. 
