Tempted to spend my BR

[Intermediate]

I put it wrong. Let us just say that my BR is currently at $15K but it has not got lower than $12K in several months and I am tempted to spend $7K of it. Someone suggested moving up to $25 min tables. I am trying but I am not mentally there to put out a max bet of $300+. I have been playing the $10 tables and the most I have been comfortable playing is two hands of about $80 each or one hand of about $125 at TC5+.

Do you recognize that if you reduce your Bank by $7K and continue to bet $10 to 2x$80 you will be playing at a much higher RoR? You would have to reduce your bets to get to the same RoR you have now, and your EV will go way down.

[Pacman]

^ I was actually going to bring up that subject -- "What do you do with your winnings?" or rather, other than making money, what do you use that money for and when do you take it out of your BR?


Pac -- could you REALLY spread $10 to $300 on a double-deck game? Good Lord...

Once upon a time i could
Buutt the game got burned out. Ive been playin there for 4 years (ploppy to AP) so they never give me any heat.
That particular game is now a 25min DD and is 50%pen. Garbage. I dont touch it anymore.
Ps it wasnt me that burned it. I watched a small group of asians raaaavvage the game for awhile. I assumed they were a team. They took alot of cash. But, i probably helped in the burning
oh well, new cash cow else where, but with no BR, i hope it doesnt get burned before i can get back to it!!!

~Pac

[max85]

^ I was actually going to bring up that subject -- "What do you do with your winnings?" or rather, other than making money, what do you use that money for and when do you take it out of your BR?


Pac -- could you REALLY spread $10 to $300 on a double-deck game? Good Lord...

i just jizzed in my pants lol

[Pacman]

i just jizzed in my pants lol

Trust me. Was an amazing game at the time. And since i had been a ploppy there fo 2 years prior they all loved me.
Before it went to $25min it went to $15, they'd let me play 2 hands of 10 instead of the one hand of $15 was sweet. Got grandfathered in anytime someone request the min be raised. Table where min was $50 and im sittin there wit my red lol.
Sigh, good times. Wish i had my ish together. I was just a noob who stumbled on a gold mine.

[BJGenius007]

I have been playing reds for about a year. With a lot of great advice, Dons' BJ3 and such, the BR (I had taken about $1000 and set aside as BR) has grown from $1000 to about $15,000. I still play red chips and while my BR has gone down or up by $2000 , I have $10,000 of my BR hidden away.

Problem is that I get thoughts of using the BR for some luxuries..recently tempted to trade my car for a better car and pay the $7000 difference from my BR.

Its tough to have cash on us and not find reasons to spend it. Its my hardest challenge for now.

I am playing green chips, spreading $25 to $450 on shoe games. I neve took big money (only small money, after a big win, I like to treat my friends for a good meal or buy a laptop for my collection, I have about 30 laptops now, they are all in mint/new condition) from my BJ funds except once. It was going so well. My fund grew from $60,000 to near $100,000 in just a few months. So I took $25K to buy a new car. I don't know if it is a jinx or not, since then, every time I approached $100,000 again, I suffered serious losing streaks to knock me to $50,000 or $60,000 level. The latest one is especially serious, it makes me question if casinos now can sequence cards to make counting worthless. So if I can rewrite the history again, I won't withdraw that $25,000. $2,500 maybe, but not $25,000.

[Timbertom]

I have been playing the $10 tables and the most I have been comfortable playing is two hands of about $80 each or one hand of about $125 at TC5+.

You are smart not to move up to a $25 table, if you are only comfortable of betting up to $160 that is too small of a spread to make money at the $25 tables. So until you are comfortable at betting larger amounts stay at the $10 table. However, your goal should be to move up to the $25 table as the money and rules are better.

[BlackAce]

Somehow I doubt the fact that it has grown from 1-15k solely from playing, and you still view 7k of it as money.

You need to stop doubting. Looks like there is not many Small BR believers here.

[Bodarc]

BlackAce, if you look at the date above people's name, you'll see when they made the post. Smartpart has not posted here in about 2 years.