Zee, there's a lot of options you have. KJ always promotes a lot of "free cover" as I like to call it... Shorter sessions, smaller buy-in's, rotate different shifts/stores, etc. Your betting level will really determine which steps you need to take. Do you mind sharing what your spread normally is? If you're $10-$100, there's a lot less you need to worry about than if you're $100-$500.
Another idea, that I at least think is great, if your BR can withstand... go UP in limit but then REDUCE your spread. So instead of spreading $10-$120 (1:12), play $25-$150 (1:6) on shoe games. You'll find doing this (if you do it right) usually up's your EV and with the dampened spread should bring less heat. With that, I'd also recommend NOT playing single/DD games if you plan to play these places for years and years.
You can then use this extra EV for "cover with a cost" if you so choose... Such as a complete "play through" approach, or something. This way you can also use your card, which I would "probably" recommend you do. I've used a card at my local joint for about 5 years now. Of course I'm much more "friendly" with my action there since it is my local joint and I don't want to burn it, but I get a lot of good comps from them for here and especially for Vegas/other places. If you get picked off after years and years of card play + comps... Then take some time off and you can probably start playing without a card (or with someone else's
).
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