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I had been trying to find out what a good hourly BJ rate was. My friend appears to be doing $80-100 per hour. It is widely divergent from your numbers. But I believe he steps it up after a while. 8x = $200. He goes beyond this, top bet could be $500, I'll have to ask him. His system is not optimized, which is why I believe that the floor hasn't tagged him as a counter, just lucky.
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$100/hr at a $25 table is an expectation of over 6%. that is simply impossible to maintain in the long term. I also don't buy that your friend openly gets away with a 1-20 spread. while it's true that you can't legally get barred from playing blackjack in AC, any significant black action is going to tagged as "checks play" even at the Borg, and it is next to impossible to bet $500 in a single hand without both the pitboss and surveillance watching that player for the rest of the night. any combination of early shuffles or mediocre cuts will destroy his supposed advantage over the house. you might consider posting these stats to the more experienced players at
www.bj21.com and see what they say.
and no offense to your friend's credibility, but if he's upstairs playing BJ while you're downstairs all night at the poker tables, how can you truly verify each other's results?
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He gets lots of perks with the card. 2-3 free nights in a room. He's been offered free show tickets. Life is good when you're beating the house and they want you back!
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um, any old lady who plays quarter slots can get free rooms and show tickets. these cost the casino next to nothing to give to the player. free liquor and limo rides, then we'll investigate further.
this last statement you made shows how green you guys are about the casino business. congrats on your short-term luck, but don't try preaching to others about some new "system" you friend has created, when you don't have any tangible data to back it up.