Okay, let me try to explain a situation. I started playing a local 2 deck game about 6 months ago, ramping from 10 to 250 pretty rapidly using HiLo. I first banged my head up against some negative variance and got down over 3000, but kept renewing my bankroll and trying again. Well, now I've gotten it all back and am up several thousand. My bet ramp now though is 20-250 on 2 spots.

To the point, I've been playing over 200 hours with this play and some of the dealers make comments that tell me that they know I'm counting.. but they let it continue. Casinos here get paid from an ante, not from the actual money taken from players. The money they win goes to a player pool and they track the antes and pay them out of the player pool. Do you think that they possibly just don't care because they get to take from the player pool just because of my action, or do you think that I will eventually be backed off? The floor people are all very friendly to me and don't flinch when the dealer yells black action or table max. They even come watch in a way where they seem to rout for me a little bit. Rarely do they call surveillance. It seems to me they've had plenty of opportunity to get rid of me, what makes me worry now is that the winning is coming around and the house is down. Two questions for those who have possibly been in similar situations: Should I expect an eventual back off? If you think I should, should I milk all I can from the game because I know the people well enough that they won't forget? Many give advice to spread your play, but I don't live in an area saturated with blackjack options. I have switched to ReKo, but that's not very relevant to the questions. Should I raise my minimum to say $50, or would it be a waste of EV?