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    Quote Originally Posted by Counting_Is_Fun View Post
    If you have the necessary bankroll it doesn't matter when it comes.
    Yes, that's one of my problems. As table mins increase and 5 dollar tables are becoming rare, I cannot spread e.g. from 5 to 50 dollars at a shoe game anymore with a BR of 5000. It is currently difficult for me to build up a starting BR of 10000 in order to be able to spread from 10 to 100 at a 10 dollar min table.

    Besides, I would come by plane from a foreign country, so I might get into trouble when carrying 10000 or more in cash. I'm considering to create a bank account in the US (don't have one in this country) so I could store part of my BR there till my return, thus never exceeding 10000 on a plane journey. Tax declaration is something different (I anyway have bank accounts in several countries and declare them in my annual tax declaration).
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    [QUOTE=PinkChip;279828]But at least the diagram shows a clear overall upward tendency. My biggest fear is to have a losing streak right at the beginning. Yours was after you had reached a quite comfortable high level.[/QUOTE

    Its a great chart of a highly successful player. It’s kind of like looking at the chart of a pro golfer on the PGA tours, noting that you indeed have a set of golf clubs in your garage, setting out on a career playing golf. Yeah, you might make it to the PGA tour or you might end up as a golf pro at your local country club or a part time golf teacher at the local high school, most likely you would end up playing golf every now and then with a couple of locals, winning bets by beating them. Maybe take a trip or two to play golf in the Bahamas.

    You can’t under estimate the innate talents and characteristics required to be successful long term. I would think your chances at golf are better than your chances at BJ beyond a certain point.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZeeBabar View Post
    I would think your chances at golf are better than your chances at BJ beyond a certain point.
    Ridiculous.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PinkChip View Post
    But at least the diagram shows a clear overall upward tendency. My biggest fear is to have a losing streak right at the beginning. Yours was after you had reached a quite comfortable high level.
    I’ll admit that I ran well around the beginning of my career, but I’ve had plenty of other setbacks since day one. If you look at the graph closer, you’ll see that big almost u-shaped portion of the graph (before the huge spike up)... that portion of the graph represents a 300 hour losing streak. That one was pretty bad too. And not too far behind that, you notice I have one spot that is a complete shot down... that was my single worst losing session. I lost 23K that night. And I know it’s hard to tell because the graph covers a lot of data, but right after I made my first initial upswing that basically started my bankroll (near the beginning of the graph), I lost almost exactly half my bankroll shortly after.

    Also if you take a look at the very very beginning of the graph, this proves the point of my story. If you read early posts of mine when I joined this site, I mentioned that for the first 8 to 10 months, I was probably a break-even player at best. Maybe even a slightly losing player. That small little area in the beginning that’s hovering around the 0 part of the line (right before the sharp upswing) represents 334 hours of play. That’s 334 hours of sitting in a casino and basically having no results to show for it.

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    One thing I’d like to point out about the graph: it’s hard to look at the graph and determine the hours of play. Each movement on the graph represents results input on a spread sheet. So if I played 5 10-hour sessions, vs 50 1-hour sessions, the 50 sessions will take up a larger portion of the graph, vs the 10 hr sessions, despite the fact that they represent an equal amount of time. That’s why the 300 hr losing streak looks longer than the 398. I was playing a lot of short sessions during my 300 streak and I was playing a lot of marathons during the 398 hr streak. Mainly because I had like a couple places that were just giving me a ton of time.

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    Nope zeebabar I stil am an addict so no casino shouldn’t tell me not to play , they should welcome me with open arms.

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    ZeebAbar do you love Tcs, on long 8 deck shoes

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    Quote Originally Posted by Goatlife View Post
    ZeebAbar do you love Tcs, on long 8 deck shoes
    I have never played an 8 deck game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 21forme View Post
    Ridiculous.
    Dont be so modest. If it was easy, there would be a lot more AP’s. You guys have a mental make up and personality factors that make you successful. Given the number of forums, YouTube tutorials, boot camps, books and resources, tables would be full of successful AP’s. They aren’t.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ZeeBabar View Post
    I have never played an 8 deck game.
    Nobody can count an 8D shoe. just too many cards...

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    Fine zeebabar just u like tc on deep penatrated double decks . You get so crazy elevated Tcs on those deep pen games!

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    Quote Originally Posted by 21forme View Post
    Nobody can count an 8D shoe. just too many cards...
    I got banned while playing an 8 deck shoe. (And, no, I wasn't winning.)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ryemo View Post
    One thing I’d like to point out about the graph: it’s hard to look at the graph and determine the hours of play. Each movement on the graph represents results input on a spread sheet. So if I played 5 10-hour sessions, vs 50 1-hour sessions, the 50 sessions will take up a larger portion of the graph, vs the 10 hr sessions, despite the fact that they represent an equal amount of time. That’s why the 300 hr losing streak looks longer than the 398. I was playing a lot of short sessions during my 300 streak and I was playing a lot of marathons during the 398 hr streak. Mainly because I had like a couple places that were just giving me a ton of time.
    How many times were you backed off during this career?

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