Originally Posted by
ZeeBabar
BJ is a game where you can quickly discover your limits.
I had been driving a car, racing in streets, thinking I was one hell of a driver until I ran into a few pros. In th off season, I had my car, back when they allowed you to do it, I found myself at the Indy 500 and I tried myself out, found my limits at about 120 mph, I did go up as high as 135-140 for a round but never got comfortable, sweating, nervous, and quit, moved back to lesser speeds.
In BJ too, after getting counting and indexes down, even with a significant BR, I was real comfortable with a minimum $25 game and a $250 max bet. However, when I tried the $50 minimum game, the extra heat, bets over $300 and the stress started getting to me. I knew the idea of playing blacks, of having $1000 on a single hand, losing more than $3000 plus in a single session was not something I could ever get comfortable with and thus dropped the whole idea of significant income from BJ.
Now, after all these years, the best year was where I made $38k after expenses with all others being under $20k, more often around $10k. Good enough for me. I remain a recreational player.
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