plainplayer
Active Member
Last evening, I went to a casino that's new to me, about 90 minutes' drive away. Enjoyed the time, signed up for their player's club and got a free meal, played some BJ and got a reasonable profit for the time I allotted to it. Chatted a lot with the dealer and one of the PBs, tipped a bit. Friendly, and nice because of it. Got to thinking about the bigger picture on the drive home.
I find I'm curious about the practical expectations of serious players. Up to this point, I've been using BJ as a way to make alternately some bill-paying money or a bit of fun money, and I've been at it for enough months now and have proven to myself that I have genuine understanding, so I'm wondering: Where do those who play BJ regularly/seriously/pick-an-adverb expect to find themselves in terms of rate of return?
I realize that some aren't willing to discuss numbers, either from a general sense of privacy or a concern for not making the extent of their profitability known. But it seems a reasonable guess (if only that) that some people would be willing to tell the more recently-involved among us what you really expect.
Would anyone care to offer straight-up numbers? How big a bank do you operate? How long did it take to build that bank? How much of it do you put into play on any given day (or weekend or week-long trip or ...)? I'm curious about both the serious amateur and the genuine professional; I'm debating with myself about where I should go with what I've learned to do. I've seen bankroll calculators on a couple BJ websites and, to be frank, some of the assumptions they've got look downright peculiar to me.
I find I'm curious about the practical expectations of serious players. Up to this point, I've been using BJ as a way to make alternately some bill-paying money or a bit of fun money, and I've been at it for enough months now and have proven to myself that I have genuine understanding, so I'm wondering: Where do those who play BJ regularly/seriously/pick-an-adverb expect to find themselves in terms of rate of return?
I realize that some aren't willing to discuss numbers, either from a general sense of privacy or a concern for not making the extent of their profitability known. But it seems a reasonable guess (if only that) that some people would be willing to tell the more recently-involved among us what you really expect.
Would anyone care to offer straight-up numbers? How big a bank do you operate? How long did it take to build that bank? How much of it do you put into play on any given day (or weekend or week-long trip or ...)? I'm curious about both the serious amateur and the genuine professional; I'm debating with myself about where I should go with what I've learned to do. I've seen bankroll calculators on a couple BJ websites and, to be frank, some of the assumptions they've got look downright peculiar to me.
