Blackjack vs Poker

[lwlee]

Which one has the better profit potential with least amount of effort?

A friend of mine plays $25 min BJ at Borgata, six deck shoe, and routinely takes home $1000 or more a weekend. Of course, he card counts.

I play the $3-5 NL game at Borgata, my usual take home might be double my buy-in, about $300-400 for the weekend.

I feel that more or less these 2 games are at the same level, $25 min BJ is lowest you can play on a weeknight or weekend. $3-5 NL is a moderate NL game at the Borgata.

There are a number of advantages with BJ card counting,
- playing against the house with set rules, you only need to play the odds, no deception involved like bluffing in poker. Alright, you need to do a little of "bluffing" like blowing off some money so they don't label you a counter but that's not as difficult as calling an all-in bluff.

- my friend got his black Borgata card after like 10 weekend sessions, perhaps a total of 80 hours. You need 1000 hours of playing poker before you'll get the card.

Been reading Knockout Blackjack, doesn't seem particularly difficult to master. In fact my friend doesn't even take card counting seriously, he picked it up from another friend and his system is not rigorous at all. Still he beats the game fairly well.