Hi everyone. I'm a total amateur who loves playing BJ online, but only for fun. I have nevertheless found considerable success in online BJ games using a "ploppy" pseudo-strategy that looks like this:

- Start off betting $5 a hand and use basic strategy.
- Get a "feel" for the game and don't change my bet until I have lost two or three consecutive hands.
- Then, based on the notion of "regression to the mean" I spread my bet from $5 to $50. It is very rare, in my experience, to lose four consecutive hands when using solid Basic Strategy.
- However, If I do lose the hand for $50, then I immediately wager $100 on my next hand (it is even more rare to lose five consecutive hands in a row).

What do you all think about this approach? It's clearly not a legitimate AP move, but it seems to work. Has anyone here ever tried using this approach long-term? Does it always result in gambler's ruin? Or could the "regression to the mean" principle be used as a legitimate basis for bet-spreading?