You say you have to play a lot when you make the trip. I have often said I make more money when playing less and described how to make more money with much less exposure. Some were clueless about how that could be but maybe you are starting to get it. You needed to play a certain number of rounds to get your trip certainty up for your results. The higher the percentage of quality rounds in the mix the higher the EV and the fewer the rounds it takes to reach a desired degree of certainty for your results. The casino will tolerate only so much playing time. You need to get the rounds in and don't really care about playing time other than the time needs to be less than their tolerance threshold. Selectively choose your spots for when and where to play to meet all these requirements in the time you are tolerated. I doubt you make any attempt to swing the percentages of quality rounds played in the least amount of time played toward what is best for you. So you have massive exposure and poor quality of rounds played rather than little exposure while getting in more rounds and in particular more quality rounds played for your trip. You probably just go to the casino and plop down at whatever table meets your fancy and play until you leave. That will really hurt the quality of your play.

Read Don's book. I am talking every chapter very slowly. Then think it isn't about using the info for maximizing EV. The information should be used to maximize your effectiveness while minimizing your exposure at the same time. When you figure out how to do this you will produce more EV and have a higher degree of certainty for your results when you play less time. Less time means less exposure. Less exposure means more longevity. More longevity means making more money. So many AP's are focused on the wrong goals and don't maximize their efficiency at making money for the amount of exposure their play produces. Their approach is best for computer play but is shortsighted when it comes to live casino play.