I feel that a positive betting progression or a (controled) negative progression has numerious benifits. At the very least changing up your bets with a progression will give you cover for counting. And every shoe has a trend because of the flow of different value cards and the rate of change of the count, so basing your bet soley on the count can hurt (for example a high count tanking to fast so you end up losing most of your large bets). Also, why not take advantage of a winning or losing streak to maximize session outcome.

With keeping an open mind does anybody else with knowledge of this game agree with any of this.